Radu Mihnea | Martyria

Studia Theologica No. I (V) / 2018 Iconographic miniatures on documents from Wallachia, 17th–19th centuries Dr. Oana-Mădălina Popescu

Princely charters from Wallachia adorned with iconographic miniatures of saints — issued between 1614 and 1819 by rulers such as Radu Mihnea, Matei Basarab, Alexandru Moruzi and Manuil Ruset — are examined here as official historical documents whose artistic form and textual content must be read together. The study identifies the patron saints depicted, the monasteries and institutions benefiting from the grants, and the Byzantine pictorial conventions followed, revealing a Christian conception of princely governance that persisted through the Phanariot period.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (V) / 2018 Bishop Theophilus of Râmnic, a distinguished hierarch of the Church of Vâlcea (I) Rev. Dr. Laurențiu Rădoi

Bishop Teofil II of Râmnic (c. late 16th century – 1637) is portrayed as a leading figure in Romanian Orthodox monasticism during the first half of the 17th century: a former abbot of Bistrița Monastery, hierarch of the diocese on the right bank of the Olt, and an active participant in the diplomatic and synodal life of Wallachia, he campaigned for the introduction of the Romanian language into church services and supported the consolidation of ecclesiastical properties, leaving numerous documentary traces in the charters of the time.