Daniela Marcu Istrate, Dan Ioan Muresan, and Gabriel Tiberiu Rustoiu (Volume editors), Christianization in Early Medieval Transylvania. A Church Discovered in Alba Iulia and its Interpretations, Brill, East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 Series, Vol. 83, 524 p., 2022.
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Who built the older, Byzantine-style church, and what was the political, religious and cultural context of the church? How does this new discovery affect our perception of the ecclesiastical history of Transylvania? A new reading of the archaeological and historical record prompted by these questions is presented here, thereby opening up new challenges for further research. Contributors are: Daniela Marcu Istrate, Florin Curta, Horia I. Ciugudean, Aurel Dragotă, Monica-Elena Popescu, Călin Cosma, Tudor Sălăgean, Jan Nicolae, Dan Ioan Mureșan, Alexandru Madgearu, Gábor Thoroczkay, Éva Tóth-Révész, Boris Stojkovski, Șerban Turcuș, Adinel C. Dincă, Mihai Kovács, Nicolae Călin Chifăr, Marius Mihail Păsculescu, and Ana Dumitran. More informations can be found on the publisher’s website. |
Table of contents
- Introduction
Gabriel Tiberiu Rustoiu
Part 1: Archaeological Debates
- From the Greek Bishop Hierotheos to the Latin Bishop Simon: The Churches in Alba Iulia and the Controversies Related to the Beginnings of the Diocese of Transylvania
Daniela Marcu Istrate
- Bulgaria beyond the Danube: Water under the Bridge, or Is There More in the Pipeline?
Florin Curta
- The Transylvanian Cradle: The Funeral Landscape of Alba Iulia in the Light of ‘Stația de Salvare’ Cemetery (9th–11th Centuries)
Horia Ciugudean, Aurel Dragotă, and Monica-Elena Popescu
Translated by Monica-Elena Popescu - Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Crosses with Embossed Figures Discovered in Romania
Călin Cosma
Part 2: Historical Debates
- From Terra Ultrasilvana to Regnum Erdeelw: Notes on the Historical Evolution of Transylvania in the 10th Century
Tudor Sălăgean
- Hagiography and History in Early Medieval Transylvania: from the Byzantine Bishop Hierotheos (10th Century) to the German Historian Gottfried Schwarz (18th Century)
Jan Nicolae - Patriarch Theophylact, the Horses, and the Hungarians: The Religious Origins of the Byzantine Mission to Tourkia
Dan Ioan Mureșan - Ecclesiastical Consequences of the Restoration of Byzantine Power in the Danubian Region
Alexandru Madgearu - Some Remarks on the Church History of the Carpathian Basin during the 10th and 11th Centuries
Gábor Thoroczkay - Gyula’s Christianity and the Bishopric of the Eastern Mission
Éva Tóth-Révész - The Byzantine Monasteries of Medieval Hungary Revisited
Boris Stojkovski - The Hungarian Kingdom between the Imperial Ecclesiology of Otto III and the Pontifical Ecclesiology of Gregory VII
Șerban Turcuș - Latin Bishoprics in the ‘Age of Iron’ and the Diocese of Transylvania
Adinel C. Dincă and Mihai Kovács
Part 3: Future Debates
- The 10th- to 11th-Century Pillared-Church in Alba Iulia: Reconstruction Proposals
Nicolae Călin Chifăr and Marius Mihail Păsculescu
Conclusions
Ana Dumitran
Translated by Florin Curta