Întregiri documentare privind ajutoarele românești pentru așezăminte religioase din Constantinopol și din împrejurimile acestuia (secolul al XVIII-lea)

Abstract

The financial aid provided over the centuries by the Romanian Principalities to the numerous religious communities throughout the Eastern Christianity was more than substantial. The consistent documentary evidence identified so far in different archives is able to prove this assertion beyond any doubt. Nonetheless, it seems obvious that there are numerous other similar testimonies waiting to be discovered in various archives, either in Romania or abroad. This is even more the case for the 18th c. and the early 19th c., as there are plenty of unedited sources from this period. The present study aims to contribute to this scholarly effort by publishing several donation documents issued by the Wallachian and the Moldavian lords to the benefit of several religious communities located in Constantinople/Istanbul and its surroundings. There are eight such documents, identified by the author in the Romanian archives, and they refer to the following religious communities: St. John, St. Dumitru, Maguliotisa in Constantinople; the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on the island of Halki; the Transfiguration on the island of Proti, and St. Theodore in the village of Pivatecu. The documents are edited in extenso in the appendix of the study. Only after the entire corpus of sources is edited, we will have a complete image of the Moldo-Wallachian financial aid to the Eastern Christianity.