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The reign of Mircea the Elder (1386–1418) is critically re-examined in relation to Petre P. Panaitescu’s 1944 monograph and the academic treatise Istoria Românilor, vol. IV (2012), demonstrating that…

The Cetățuia Hermitage, north of Râmnicu Vâlcea, possibly founded by Bessarabian patrons in the 15th–16th centuries, is examined from archaeological, historical and monastic perspectives, with a…

The Byzantine icon is analysed from the perspectives of theology, history and aesthetics, beginning with the iconoclastic controversy of the 8th–9th centuries and the dogmatic arguments put forward…

The article recounts the enthronement of Metropolitan Antonie of Transylvania in Sibiu on 7 February 1982, offering a memorable portrait of Patriarch Iustin Moisescu: his address at the agape banquet…

The article analyses the terms ‘luminare’ and ‘lumânare’ in Eminescu’s poetry, demonstrating that the editorial modernisations carried out by Titu Maiorescu, Perpessicius and others have distorted…

The article traces the history of the Orthodox Church’s organisation in the Romanian territories, from the defence of Academician Răzvan Theodorescu’s thesis on the pre-schismatic Latin character of…

Nun Teofana (Teodora), mother of Mihai Viteazul, spent the final years of her life at Cozia Monastery, where she received news of her son’s triumphs and death; she bequeathed the villages of Frăsinet…

The documents presented consist of six appendices dating from 1841–1855, which illustrate the administrative and legal activities of Saint Calinic in his capacity as abbot of Cernica Monastery, as…

The author recounts his visit to Malta in April 1990 – his first trip to the West following the fall of communism – as part of the ‘Voices from the East’ seminar organised by AZAD. He describes the…