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Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2008

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ROMAN LAMPS OF POŞTA (MOESIA INFERIOR) (TULCEA COUNTY)

OPAIŢELE ROMANE DE LA POŞTA (MOESIA INFERIOR) (JUDEŢUL TULCEA)

Author(s): Dorel Paraschiv,George Nuţu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 24-26/2010

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The lamps referred to in this paper were discovered in the place called “Cotul Celicului”, west of Poşta village (Frecăţei, Tulcea county), within the territory of Noviodunum town. They were identified in three different archaeological campaigns, carried out with the occasion of archaeological salvage researches, in 1987, 2000 and 2003. The Roman lamps of Poşta generally illustrate the common types, well known inside the Empire. Two of them are rather rare not only inside the province but also in other regions (lamps nos. 1-2). Both may be considered import objects although their origin is hard to establish. As in the case of all special luxury products, these are disseminated on vast areas, without the possibility of establishing concentration areas. Of better quality, lamps nos. 4-5, among which the latter is met more frequently in the Black Sea area, can be assigned to workshops outside the province. The rest of the lamps may be considered to be local products produced by west Pontic workshops, which imitated the widely spread products of the time. The lamp decorated with garlands and probably vine and oak leaves (no. 10) is also a local product that has emerged under the influence of the lamps decorated with grape vines and grapes and its workshop could be located at Durostorum or in the neighbourhood of this ancient centre.

Exploring second iron age landscapes. The necropolis from Zimnicea, Teleorman County

Exploring second iron age landscapes. The necropolis from Zimnicea, Teleorman County

Author(s): Maria-Magdalena Ştefan / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2009

Keywords: second Iron Age; lower Danube; necropolis; Zimnicea; Teleorman County

Considering the organization of the funerary space as a reflection of certain social aspects, we intend to analyze the meaning of tumuli graves dated in the second Iron Age in the lower Danube area in the context of necropolises which can be associated with their contemporaneous settlements. The exploitation of landscape as funerary space is understood as strongly connected with topographic and strategic features of the terrain. When putting in relation the expressions of status in funerary practices with the presumed associated habitation and routes, one could point out to the existence of authority centers and models of using and organizing the funerary space as identity statements.

Geto-Dacian settlements and necropolises: three case studies (OLTENI, COSLOGENI, HUNEDOARA)

Geto-Dacian settlements and necropolises: three case studies (OLTENI, COSLOGENI, HUNEDOARA)

Author(s): Valeriu Sîrbu / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2009

Keywords: Geto-Dacians; necropolises; rituals; characteristics; differences

We will analyze these three discoveries for the following reasons: a) they are from different areas; b) they are from different periods, c) excavations were made in both the settlements and the connected necropolises, d) I have participated in the excavations from these sites, e) there are some shared characteristics of the rites and rituals performed by the Geto-Dacians of that time. The analysis of the vestiges from the aforementioned settlements and necropolises allows us to identify shared characteristics, but also differences, which are to be expected, given the various areas and periods that they are from.

New dates concerning the fortification system from hallstattian settlement of Babadag (Tulcea county)

Noi date referitoare la sistemul de fortificare al aşezării hallstattiene de la Babadag (jud.Tulcea)

Author(s): Gabriel Jugănaru,Sorin Cristian Ailincăi / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2003

Keywords: Early Iron Age; Babadag culture; Babadag; fortification; complexes with human remains from settlements

The hallstattian settlement from Babadag was fortified in the third phase of the Babadag culture (8th – beginning of the 7th century BC). Very important in this dating is the pottery discovered in the course of excavation. The fortification contains a trench and a vallum. The pits found in the vallum’s structure shows that the fortification was abandoned in the same phase of habitat, probably at the beginning of the 8 th century BC. Through this pits, there is a very interesting situation in the case of pit number 3 from S VI, where we discovered three human skulls, which were dropped there. Similar situation are mentioned in the Babadag type settlements from Satu Nou “Valea lui Voicu”, Garvăn „Mlăjitul Florilor” and Niculiţel „Cornet”.

