Radu Cârciumaru
Biographic Data
| ID | 389243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radu Cârciumaru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radu |
| FAMILY NAME | Cârciumaru |
| SIGNATURE | CÂRCIUMARU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Valahia University of Targoviste |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1654-5270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vlad the Impaler, the Truth Behind the Myth: His Youth and Fight Against the Ottoman Empire
Vlad Țepeș “the Impaler” is the most famous figure of the Romanian Middle Ages. Sadly, his world fame is due to Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. For over 120 years, imagination proved to be stronger for the public at large than historical truth. We do not wish to get into an argument regarding the myth of the cruel, bloodthirsty or even vampiric prince. It is neither the place nor our role to venture onto such moving sands. What we have been concerned w…
A Forgotten History. A Communist Horse and the Last Vandalization of the Princely Court of Târgoviște
The Princely Court of Târgoviște is one of the best-preserved mediaeval monuments of the Romanian space. Built during the 14 th and 15 th centuries, it held the role of main political centre in the time of several important rulers such as Vlad the Impaler, Petru Cercel, Michael the Brave, Matei Basarab or Constantin Brâncoveanu. The 18 th -century Russo-Austrian-Turkish wars left a heavy mark on the Wallachian Court, accelerating the process of i…
Historiographic Restitutions. Radu Gioglovan and His Studies on the Mediaeval City of Târgoviște
Radu Gioglovan is an example of how local history should have evolved during the communist regime. His studies combine archaeology and history in a fortunate manner and, for this reason, revisiting some of his hypotheses, placing them within the progress made in the field of research may provide answers regarding important aspects in the evolution of mediaeval Târgoviște city. Radu Gioglovan’s preoccupations covered important stages and moments i…
Prince Negru Vodă, a Mediaeval Figure as Mirrored by the Romanian Enlightenment and Romanticism
Negru Vodă remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Romanian history. It is certainly the reason that he has been the focus of historical investigations ever since the dawn of modernity. In the absence of documents that should guide one through the mists of those times, the Romanian Enlightenment and Romanticism built a false perception of the beginnings of the first Romanian mediaeval state. Negru Vodă is thus seen as being a member of the B…
Simion Florea Marian and the Legends about the Beginnings of Moldavia
The works of Simion Florea Marian belong to the stage of a full assertion of the Romanian spirituality which found expression in Bukovina in the second half of the nineteenth century. His historical legends, traditions, and mythology written and published over the years have had a great impact on the Romanian culture, influencing the way in which people could value their spiritual heritage. His legacy is most complex, featuring various aspects; h…
Târgoviște and the metamorphoses brought by its decline at the end of the Mediaeval Age and the beginning of Modern Times
Târgovişte, the capital of Wallachia for many centuries, would undergo, towards the end of the Middle Ages, a vast process of economic and political transformations. Bucharest having taken over its role as capital hastened the decline of the city, which had been abandoned by the important noblemen of the country ; the administrative authority also fell and with it its autonomy ; its fairs, emblems of the foreign trade, were dissolved or moved and…
I. D. Petrescu and the Romantic Historiographical Perspective on the Romanian Middle Ages
I. D. Petrescu is an outstanding historian of the 19th century. As a participant in the great revolution of 1848, he was strongly influenced by Romantic historiography. After several decades of working as a teacher, he came to Târgoviște in 1868 and embarked on an extensive publishing activity in which his studies on the mediaeval period held the most important place. His preoccupations open up certain paths in the Romanian research work and, in …
Basarab I at the Beginnings of Wallachia. An Attempt to Recompose the Moment of His Takeover of Power
The beginnings of the Wallachian mediaeval state remain an unwritten page in mediaeval history. The absence of relevant documents apt to set a chronology, to confirm the moment that the first voivode, Basarab I, came into power, prompted the Romanian researchers to formulate viewpoints which could only be partially accepted in the scientific world. Our contribution is to try and arrange the facts logically so as to unravel the complicated file of…
