{"title":"The Asian and Balkan Background of Draculia’s Wallachian Restoration (1473-1474)","authors":"I. Pop, A. Simon","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2021-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2021-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Roughly a week before Ali Mihaloğlu, bey of Vidin and Smederevo, raided Oradea (February 7-8, 1474), the royal link between Hungary proper and the Voivodate of Transylvania, the Commune of Ragusa, equally vassal to Ottoman sultan Mehmed II and to Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, informed the Venetian doge, Nicolò Marcello, her Adriatic neighbour, about the most recent developments at the Porte, as well as both at the Porte’s Asian and European borders (January 31, 1474). From the latest news on Usun Hassan, still viewed by some as Christendom’s main anti-Ottoman hope (in spite of the crippling losses he had suffered in August 1473), Ragusa moved on – in her message to Venice (earlier Usun’s main supporter) – to the combats in Vlachia Maior (Wallachia proper), recently invaded by Stephen III the Great of Moldavia (November 8-30, 1473). The information had likewise been provided by the Ragusan envoys to the Porte, who had just returned to the Adriatic, after departing from Constantinople (Istanbul) on December 28, 1473. With Venice waging an increasingly desperate war against Mehmed II (for ten years and counting), the task of conveying Ottoman inside information was very delicate for tribute paying Ragusa.The Ragusan message is the only extant known source to state that Stephen III the Great had won Wallachia from Radu III the Handsome for the benefit of Vlad III the Impaller. The rest of the known sources (however chronicles, not documents) claim that Stephen enthroned Basarab III Laiotă as ruler of Wallachia (Laiotă was his Wallachian ruler of choice until autumn 1474).Ragusa’s Venetian message bluntly contradicts the known contemporary data on Stephen III’s intervention in Wallachia in November 1473 and on the subsequent events, data preserved only in the chronicles of Stephen III (chiefly in the Moldavian-German Chronicle intended for Habsburg subjects, around 1499-1500) and in the writings of Jan Długosz (notoriously hostile towards the Hunyadis).","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131663941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Luca, Raluca Maria Teodorescu, Florentin Perianu
{"title":"Some data about an early neolithic worship place","authors":"S. Luca, Raluca Maria Teodorescu, Florentin Perianu","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2021-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2021-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article we will partially analyze the place of worship consisting of 7 structures discovered following preventive research on the A1 highway, Sibiu – Pitești sector, Part 5, Curtea de Argeș-Pitești. The discoveries are part from site 2, surface 11.","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"52 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120919117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Up and down. From Inner Curvature to Northern Wallachia and back during the 5th millennium BC","authors":"D. Buzea, Daniel Garvan, Stănică Pandrea","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2021-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2021-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The rescue research carried out within the site Olteni - Sand Quarry (Site B), between 2005-2012, highlighted the existence of a settlement with dwelling features belonging to the cultures of Linear Pottery, Boian-Giuleşti and Precucuteni, phase I. In this study we present the anthropomorphic figurines attributed to the early Eneolithic discovered in this site, while discussing also the archaeological and chronological contexts from which they originate","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128284500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mother Ranaldi: a post-paleolithic goddess gives birth flanked by supernatural stags","authors":"M. Merlini","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2021-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2021-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Birth was one of the most magical, miraculous, and blessed events of post-paleolithic spirituality. The Mesolithic - Early Neolithic rock art paintings of the Ranaldi Shelter (Southern Italy) give distinct visual evidence to a universal subject: the woman during childbirth and the wild animal which, given the context data, is the adult male red deer. The pivotal personage of the drama, Mother Ranaldi, shares her iconographic canon with the Goddess of Childbirth in prehistoric art. She is a majestic, naked, corpulent and fertile anthropomorph who is delivering a new life between her generous thighs. The depiction of the newborn’s head emerging from the vagina emphasizes her female power to procreate. Mother Ranaldi is birthing flanked by two adult stags which she touches with her sacred hands. They are not ordinary animals. Their supernatural nature is described by three features: exaggerated unnatural antlers, clear epiphanic seasonal nature, and bicephalism. They were symbol of worship to the Goddess of Generation, acting as her paredri (supporting, assisting partners). Ranaldi Shelter was used during the seasonal relocation of cervids, which in spring moved from the plains to the summer mountainous ranges. Then, the red paintings had not only a sacred value. Having totemic nature, they carried out a territorial function by contributing to organize and mark the territory, possibly associated with appropriate rituals.","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115866726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Dragula to Cypelles: Wallachia in the Late 1470s","authors":"A. Simon","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2021-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2021-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For Pope Pius II, Vlad was John Dragula and his cruelty completed the lamented fate of the Wallachians, Rome’s Eastern forgotten children, still capable of finding recovery and redemption, Vlad included, under the authority of Matthias, the king of Hungary and of Dacia (according to the same pope). Basarab IV, Cypelles for Beatrice of Aragon, that is either “Little Impaller” or “Little Shoemaker”, seems to have been quite the opposite, though otherwise his and Vlad’s “career choices” were quite similar: Vlad went from