Nicolae Iorga | Martyria

Studia Humanitatis No. II (XX) / 2025 Where did Bishop Climent of Râmnic (1735–1749) stay when he took refuge in the Lotru Mountains? Fr. Nicolae Moga

Bishop Climent of Râmnic (head of the diocese between 1735 and 1748) is examined in the context of the Austro-Russian-Turkish War of 1737–1739, when he took refuge in the Lotru Mountains and the episcopal residence was burnt down by the Turks. A Holy Gospel printed in 1746 and donated to the church in Voineasa suggests that the village in the Lotru Valley was his place of refuge during his exile.

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. II (XII) / 2021 Bishop Antim Petrescu — the shortest tenure in the See of Râmnic (II) Rev. Dr. Laurențiu Rădoi

Bishop Antim Petrescu of Râmnic (1918–1919), elected in July 1918 and dismissed by government decree in November of the same year, carried out an intensive pastoral ministry in Oltenia, visiting parishes, supporting the construction and renovation of churches, and taking an active interest in the social issues facing the peasantry and war orphans, and leaving behind the memory of a self-sacrificing hierarch, as recalled by Nicolae Iorga, Gala Galaction and Archimandrite Iuliu Scriban.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XI) / 2021 Through Asia Minor Dan Ciachir

The article retraces a journey through Malta, Asia Minor and Constantinople, following the sites where the first Christian communities were established and where ecumenical councils were held: Ephesus, site of the Third Ecumenical Council; Myra in Lycia, home of Saint Nicholas; and Tarsus, home of Saint Paul. The geographical landscape and historical remains provide an opportunity for reflections on the connection between space and the understanding of faith, in the spirit of Nicolae Iorga’s method.

Studia Theologica No. I (VIII) / 2019 The election of Bishop Sofronie Vulpescu to the see of the Diocese of Râmnic (1913–1918) Rev. Dr. Laurențiu Rădoi

Bishop Sofronie Vulpescu of Râmnic, the only Romanian hierarch imprisoned by German authorities during the First World War, is the subject of this study, which reconstructs his life and ecclesiastical career from his birth in 1856 in Lupșanu to his enthronement as Bishop of Râmnic-Noul Severin in 1913, drawing on speeches, reports, and contemporary accounts, including critical remarks by Nicolae Iorga and Tudor Arghezi.

Theatrum No. III (VII) / 2018 On the way to Iași Ivona Boitan

The play depicts the drama of two sisters, Aglaia and Zenovia, who walled up their sons — Radu and Alexandru — to save them from the front during the First World War. A visit from a general triggers a confrontation over sacrifice, cowardice, love of country and a mother’s love, and the finale depicts irreversible choices: Radu leaves for the front, Alexandru hides in the forest, Zenovia becomes a nun, and Aglaia takes her own life.

Studia Theologica No. III (VII) / 2018 Orthodoxy: a driving force for the unity and continuity of the Romanian people Associate Professor Dr Ion Marian Croitoru

Orthodoxy is the defining feature of the Romanian identity, as their ethnogenesis and Christianisation were concurrent processes, and the synthesis of Latin culture and Orthodoxy protected them from Slavic assimilation, heresies and denationalisation. This study analyses the role of the Church, the printing press, Christian Humanism and the theocratic conception in maintaining unity of faith, language and nation in Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania.

Studia Theologica No. III (VII) / 2018 The legislative proposal of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church of 19 November 1924, concerning the establishment of a school of Byzantine ecclesiastical painting Professor, PhD Mihael Palade

The study traces the stages in the institutionalisation of education in Byzantine ecclesiastical painting in Romania, from the Holy Synod’s decision of 1889 regarding the preservation of the Byzantine style, through the 1926 Law for the Protection of Ancient Ecclesiastical Paintings and the establishment of a school for painters, to the establishment of the Higher School of Ecclesiastical Art in 1940 and the first academic specialisations after 1989, demonstrating that the initiative consistently lay with the Romanian Orthodox Church.

Studia Humanitatis No. III (VII) / 2018 1 December 1918 – the ‘birth certificate’ of Greater Romania Dragoş-Ionuţ Ecaterinescu

On the occasion of the centenary in 2018, this article looks back at the stages leading up to the Great Union of 1 December 1918, from the union of Bessarabia and Bukovina with Romania to the Great National Assembly at Alba Iulia, where over 100,000 Romanians voted for the union of Transylvania with Romania, through the testimonies of Ilie Mișcuția, Nicolae Iorga and Vasile Goldiș.

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.

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