A l’ombre du Saint Empire. Quelques aspects de la politique de Michel le Brave pendant ses derniers mois de vie
In the shadow of Holy Empire. On some polithic issues of Michael the Brave in the last months of his life. The reasons why Michael the Brave crossed the Carpathians into the Empire ruled by the Habsbourg dinasty, at the end of the year 1600, received several interpretations on the historiographic level. From our perspective, the clearest opinion, partially supported by the documents of those times, shows that the former ruler of the three Romania…
Les prémisses de l’unification politique-territoriale dans l’aire roumaine située au sud et à l’est des Carpates après la grande invasion mongole des années 1240-1241. Brèves comparaisons théoriques
Brèves comparaisons théoriques. Cette étude se propose d’analyser les différences entre les deux aires roumaines extra-Carpatiques dans leurs trajectoires parcourues vers leur transformation en Etats médiévaux autonomes. L’invasion mongole des années 1240-1241 a créé un décalage entre le territoire situé à l’est de la chaîne carpatique, entré bien plus strictement sous la protection du Chan de la Horde d’Or, par rapport à celui situé au sud des C…
The Reign of Teodosie and the 1521 Fights for the Wallachian Throne. Short Considerations
The period which covers the death of voivode Neagoe Basarab and the accession to the throne of Radu of Afumați, limited at historical scale, proved a moment of maximum tension in the sinuous development of the Wallachian state during the first decades of the 14th century. It was the beginning of a strained time in the evolution of the Wallachian state which was concluded by the instauration of a direct regime of domination of the Ottoman Empire. …
A candidate to the Walachian throne. Vlad Țepeș and his exile in Moldavia (1449-1452)
The exile of the young Wallachian Prince was of great interests for the Romanian and foreign historiographers for more than a century. Because of the rapid sequence of events, these times seem to transcend the our purely historical narrative and appear to belong to a chivalry romance. Vlad Țepes’ refuge in Moldavia is a very significant moment in history ; it is also the time when he became an opponent of the Ottoman Empire. Just like in other st…
The relations between Hungary and the principality on the right side of Olt River during the second half of the 13th century. Brief observations
The Romanian extra-Carpathian area during the second half of the 13th century is insufficiently known on the level of its political evolution, of its relations with the main power of the area, Hungary. The major event mentioned in documents is the revolt from Oltenia of voivode Litovoi, which triggered a Hungarian military campaign led by magister Georgius. There are still unelucidated aspects concerning the chronology and the consequences of thi…
Historiographic Views on the so-called Battle of “Rovine” and its Consequences of Mircea the Elder’s Rule
Mircea the Elder remains one of the outstanding figures of the Romanian Middle Ages in a stage in which southeastern Europe was deeply marked by the Ottomans’ ascension in Asia Minor. The policy of territorial reunification pursued in the prejudice of the Kingdom of Hungary, which was undergoing the change of the powerful Angevine dynasty, and of the Ottoman Empire, which had reached as far as the mouths of the Danube, prefigured an important rei…
Negru Vodă reflected in several less known historiographic sources from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
Negru Vodă reflected in several less known historiographic sources from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century According to the chronicles, Negru Vodă (Black Voivode) represents a character who supposedly ruled over two small Transylvanian territories. Around 1290, he crossed over the Carpathian Mountains and moved into the extra-Carpathian area, contributing to the appearance of the first Romanian medieval state. The s…
The Romanian extra-Carpathian area after the moment of the great Mongol invasion of 1241-1242. The premises of the politico-territorial unification
The great Mongol invasion represented a moment of reference in the history of the European Middle Ages. The Romanian extra-Carpathian areas were directly concerned by these events. The installation of the Mongol authority over the Moldavian territories, by the middle of the 13th century prevented the development of some pre-state formations. On the contrary, to the south of the Carpathian chain, the Mongol invasion dislocated the hegemony exerted…
Formations in Maramureş during the First Half of the 14th Century (A Few Considerations concerning the Status of the Romanian Nobility)
