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# {1-773.} INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH EDITION

On the rationale for further research into the history of Transylvania, see István Rácz, 'Történetírói lehetőség és kötelesség', Zsigmond Pál Pach, 'Miért írunk Erdély történetét?', and Károly Irinyi, 'Tudatcsere kellene', in Tanulmányok Erdély történetéről, ed. by István Rácz (Debrecen, 1988), cited hereafter as TET. For the Romanian criticism, see 'The Conscious Forgery of History under the Aegis of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences', The Times (London), 7 April 1987; Norman Stone's review article appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, 2 October 1987.

The History of Transylvania was assessed at a historians' conference in October 1987; the conference material was published in TET.

Studies of the Saxons' origins have appeared both in Hungary and abroad. Among foreign studies, see, in particular, Konrad Schünemann, Die mittelalterliche deutsche Kolonisation (Viert., 1934) and Günther Franz, Geschichte des bauernstandes vom frühen Mittelalter bis zum 19 Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1970).

Studies on the origins of the Romanians focus on two basic and related themes, the so-called Daco-Roman theory of continuity and the location of their original homeland. The Daco-Roman theory finds full application in Constantin Daicoviciu, Stefan Pascu, et al., Din Istoria Transilvaniei I-II (Bucharest, 1964), published in Hungarian as Erdély története, ed. by Miron Constantinescu (Bucharest, 1964). This work continues to serve as a valid reference on the Romanian approach to some key questions, for the line taken in Romanian historiography has not changed since its publication. On the evolution of the Daco-Roman theory, see Gábor Vékony 'The theory of Daco-Romanian Continuity; The origin of the Romanians and the settlement of Transylvania' (The New Hungarian Quarterly, XXIX: 110, Summer 1988). The text of the 1791 petition can be found in Supplex Libellus Valachorum, trans. by Károly Köllő (Bucharest, 1971). Recent Romanian works on the question of ethnic origins include L. Bârzu, A román nép anyagi és szellemi műveltségének folytonossága az egykori Dacia területén (Bucharest, 1981) and Ion I. Russu, Etnogeneza românilor (Bucharest, 1981).

Research on the Jews of Transylvania was reinvigorated in 1990, when two scholarly conferences were held in Cluj/Kolozsvár; the conference {1-774.} material was published in Studia Judaica, ed. by Ladislau Gyémánt, Pompiliu Teodor, and Maria Radosav (Cluj-Napoca, 1991).

The cited Romanian works on Gypsy history are Georgi Potra, Contributioni la istoricul tiganilor din România (Bucharest, 1939), and Joana Ursu and Valeriu Budunu, 'Tiganii: Un popor îsi cauta istoria' (Magazin Istoric 1-4). The data on the number of Gypsies in 1786, published originally in H. M. G. Grellmann, Historischer Versuch über die Zigeuner (Göttingen, 1786).