The Personality of the Saintly Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu as Revealed in the Prefaces of the Books Printed in his Age
The Personality of the Saintly Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu as Revealed in the Prefaces of the Books Printed in his Age

Summary/Abstract: Three hundred years ago Saint Constantin Brâncoveanu passed away, the prince who was martyred with his sons and one of his subjects. The grand prince marked the era he ruled by a revival of the social, political and cultural life of Walachia acknowledged both by his contemporaries and by those who studied his life and decided in 1992 to place him among the saints. The perfect and selfless leader had to manage in a period of great turmoil and to face imminent dangers for the people he led. If politically he had the ability to overcome all obstacles, events happened with greater success when we analyze his cultural achievements. To prove this statement, we have analyzed in this study the written record of his most important collaborators in the realm of culture: metropolitans Theodosius and Antim Ivireanul, bishops Metrophanes and Damascus, etc. In the prefaces of the printed work done in his time, they constitute a complete portrait of the personality of the Holy prince, appreciating all the qualities that made him remain in history as a culture creator and benefactor of the Orthodox Churches.

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