SPIRITUAL AND SOCIAL UNIVERSE OF 16TH CENTURY TRANSYLVANIA

Sketch of the Transylvanian history, Political and Confessional situation in 16th century Transylvania, Image of the other: external visions of the ethnic and confessional models of 16th century Transylvania, Self- image upon ethnic origin and identity, Personalities with double, triple or multiple ethic-confessional identity, Cultural Transylvanian models in the protestant Reform century, New cultural marks in the Carpathian border, the Humanistic and religious education of the Germans and Hungarians - between the byzantine, Latin and protestant horizon, Jesuit missions and the superior education of counteracting the Reform and to influence the Orthodox. The 16th century is one of the most eruptive, tense and agitated segment from the history of the last millennium within the European context.\n All these travellers although usually employed in a mission with precise goals, like the conclusion of interstate agreements, the collection of vital strategic information, contracting or sale of specific products, the achievement of some military goals or enrolment of new ad majorem Dei gloriam proselytes and were not part of the category of contemplative or pensive nature, they captured simultaneously, superficially or in detail the landscapes, habits, crafts and calamities in the environment they crossed and most of the times they did not omit to record the massive demographic presence in the principality of the majority of Romanians who spoke a vernacular, Latin language related to Italian9.