Contributions to the Medieval Ecclesiastic Geography of Arad County. State of Research
Contributions to the Medieval Ecclesiastic Geography of Arad County. State of Research

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at being a contribution to the stage of research regarding the medieval ecclesiastic geography of the county of Arad. My approach shall be limited to a series of relatively recent discoveries, the result of classical field researches, the research of the written sources, geo-referencing the data, scanning the sites through non-intrusive methods, but also checking local oral sources. These discoveries continue and complete a rich repertory of medieval ecclesiastic monuments that are already known in specialized literature. Even though specialists have not shown a constant interest in such monuments, antecedents of their researches date to the 19th century and the historiography regarding the repertory of churches and monasteries has gradually increased. Archaeology played an important role in this, as through specific methods it managed, especially over the last decades, to bring to light new data regarding medieval ecclesiastic edifices. The level reached by archaeological researches or by the non-intrusive field evaluation researches remains nevertheless modest, as compared to the total number of such repertoried sites; I shall attempt to show this through a simple statistical analysis.

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