Cremated remains in bronze situla from Sipoteni (2nd-1st centuries BC)

Despre mormântul de incineraţie în situlă de bronz de la Sipoteni (sec. II-I a. Chr.)

Author(s): Ion Tentiuc,Valeriu Bubulici,Angela Simalcsik / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Bronze situlae; funeral urns; odd hoards; East Carpathian region; Bastarnae; Celts

In the work on the materials of a cremation burial in bronze situla of the 2nd-1st centuries BC, which was found in Mana village (Orhei district), we have taken for comparative and anthropological analysis remains of calcined bones from the burial in situla from Sipoteni (Călăraşi district) published in 1950s. Osteological research of the contents of the bronze vessel from Sipoteni showed that the remains belonged to a man 20-30 years old. In the burial urn a fragment of a black-burnished vessel, a silver fi bula of the Middle La Tene type, an iron ring, and an amorphous iron object were found. The grave goods also contain a bronze situla, identical in shape and size, which was found near the funeral urn. Researches attributed the Sipoteni burial to the 2nd-1st centuries BC, a period of domination of Bastarnae tribes in the central and northern part of the Carpathian-Dniester region. Our own comparative analysis of this type of bronze vessels showed that they are similar with identical containers from the Middle Danube sites, as well as from northern Italy, southern France and Spain, which were used by Celtic tribes as funeral urns. To the east of the Carpathians identical bronze vessels were found in the village of Mana, at the site of Bădeni (Iaşi), and as part of the so-called odd hoards from Bădragii Noi, Vesela Dolina, and Maryevka (in the region from the Eastern Carpathians to the Dnieper and the Don at least 50 so-called hoards were found), including ones in the bronze vessels, which we have mentioned. Some researchers’ attempts to attribute the situlae from Sipoteni, Bădragii Noi, Vesela Dolina, Maryevka, etc. to the type of Eggers 18-23 or the type of Bargfeld seem to us to fail, because these bronze vessels have slender shape, riveted bronze or iron attaches and the maximum diameter of the vessels is at the height of the fourth part. The East Carpathian situlae are of less slender proportions, and the largest diameter is located at the third part of the height of the vessels. In addition, the East Carpathian vessels have no trace of riveted attaches. They either have a different system of handles attachment or have no traces of them. Morphological features of bronze situlae found to the east of the Carpathians made it possible to attribute vessels without handles and attaches or traces of rivets to a special type – the type of Mana, and bronze containers with mobile iron handles – to the Bădragii Noi variant of the same type. Most researchers dated the bronze situlae within the 1st century BC. Analysis of the grave goods from the cremation burial complexes identified at Sipoteni and Mana (bronze situlae, silver fibula, weapons of Celtic type, etc.), as well as analysis of objects from odd hoards confirm that they belong to the 1st century BC, likely to the first half of this chronological interval.

The Early Iron Age settlement at Niculiţel–Cornet, Tulcea county. The Archaeological Surveys of 1988

Aşezarea din perioada timpurie a epocii fierului de la Niculiţel–Cornet, jud. Tulcea. Cercetările arheologice din anul 1988

Author(s): Sorin Cristian Ailincăi,Florin Topoleanu,Florian Mihail / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 14/2016

Keywords: Early Iron Age;Romania;Babadag culture;Niculiţel

This paper presents the EIA finds of the archaeological survey conducted in 1988 at Niculiţel–Cornet. On this occasion, 67 archaeological structures were investigated (mostly pits) and a rather large quantity of pottery was recovered, along with artifacts made of clay, hard animal materials or stone, which are analyzed below. In the absence of artifacts indicatory of precise dating as well as of possible 14C data, the settlement at Niculiţel–Cornet could be broadly dated to 10th-9th century BC, more likely in the first half of this period, considering the high incidence of decoration on vessels.