pro-Ottoman to pro-Hungarian, “chosing” West over East, and Basarab turned from pro-Hungarian to pro-Ottoman, inheriting also Mara Branković’s “medial” stand between West and East, that favoured a pro-Ottoman status-quo at the borders of divided Christendom. Their short “joint-rule” over Wallachia, turned into Christendom’s trench by King Matthias, Christendom’s hope, and Stephen of Moldavia, the athlete of Christendom, is eloquent for the bi-polar survival of a divided state that gradually came to a – temporary – end once both Ţepeş and Ţepeluş were gone. This occurred under the rules of Vlad IV Călugărul, a former monk, Vlad’s half-brother, and of his son, Radu IV the Great, an “agent” of Venice and of the Porte. At that time, the Greek rite Brankovićs were still barons of the realm of Saint Stephen, as well as “registered voters” at the royal Hungarian elections of 1490, the year that stands for both the end of Matthias’ plans and hopes for his son’s monarchic survival and in fact – in early modern Wallachian chronicles – for the end of Stephen III’s 16/ 17 years of rule over Wallachia.","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122686579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Rudimentary and Artistic: Decorated Starčevo-Criș Pots","authors":"Anamaria Tudorie","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2020-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2020-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article presents new information regarding the percentual distribution of Starčevo-Criș decorated pottery, using the information on the Early Neolithic discoveries from the sites of Miercurea Sibiului-Petriș (Sibiu County), Turdaș-Luncă (Hunedoara County), Săliștea (Alba County), Cristian I (Sibiu County) and Cristian III (Sibiu County). Excepting Miercurea Sibiului-Petriș and Cristian I sites for which, besides the information about the category, color, temper, surface treatment, firing and morphology of this pottery were published in different volumes or articles, also some data regarding the different percentages on types of ornaments were published. This time, the author discusses globally the total amount of decorated pottery, taking into consideration also the relative chronological framings for each of the sites","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133459496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Luca, G. Rustoiu, Florentin Perianu, Sergiu Chideșa, T. Sava, D. Păceșilă, O. Gâza, I. Stanciu, G. Sava, Bianca Ștefan
{"title":"Absolute Dating of the Systematic Excavation from 2019 of the Archaeological Site: Tărtăria-Gura Luncii (Alba County, Romania)","authors":"S. Luca, G. Rustoiu, Florentin Perianu, Sergiu Chideșa, T. Sava, D. Păceșilă, O. Gâza, I. Stanciu, G. Sava, Bianca Ștefan","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2020-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2020-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The systematic research started in 2010 at Tărtăria continue to this day. To clarify the problem of the absolute chronology of the site we have researched on a checkered row (Carriage 25-32) from the SI surface (2019) and carried out sampling for this operation. On this occasion we obtained the evidence published in this article.","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127685692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ritual deposits of the Petrești culture in South-Western Transylvania","authors":"S. Luca","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2020-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2020-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article resents archaeological discoveries of ritual pits framed in Petrești culture, discovered in western and south-western Transylvania. The ritual of consecrating the dwellings, through banquets dedicated to fertility and fecundity, is so well known at the time around the Apuseni Mountains that is spreads in cultural environments, west of them.","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"305 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123244457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Central Area of a“ Square” from the Time of Turdaș Culture Turdaș-Luncă. 2011 Campaign. Sector C The Architectural Horizon before the great Migration from Turdaș","authors":"Florentin Perianu","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2020-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2020-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The preventive excavation from 2011, at Turdaș-Luncă, led to the discovery of over 2000 archaeological features. Among them is feature 959. Through this article we want to continue the series of publications related to the preventive excavation of 2011 and highlight certain aspects related to a possible organization of the communities that lived here.","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123542429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the Turn of the Fourteenth Century: Sigismund of Luxemburg and the Wallachian Princely “Stars” of the Fifteenth Century","authors":"A. Simon","doi":"10.2478/actatr-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/actatr-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In late spring 1398, the noble judges of the Inner Szolnok County rejected John Toth as the legal representative of Stephen I, voivode of Moldavia. Toth (i.e. the Slav/ Slovak, chiefly in later centuries) was in fact merely the procurator of Stephen’s appointed procurator (representative), a certain John, the son of Costea. Mircea I the Elder, the voivode of Wallachia, was experiencing similar legal problems at the time in the Voivodate of Tran-sylvania. In January 1399, his procurator, Nicholas Dobokai of Luduş, the son of Ladislas Dobokai (the relative of Mircea’s step-uncle, Wladislaw I Vlaicu), had to admit he did not know the exact boundaries of the estate of the Hunyad castle, recently granted by Sigismund of Luxemburg to Mircea. The two documents, almost trivial in essence, point towards two neglected issues: the first Transylvanian estates granted by a king of Hungary to a voivode of Moldavia and to the transalpine origins of the Hunyadi family. Placed in the context of other edited and unedited sources (charters and chronicles), the documents in question provide new perspectives on the beginnings and actions of famed Wallachian personalities of the next century.","PeriodicalId":224241,"journal":{"name":"Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130775716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}