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“Negru Vodă” Monastery and its Place in The History of Câmpulung Town
“Negru Vodă” Monastery and its Place in The History of Câmpulung Town

Author(s): Carmen Oprescu
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Convent; Town; Câmpulung; Wallachia; Fortress; Orthodox; Catholic; Founder; Fair

Summary/Abstract: Built by Matei Basarab in 1635–1638, “Negru Vodă” monastery had a particularly important role in the town life, from the very moment of its setting up. It had a special status as a monastery located in the perimeter within the town and equipped by the founder with inn, shops, printing-house and fortified premises. Matei Basarab is the founder of most churches and monasteries in the entire history of the Romanians, and the transformation of the oldest princely residence of Wallachia into a monastery, seems to have had multiple reasons: political, dynastic, religious, strategic. In special political and economic circumstances, the emergence of the monastery will mark Câmpulung’s cultural and spiritual life and a historic process for the town, the destruction of the Câmpulung’s community organization, its privileges and properties, the monks here seizing other rights, propertys and privileges which had belonged to the community. For example, from its setting up, the fair attended by foreign merchants, held annually on a different ground for the town, will be held under the administration of the monastery, in a place provided by the ruler with shops and inns near the monastery. Preceded by the princely court on the same site, the monastery will continue the transformation process of morphological structure of town planning.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2009
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 33-43
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English