Formations in Maramureș during the First Half of the 14th Century (A Few Considerations concerning the Status of the Romanian Nobility). During the first half of the 14th century, Maramureș will go through the last stage of its organization under the form of a Romanian principality. The Hungarian royalty tried to bring in the territory its so-called royal hosts (noblemen of Hungarian origin) who received numerous liberties economically. Gradually…
Concernant l’expédition hongroise au sud de la Moldavie (1345)
Concerning the Hungarian expedition in the south of Moldova (1345). The Hungarian military expedition started, very probably, some time towards the beginning of the year 1345. Its aim was to stop the Tatar raids on Transylvania coming from this direction. The result of this action was the appearance of a political-military structure east of the Carpathians, controlled by the Hungarian kingdom, and completed shortly after that, by a religious one,…
The Beginnings of the First Medieval Romanian State and the International Relations during the First Half of the 14th century
During the 14th century, in point of their external relations, Hungary and Poland, the main powers of the central-European area, will endeavor to limit the Mongolian power instated in the eastern zone of the continent after 1241. The battle from Posada (1330), the Polish-Hungarian military actions in Minor Russia and the new politics inaugurated by the second Angevin king of Hungary, Lewis I, will contribute to the acceptance in the international…
Vlad the Impaler at the Beginning of His Second Reign. Short Considerations on Some Aspects of External Politics
Vlad l’Empaleur, devenu pour la deuxième fois prince régnant de la Valachie (1456-1462), devra faire face à une situation externe difficile. Le danger représenté par l’Empire Ottoman a obligé l’Etat Valache, au milieu du 14 e siècle, à adopter une attitude de duplicité dans sa politique extérieure. Ainsi, certaines sources documentaires indiquent le fait que le voïvode, Vlad Tepes a commencé à payer tribut à l’Empire Ottoman dès la fin de l’an 14…
The Cioarei-Borosteni Cave (Carpathian Mountains, Romania): Middle Palaeolithic finds and technological analysis of the lithic assemblages
The authors provide the first report of a Middle Palaeolithic assemblage from Romania. The data suggest short-lived occupation and intriguing evidence of the use of ochre
Le Paléolithique moyen de la grotte Cioarei-Borosteni (commune de Pestisani, département de Gorj, Roumanie)
The Cioarei-Borosteni Cave (Carpathian Mountains, Romania): Middle Palaeolithic finds and technological analysis of the lithic assemblages
The authors provide the first report of a Middle Palaeolithic assemblage from Romania. The data suggest short-lived occupation and intriguing evidence of the use of ochre
Le Paléolithique moyen de la grotte Cioarei-Borosteni (commune de Pestisani, département de Gorj, Roumanie)
Le Paléolithique moyen de la grotte Cioarei-Borosteni (commune de Pestisani, département de Gorj, Roumanie)
The Cioarei-Borosteni Cave (Carpathian Mountains, Romania): Middle Palaeolithic finds and technological analysis of the lithic assemblages
The authors provide the first report of a Middle Palaeolithic assemblage from Romania. The data suggest short-lived occupation and intriguing evidence of the use of ochre
Vlad the Impaler at the Beginning of His Second Reign. Short Considerations on Some Aspects of External Politics
Vlad l’Empaleur, devenu pour la deuxième fois prince régnant de la Valachie (1456-1462), devra faire face à une situation externe difficile. Le danger représenté par l’Empire Ottoman a obligé l’Etat Valache, au milieu du 14 e siècle, à adopter une attitude de duplicité dans sa politique extérieure. Ainsi, certaines sources documentaires indiquent le fait que le voïvode, Vlad Tepes a commencé à payer tribut à l’Empire Ottoman dès la fin de l’an 14…
The Beginnings of the First Medieval Romanian State and the International Relations during the First Half of the 14th century
During the 14th century, in point of their external relations, Hungary and Poland, the main powers of the central-European area, will endeavor to limit the Mongolian power instated in the eastern zone of the continent after 1241. The battle from Posada (1330), the Polish-Hungarian military actions in Minor Russia and the new politics inaugurated by the second Angevin king of Hungary, Lewis I, will contribute to the acceptance in the international…
Formations in Maramureş during the First Half of the 14th Century (A Few Considerations concerning the Status of the Romanian Nobility)
Formations in Maramureș during the First Half of the 14th Century (A Few Considerations concerning the Status of the Romanian Nobility). During the first half of the 14th century, Maramureș will go through the last stage of its organization under the form of a Romanian principality. The Hungarian royalty tried to bring in the territory its so-called royal hosts (noblemen of Hungarian origin) who received numerous liberties economically. Gradually…
