Mircea the Elder | 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 (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.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (V) / 2018 Grand Voivode, Duke and Despot: Mircea I, the founder of the country Academician, University Professor, Dr Răzvan Theodorescu

The reign of Mircea the Elder is analysed as the founding era of medieval Romanian civilisation, characterised by four defining features: political realism reflected in his territorial titles, the cultural synthesis between the Gothic West, Palaeologan Byzantium and Arab-Turkish Islam; spiritual tolerance, illustrated by his sheltering of Sheikh Bedreddin of Samavna and Bulgarian refugees; and the aesthetic Romanity highlighted by the balanced architecture of Cozia, in contrast to the exuberance of contemporary Moravian places of worship.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (III) / 2017 Letter III. Archaic Patterns of Conflict (Part Three) Nae Georgescu

Mihai Eminescu's poem centering on Mircea the Elder and Bayezid is analyzed through the lens of Aeschylean hubris theory, tracing how the sultan's transgression of cosmic boundaries — marked by the Danube as a symbolic limes — triggers the reversal of his own heraldic signs and attributes. The study demonstrates how cleidomancy, symmetrical imagery, and elemental animism structure the poem's deeper argument: that Mircea, as instrument of universal order, restores the cosmic equilibrium shattered by Ottoman expansion.

Studia Humanitatis No. II (II) / 2016 LETTER III. Archaic Patterns of Conflict (II) Nae Georgescu

The study analyses the sources and poetic technique in Eminescu’s ‘Letter III’, examining how the Herodotean motifs of Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes, as filtered through Jordanes and Aeschylus, structure Mircea’s address to Bayezid as an apotropaic formula, whilst key terms such as ‘towering’, ‘tree’, ‘earth’ and ‘water’ are stylistically adapted to turn the invader’s symbols against him.

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