The archaeological cultural landscape of the north Thracians: the habitats space in the context of the daily, the production activity and the sacred (VII/VIth-IIIth centuries BC)

Peisajul cultural-arheologic la tracii septentrionali: spaţii de habitat în contextul cotidianului, activităţii de producere şi al sacrului (sec. VII/VI-III a.Chr.)

Author(s): Vasile Haheu / Language(s): English,Romanian,Russian / Issue: 1-2/2017

Keywords: the north thracians;the cultural landscape;habitats space;vitals zones;production;sacral structures

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Bi-ritual funerary practices extended in the Carpathian-Danubian region during 5th-3rd century BC

PRACTICI FUNERARE BIRITUALE PRELUNGITE ÎN SPAŢIUL CARPATO-DUNĂREAN ÎN SECOLELE V–III A. CHR.

Author(s): Mircea Babeş,Nicolae Miriţoiu / Language(s): English,Romanian,French / Issue: 1/2011

Keywords: Disposal of the dead; Prolonged burial practices; Provisional graves; Cremation; Inhumation; Biritualism; Carpatho-Danubian region; 5th–3rd c. B. C.; Getae; Thracians; Skythians; Agathyrsi

The excavations carried out by the present authors in the Getic cemeteries at Boroseşti (Iaşi County) and Poieneşti (Vaslui County), dated to the 5th – 3rd c. BC, brought new data concerning funerary practices typical for this period; they consist mainly in the alternative use of inhumation and cremation during prolonged burial practices. Our starting point was the discovery of two funerary structures having the shape and dimensions of inhumation graves as well as grave goods, but lacking bones (at Boroseşti); at the same time were found graves with cremated bones laid in similarly over dimensioned pits, i.e. pits which had the sizes of inhumation graves (at Boroseşti, and especially at Poieneşti). This phenomenon is widely distributed, from Dniester (Nistru, Dnestr) to Tisza (Tisa) River; it is most clearly attested in the cemeteries from Slobozia-Oneşti, Stelnica, Zimnicea, Fântânele, Teliţa, Murighiol, Băiţa, Olteni(Romania), Dănceni and Pîrjolteni (Moldovian Republic), Szentes-Vekerzug and Tápiószele (Hungary). In these authors opinion, the large grave pits served initially as „provisional graves”; after some time, the corpses were exhumed and cremated, the cremated bones being afterwards either laid back in the initial pits or put in other places. When the latter was the case, in the former „provisional graves” – considered by some authors „cenotaphs” –, one can find remains of grave goods, but no bones. The outfit of the funerary structures with wood, stone and clay (e.g. at Dănceni, Zimnicea, Olteni, etc.) shows that they were accessible for the duration of the prolonged funerary practices, thus allowing for repeated ceremonies and ritual acts to take place at/in the graves. The existence of biritual, prolongued funerary practices is also attested by the ethnography of indigenous populations, both recent and contemporary.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THE CITY OF CALLATIS IN LIGHT OF NEW CERAMIC FINDS (2ND – 6TH CENTURIES AD)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THE CITY OF CALLATIS IN LIGHT OF NEW CERAMIC FINDS (2ND – 6TH CENTURIES AD)

Author(s): Andrei Opait,Mihai Ionescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Callatis; amphorae; kitchen ware; diet;trade

The authors present a small ceramic collection sheltered by the archaeological museum of Mangalia. The large variety of wine, olive oil, and fish product amphorae suggested by this modest pottery collection confirms the extensive trade network established by this city not only with Pontic centres but also with many eastern Mediterranean areas during early and late Roman times. The kitchen ware also displays a large variety of pots, casseroles, and frying pans. They attest to the advanced level in cookery reached by the Callatian society and the diversified trade connections that allowed it to import Aegean and west Anatolian cooking vessels, while others were locally or provincially made.