Concernant l’expédition hongroise au sud de la Moldavie (1345)
Concerning the Hungarian expedition in the south of Moldova (1345). The Hungarian military expedition started, very probably, some time towards the beginning of the year 1345. Its aim was to stop the Tatar raids on Transylvania coming from this direction. The result of this action was the appearance of a political-military structure east of the Carpathians, controlled by the Hungarian kingdom, and completed shortly after that, by a religious one,…
Negru Vodă reflected in several less known historiographic sources from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
Negru Vodă reflected in several less known historiographic sources from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century According to the chronicles, Negru Vodă (Black Voivode) represents a character who supposedly ruled over two small Transylvanian territories. Around 1290, he crossed over the Carpathian Mountains and moved into the extra-Carpathian area, contributing to the appearance of the first Romanian medieval state. The s…
The Romanian extra-Carpathian area after the moment of the great Mongol invasion of 1241-1242. The premises of the politico-territorial unification
The great Mongol invasion represented a moment of reference in the history of the European Middle Ages. The Romanian extra-Carpathian areas were directly concerned by these events. The installation of the Mongol authority over the Moldavian territories, by the middle of the 13th century prevented the development of some pre-state formations. On the contrary, to the south of the Carpathian chain, the Mongol invasion dislocated the hegemony exerted…
The relations between Hungary and the principality on the right side of Olt River during the second half of the 13th century. Brief observations
The Romanian extra-Carpathian area during the second half of the 13th century is insufficiently known on the level of its political evolution, of its relations with the main power of the area, Hungary. The major event mentioned in documents is the revolt from Oltenia of voivode Litovoi, which triggered a Hungarian military campaign led by magister Georgius. There are still unelucidated aspects concerning the chronology and the consequences of thi…
Historiographic Views on the so-called Battle of “Rovine” and its Consequences of Mircea the Elder’s Rule
Mircea the Elder remains one of the outstanding figures of the Romanian Middle Ages in a stage in which southeastern Europe was deeply marked by the Ottomans’ ascension in Asia Minor. The policy of territorial reunification pursued in the prejudice of the Kingdom of Hungary, which was undergoing the change of the powerful Angevine dynasty, and of the Ottoman Empire, which had reached as far as the mouths of the Danube, prefigured an important rei…
A candidate to the Walachian throne. Vlad Țepeș and his exile in Moldavia (1449-1452)
The exile of the young Wallachian Prince was of great interests for the Romanian and foreign historiographers for more than a century. Because of the rapid sequence of events, these times seem to transcend the our purely historical narrative and appear to belong to a chivalry romance. Vlad Țepes’ refuge in Moldavia is a very significant moment in history ; it is also the time when he became an opponent of the Ottoman Empire. Just like in other st…
The Reign of Teodosie and the 1521 Fights for the Wallachian Throne. Short Considerations
The period which covers the death of voivode Neagoe Basarab and the accession to the throne of Radu of Afumați, limited at historical scale, proved a moment of maximum tension in the sinuous development of the Wallachian state during the first decades of the 14th century. It was the beginning of a strained time in the evolution of the Wallachian state which was concluded by the instauration of a direct regime of domination of the Ottoman Empire. …
Les prémisses de l’unification politique-territoriale dans l’aire roumaine située au sud et à l’est des Carpates après la grande invasion mongole des années 1240-1241. Brèves comparaisons théoriques
Brèves comparaisons théoriques. Cette étude se propose d’analyser les différences entre les deux aires roumaines extra-Carpatiques dans leurs trajectoires parcourues vers leur transformation en Etats médiévaux autonomes. L’invasion mongole des années 1240-1241 a créé un décalage entre le territoire situé à l’est de la chaîne carpatique, entré bien plus strictement sous la protection du Chan de la Horde d’Or, par rapport à celui situé au sud des C…
A l’ombre du Saint Empire. Quelques aspects de la politique de Michel le Brave pendant ses derniers mois de vie
