Biserici medievale și premoderne din Moldova. Revizia repertoriului și metodelor de abordare

Abstract

Observations relative to the gradual growth of the ecclesiastical landscape of medieval Moldavia are included. Bold generalizations are noted but without any real basis. The archaeological contribution is considered minor and little relevant for the presence of many old, wooden, disappeared churches. The return to the use of the general mechanisms for the birth of churches is called for, along with social maturation and the achievement of some mandatory economic performances related to constructions, the majority of craftsmen from Gothic architecture or the maintenance of worship and clerical workers. In short, the tendencies to delimit opposite traditional cults are taken into analysis, based on strictly formal criteria. Several important objectives, superficially restored archaeologically, are reconstructed planimetrically: princely founders (Suceava, Vaslui), Catholic churches (Suceava, Săbăoani) and wooden churches (Suceava, Igești-Bătinești).