Thracians in the Lower Dnieper Basin

Фракийцы в Нижнем Поднепровье

Author(s): N. A. Gavriliuk / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2009

The author studies some archival and fund evidence of post-Scythian settlements and forts. They serve as a basis for a more precise dating of the Thracian complexes in the Lower Dnieper basin. The time span of the Thracian horizon on this settlement is narrowed down to 3rd – early 2nd cc. BC. The life time of the Thracian complexes is limited to 2nd c. BC. The author has widened the list of features of the Thracian culture. Besides the handmade polished pottery described by M.I. Vyazmitina, another feature of the Thracian presence can be square houses with clay walls, sometimes placed on stone foundation, with open hearths, clay oval home altars and big vessels planted in the floor. Localization of Thracian sites has been established (or places of compact settlement of Thracian or related population) on the Zolotaya Balka settlement. Thracian complexes are concentrated in the northern part of the Zolotaya Balka settlement (northern settlement) and on the K section 500-600 m south of it – in the southern part of the Zolotaya Balka on the territory of Gavrilovka fort – in the northern part of the acropolis. The article also defines some buildings on the territory of Annovka, Velikaya Lepetiha and Znamenskoe forts. Thracians of the Lower Dnieper are identified with the known Thracian tribes. The analysis suggests that the population of the Thracian villages in terms of their material culture were closest to the tribes that left Poieneshti-Lucasheuca culture, rather than to the southern Thracian tribes. Material and spiritual culture of the populations of these forts, in their early stages, was dominated not only by Scythian traditions, but also by Thracian ones. The Thracian population appeared in the Lower Dnieper basin not after the Getian invasion but at least a hundred years earlier.

Representations of ornaments inspired by Romanian architecture on Wallachian medieval stove tiless from the 15th-17th centuries

Representations of ornaments inspired by Romanian architecture on Wallachian medieval stove tiless from the 15th-17th centuries

Author(s): Maria-Venera Rădulescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 7/2016

Keywords: defensive wall;merlon;battlement;dome;spire;church;recess;arcade;fleuron;disc tiles;convex tiles; fretted tiles;panel tiles;crown tiles;engobe

The tile stove, as a monument of interior architecture, has both a heating and a decorative purpose. Its volume can be inspired by military defensive architecture, by the architecture of ecclesiastic monuments or by secular architecture. The stove’s decorative aspect is represented by the design of the tiles (shape, iconographical repertoire, the enamel chromatics). Among the medieval tiles discovered on the Wallachian territory, the ones selected for this study are those that have an ornamentation that is representative of the architecture of the era: towers, citadel defensive walls, with merlons and battlements, church silhouettes topped by crosses, domes, arcades, stone walls with windows and recesses. The above mentioned decorative elements are found in disc tiles, convex tiles, fretted tiles, and panel tiles, pieces designed for the crown of the stove or the volumetric register corresponding to the heating chamber.

Rescue excavations at Alexandria ‘Pădurea Vedea’, Teleorman County. The late La Tène and post-Roman finds

CERCETĂRILE ARHEOLOGICE PREVENTIVE DE LA ALEXANDRIA ‘PĂDUREA VEDEA’, JUDEŢUL TELEORMAN. MATERIALELE LA TÈNE TÂRZIU ŞI POST-ROMANE

Author(s): Cristian Eduard Ștefan,Daniel Spânu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 9/2017

In 2013 rescue excavations were carried out at Alexandria at the location known as ‘Pădurea Vedea’. 16 features belonging to the La Tène epoch were investigated (pit-dwellings, pits and a ditch with palisade system) and are presented in this article. In addition, some early medieval pot fragments were identified.

Connected peripheries – North Danube Thrace in the 4th-3rd centuries BC. Exploring settlement patterns in the environs of the ostentatious grave of Peretu

Connected peripheries – North Danube Thrace in the 4th-3rd centuries BC. Exploring settlement patterns in the environs of the ostentatious grave of Peretu

Author(s): Dan Ștefan,Maria-Magdalena Ștefan / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2019

Keywords: Arcaeology; Iron Age; hillforts; Peretu;

