PANDEMIE ȘI ETATIZARE LA FRONTIERA ESTICĂ A TRANSILVANIEI, ÎN SECOLUL STĂPÂNIRII HABSBURGICE.

The present study attempts to provide an integrative overview of the role that the centralizing policies of the Viennese court over sanitary matters had on the establishment of border regiments in Transylvania. The study begins with an analysis of an unpublished archival material that tells of the outbreak of a plague epidemic in Transylvania in the autumn of 1770. In the second part, the focus is directed towards the specific ideas of the 18th century and the impact they had on the Habsburgs’ reformist health policy. The last part of the study is devoted to the reasons that led to the establishment of the Transylvanian border regiments and their role in preventing plague epidemics in the second half of the 18th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]