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Acest scurt studiu aduce în atenție evoluția predării și practicii muzicale în cadrul colegiului unitarian din Cluj în perioada secolelor XVI–XIX. De la interdicția instrumentelor muzicale și a cântatului indecent la permisiunea treptată a practicii muzicale în incinta colegiului și introducerea predării muzicii, evoluția reflectă schimbările sociale și culturale din acele vremuri. Muzica a devenit, în cele din urmă, o parte acceptată și chiar integrată în viața colegiului, marcând o tranziție importantă în percepția și practica muzicală în colegiul unitarian din Cluj și comunitatea unitariană din Transilvania.

In his 1583 ritual entitled Agendarius, which was innovative in many respects in comparison to its Hungarian predecessors, Bishop Miklós Telegdi of Pécs, the administrator of the diocese of Esztergom, added sample-like sermons to the rituals of the administration of the sacraments accompanying the great turning points of life (viz. baptism, confirmation, wedding etc.). He was presumably guided chiefly by pastoral considerations. For the second edition of 1596 (published after Telegdi’s death), the editors added a second funeral sermon, clearly intended for a more educated, urban audience – judging from the scholarly Latin quotations and the general tone. A comparison of the structure and content of the two speeches provides useful conclusions as to what the ecclesiastical authorities of the time considered advisable to preach at the time of death to mourners lacking basic schooling and what to the more learned audience.

My study approaches Unitarian sermon literature from the perspective of church discipline. There are several reasons for this: 1) Historical records of reception are scarce because in the early modern age, only a handful of Unitarian sermons could be published. 2) it was uncommon among Unitarian preachers to use theoretical works (ars concionandi/praedicandi) until the end of the 17th century, they learned instead by observing the written and oral practices of their colleagues. 3) Because of the medium of the manuscript, most early modern Unitarian sermons did not survive beyond the 17th–18th century. Therefore, in our exploration of the rules and ideals of sermon literature as well as the attitudes of followers, preachers, and schoolmasters to the genre, we are forced to rely on inferences based on the norms, especially the offences recorded in (ecclesiastical) court protocols.

A carmina gratulatoria hebraica, vagyis a héber köszöntővers a reformáció megerősödése és egyben első megpróbáltatásai idejének, valamint a református felsőoktatás hazai kezdeti korszakának tiszavirág-életű irodalmi műfaja. Miután a külföldi egyetemjárás kiszélesedett, és a magyar hallgatókat fogadták az angliai és az újonnan alapított németalföldi egyetemeken, az 1598 és 1717 közötti időszakban külhonban a német, holland, angol, svájci és lengyel egyetemeken, valamint hazai kollégiumokban születtek magyar teológus hallgatók tollából egymás tudományos disputái vagy doktori védései alkalmából héber köszöntőversek. A héber-nyelv-tudás, a költészet és a teológia hármasa ötvöződik ezekben a versekben. A tehetségen kívül az oktatási és tudományos háttér volt számukra segítségül. Áttekintve az ötvennégy magyar carmeníró pedigréjét, legtöbbjük három hazai kollégium hallgatói közül került ki, illetve oktatói közé tartozott a későbbiekben: Sárospatak, Debrecen és Nagyvárad.

Antonina de Gerando apja oldaláról egy francia nemes családtól származik, anyja oldalán a híres gróf Teleki családtól. Ebben a második tiszteletben a harmadik nagy nevelője (Brunswick Teréz) és anyja nővére (Teleki Blanka) követte a harmadik oktatót. Franciaországban tanult, és ott tanult diplomáját.