The following analysis emerged as an attempt to explain and contextualize a very rich grave, already historiographically notorious, with analogies equally famous, traditionally dated around the middle of the 4th c. BC, discovered in 1970, at Peretu, Romania, 40 km north of the Danube. The main objective of the study was to explore how (and if) this ostentatious display of authority, consumed in the symbolic domain, was linked with other processes of rising collective identities in North Danube Thrace, as suggested to had taken place by a series of neighbouring fortified sites dated approximately in the same period with the grave. These sites stand out through their particular technique of building defences based on using burnt clays in the construction of their enclosure walls. The interpretations will be partially based on recent interdisciplinary investigations (geophysical & aerial) undertaken in several fortified sites of the Teleorman region. In the two-three decades before the Macedonian rule, these fortified sites were already focusing the attention of regional communities around a cultic component, several of them developing into residential central places, beginning with the last quarter of the 4th c. BC. In a broader framework, the study examines the processes of social growth, authority centralization and emergence of collective identities occurred during the early Hellenistic period in peripheral territories of the Macedonian rule. North Danube Thrace exhibited, after the wars of Philip II and especially during those of Alexander’s Successors, a particular vivid demographic development. It is stated that this development, including the wealth visible in several graves, was triggered by the Macedonian coin and political interests of the Diadochi that used North-Eastern Thrace as a secondary stage in their power competition through proxy.

Epigraphic and Numismatic Finds from the Excavations of Ilyich 1 Settlement as a Reflection of the Crisis Phenomena of the Bosporan Society in the Hellenistic Period

Эпиграфические и нумизматические находки из раскопок поселения Ильич 1 как отражение кризисных явлений боспорского общества в эпоху эллинизма

Author(s): Oleg V. Sharov,Natalia A. Pavlicenko,Mikhail M. Choref / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 6/2019

Keywords: Taman; Bosporan Kingdom; Hellenism; Roman period; Ilyich 1 settlement; amphorae; stamps; Thasos; Sinope; Herakleia; Rhodes; Kos; coins

This paper addresses the whole set of the epigraphic and numismatic materials yielded by excavations on the coastal area of Ilyich 1 settlement in 2015—2016 (excavation Bereg-IV). The site is situated around the well-known Ilyich fort located at the northern boundary of the modern village of Ilyich in Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Kray. The dig uncovered predominantly the materials of the early Roman period (mid 1st century BC — mid 1st century AD). In the course of the excavations, also a horizon of the Hellenistic period was discovered. The latter included two ash accumulations, five household pits and four baby burials in amphorae. The amphora stamps date the objects within 380/370—109 BC. The coins indicate a somewhat differing date of 314/310 BC — 14/13 BC/9—10 AD. A synthesis of the numismatic and epigraphic evidence helped identify seven ‘arbitrary’ chronological stages in trade and monetary relations on Ilyich 1 in the Hellenistic period.

Social Services Offered by Faith-based Organizations in the Post-Secular Society

Social Services Offered by Faith-based Organizations in the Post-Secular Society

Author(s): Polixenia Nistor / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2019

Keywords: post secular society; faith based organizations; social work; professionalization of charity;

Within this present paper we reviewed a series of particularities of the process of professionalization of charity and of formation of social work were reviewed, and also we highlighted the differences between the specificities of the social work carried out by secular organizations as compared to that carried out by organizations with a religious profile. A model of social Christianity was discussed, highlighting the Christian, historical foundations of social work. We started our analysis from the theory expressed regarding the post-secular society by Jurgen Habermas, in order to outline the model of social Christianity and the manner of its manifestation in faith-based social work organizations, so that in the end we were able to draw a series of theoretical conclusions regarding the types of faith-based organizations identified in the literature. The empirical research consists of a qualitative study, based on the application of semi-structured interviews, with 25 persons, priests, social workers and monks involved in the social-philanthropic activity of the Orthodox Church. The interviews were conducted between October 2018 and January 2019 within the Diocese of Iasi and were analysed using Grounded Theory. After analysing the results, emerged a theoretical model regarding the specific activity of the Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC) as a faith-based organization providing social philanthropic services.

