Moartea lui Ştefan cel Mare şi semnele vremii
The Death of Stephen the Great and the Signs of Time

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the death of Stephen the Great as recorded by the medieval chronicles. His death was preceded by a hard winter, abundant rains, overflows of rivers and human victims. The juxtaposition of these events is not a mere coincidence, since, according to the traditional mentality, the Christian sovereign was responsible for the welfare both of the human order and the natural one. The author of the present paper follows this idea throughout the Romanian, Byzantine, Russian and Occidental chronicles, as well as in folk and authored creations

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