Opinii cu privire la o falsă construcţie identitară în arheologia funerară din România
On a False Identitary Construction in the Funerary Archaeology in Romania. Opinions

Summary/Abstract: The present approach is part of our concerns with medieval archaeology. It tries to dismantle an ethnic and religious identitary construction that Gheorghe Cantacuzino put into circulation more than three decades ago. These last years the theory concerning the Bogomils graves in Romania, ascribed to a Slavic population which came in the north of the Danube from Bulgaria and Serbia, has been assumed by I. Silviu Oţa. It is founded only on archaeological findings. Burials in “orant” position with arms lifted on the collarbone were ascribed to heretical Bogomils. The two historians tried by this to accredit the idea of certain ethnical and religious joint villages in the first centuries of the second millennium. Their ethnic and religious construction naturally hasn’t echoed within the Romanian or south east European historical writing, as it was only enunciated and no written reference or of another nature came to back it. This theory in my opinion ignores both the organic rules of the Latin and of the Orthodox churches and the way the medieval Romanian society was organized and was running.

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