Dimitrie Bolintineanu | Martyria

Studia Humanitatis No. II (XVI) / 2023 The tomb of Teofana, mother of Mihai Viteazul, at Cozia Prof. Dr. Florin Epure

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 and Studenița to the monastery, and passed away in the Lord in 1605/1606, being buried in the narthex of the main church, beside the tomb of Mircea the Elder.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (I) / 2016 Mircea the Great. In the run-up to a commemoration Dan Zamfirescu

The article calls for the restoration of the historical image of Mircea the Great ahead of the January 2018 commemoration marking six centuries since his death, refuting the argument put forward in the article by Marius Diaconescu published in the journal Historia. It traces the stages of the historiographical debate concerning the voivode’s epithet, from Dimitre Onciul to recent efforts to canonise the founder of Cozia.