In the shadow of Holy Empire. On some polithic issues of Michael the Brave in the last months of his life. The reasons why Michael the Brave crossed the Carpathians into the Empire ruled by the Habsbourg dinasty, at the end of the year 1600, received several interpretations on the historiographic level. From our perspective, the clearest opinion, partially supported by the documents of those times, shows that the former ruler of the three Romania…
Basarab I at the Beginnings of Wallachia. An Attempt to Recompose the Moment of His Takeover of Power
The beginnings of the Wallachian mediaeval state remain an unwritten page in mediaeval history. The absence of relevant documents apt to set a chronology, to confirm the moment that the first voivode, Basarab I, came into power, prompted the Romanian researchers to formulate viewpoints which could only be partially accepted in the scientific world. Our contribution is to try and arrange the facts logically so as to unravel the complicated file of…
I. D. Petrescu and the Romantic Historiographical Perspective on the Romanian Middle Ages
I. D. Petrescu is an outstanding historian of the 19th century. As a participant in the great revolution of 1848, he was strongly influenced by Romantic historiography. After several decades of working as a teacher, he came to Târgoviște in 1868 and embarked on an extensive publishing activity in which his studies on the mediaeval period held the most important place. His preoccupations open up certain paths in the Romanian research work and, in …
Târgoviște and the metamorphoses brought by its decline at the end of the Mediaeval Age and the beginning of Modern Times
Târgovişte, the capital of Wallachia for many centuries, would undergo, towards the end of the Middle Ages, a vast process of economic and political transformations. Bucharest having taken over its role as capital hastened the decline of the city, which had been abandoned by the important noblemen of the country ; the administrative authority also fell and with it its autonomy ; its fairs, emblems of the foreign trade, were dissolved or moved and…
Prince Negru Vodă, a Mediaeval Figure as Mirrored by the Romanian Enlightenment and Romanticism
Negru Vodă remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Romanian history. It is certainly the reason that he has been the focus of historical investigations ever since the dawn of modernity. In the absence of documents that should guide one through the mists of those times, the Romanian Enlightenment and Romanticism built a false perception of the beginnings of the first Romanian mediaeval state. Negru Vodă is thus seen as being a member of the B…
Simion Florea Marian and the Legends about the Beginnings of Moldavia
The works of Simion Florea Marian belong to the stage of a full assertion of the Romanian spirituality which found expression in Bukovina in the second half of the nineteenth century. His historical legends, traditions, and mythology written and published over the years have had a great impact on the Romanian culture, influencing the way in which people could value their spiritual heritage. His legacy is most complex, featuring various aspects; h…
Historiographic Restitutions. Radu Gioglovan and His Studies on the Mediaeval City of Târgoviște
Radu Gioglovan is an example of how local history should have evolved during the communist regime. His studies combine archaeology and history in a fortunate manner and, for this reason, revisiting some of his hypotheses, placing them within the progress made in the field of research may provide answers regarding important aspects in the evolution of mediaeval Târgoviște city. Radu Gioglovan’s preoccupations covered important stages and moments i…
A Forgotten History. A Communist Horse and the Last Vandalization of the Princely Court of Târgoviște
The Princely Court of Târgoviște is one of the best-preserved mediaeval monuments of the Romanian space. Built during the 14 th and 15 th centuries, it held the role of main political centre in the time of several important rulers such as Vlad the Impaler, Petru Cercel, Michael the Brave, Matei Basarab or Constantin Brâncoveanu. The 18 th -century Russo-Austrian-Turkish wars left a heavy mark on the Wallachian Court, accelerating the process of i…
Vlad the Impaler, the Truth Behind the Myth: His Youth and Fight Against the Ottoman Empire
Vlad Țepeș “the Impaler” is the most famous figure of the Romanian Middle Ages. Sadly, his world fame is due to Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. For over 120 years, imagination proved to be stronger for the public at large than historical truth. We do not wish to get into an argument regarding the myth of the cruel, bloodthirsty or even vampiric prince. It is neither the place nor our role to venture onto such moving sands. What we have been concerned w…
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