Mircea the Elder | Martyria

Studia Humanitatis No. II (XVI) / 2023 The tomb of Teofana, mother of Mihai Viteazul, at Cozia 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 (XV) / 2023 Mircea the Elder – a prince of Christendom and his legacy Sergiu Iosipescu, Raluca Iosipescu

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 Wallachia was a Crusader principality covering an area of over 100,000 km², that Dobruja was not lost during his reign, and that there is no evidence that Mircea paid tribute to the Ottomans.