Proiectul Academiei de la Suceava
THE PROJECT FOR ACADEMY OF SUCEAVA

Summary/Abstract: The final chapter of this work focuses on the most controversial project of the Moldavian ruler Despot Vodă, a project that should have been the glorious achievement of an essentially humanist reign. It was Stefan Bârsănescu, the great Romanian academician, who authored the most extensive study on the above-mentioned project. As we have mentioned in the introduction of our work, Barsanescu's study features certain parts which pertain to the history of culture and cultural anthropology; we dare leave those aspects out or unapproached in favour of Barsanescu's applied research in the Romanian education and pedagogy history. However, the orientation of his research is surprisingly narrow, but this apparent shortcoming is the unfortunate consequence of the drastic censureship practiced at the time when his work came out (in 1957). We started our critical approach with a brief historical argumentation meant to define the nature of that virtual Academy. We have concluded that it could not have been of an institutional type, starting from the statements found in epistolary literature and made by potential 'members' of the Academy or even by its founder. There were certain suppositions regarding a Byzantine calque, even since the reign of Moldavian ruler Alexandru cel Bun. These suppositions were entertained by the presence at the Moldavian Court of several scholars of that time as well as an esteemed representative of the Patriarchal Church, Grigore Tamblac.

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