Emblems representing deities on Sinope amphora stamps (based on the Tyras collection)

Embleme reprezentând zeităţi de pe ştampilele de amfore de Sinope (în baza colecţiei de la Tyras)

Author(s): Natalia Mateevici / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: Greek gods; amphorae stamps; emblems; trade; magistrates; roads; protectors;

The article is an attempt to interpret some of the emblems on the Sinope amphora stamps, especially those that contain faces of Greek gods and their attributes. 41 stamps from the Tyras collection of Sinope stamps containing such emblems are analyzed and presented. The representation of only some of the gods and attributes on stamps denotes, in our opinion, the preference of Sinope magistrates for deities that had functions of protection and defense, ease of difficult roads that merchants traversed in a world often unknown and hostile. Among the gods and attributes that appear on Sinope stamps we should mention Hermes (the god of trade and merchandise), Athena (protector of crafts), Poseidon (the patron of sailors), and goddess Artemis (who was supposed to guide sailors during the night), or gods that made it easy for travelers (first of all merchants) to safely traverse the roads they were supposed to (Selene, Helios, Hecate) or goddess Nike, one of whose qualities was the role of successful mediator between gods and men during war and during all sorts of misunderstandings between mortals.It is obvious that not all the emblems have a religious significance, but we have tried to focus and interpret only the pieces that contain undoubtedly representations and attributes of certain gods.

A Hoard with Drachmas Issued by Dyrrhachium and Apollonia from the Brukenthal National Museum Colection (Transylvania II)

Un tezaur conţinând drahme emise de Dyrrhachium şi Apollonia din colecţia Muzeului Naţional Brukenthal (Transilvania II)

Author(s): Silviu Istrate Purece,Claudiu Munteanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: XVI/2019

Keywords: Dyrrhachium coin; Apollonia coins; Transylvania hoard; drachma; coin circulation in Dacia;

In the Ist century BC large quantities of drachmas issued by the Adriatic cities:Dyrrhachium and Apollonia arrived in the Dacians’ territories. Many hoards,containing this kind of coins, were discovered in Transylvania, some of them beingpreserved in regional museums’collections. Unfortunately, many hoards, recorded inthe oldest collections don’t preserved the discovery places because of the lack ofinterested for such detailes in the time when those pieces were collected. In thissituation is, also, this hoard, named Transylvania II because of the large probabilityto being discovered in this region, which provide interesting information regardingthe typological evolution of Dyrrhachium and Apollonia coins and complete the dataregarding the presence of those coins north to the Danube.

The confinement periplus of Archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc under the dictatorship of Carol II

The confinement periplus of Archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc under the dictatorship of Carol II

Author(s): Carmen Ciornea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: Arsenie Papacioc; Radu Papacioc; dictatorship; Carol II; theology; confessor; monarch; prison;

The present paper aims to reveal unique aspects of the biography of the one who would become Archimandrite Arsenie Papacioc, one of the great father confessors of the Romanian Orthodox Church, aspects which confirms his exemplary profile, although the present research implies the recovery of data from the detention periplus experienced by Father Arsenie Papacioc during the dictatorship of Carol II. The research is based on archival documents, contextualized from the testimonies of the subject, their confrontation aiming to eliminate the risk of presenting a unilateral perspective, suitable for the secret police of the time. A comparative analysis is, we believe, an effective method of reconstructing historical phenomena and processes, which can also facilitate the enlightenment of dark areas.The presentation of the two imprisonment periods is also a proof added to the list of sacrificial acts of Father Arsenie Papacioc. His existence, placed in a continuous war, held in the name of Orthodoxy, for the promotion of the spiritual and social dimension of the faith, rooted in the liturgical horizon, has been a constant and intense mission of our work. The dictatorship of Carol II was for Anghel Papacioc, to all appearances paradoxically, a period of deepening of his spiritual search and spiritual shaping, a stage of modeling for this emblematic personality of the Romanian Orthodox Church, who managed to triumph over a century marked by the two World Wars and totalitarianism.

INTERFERENCES BETWEEN MORALS AND LAW IN ROMANIAN CONTEXT

INTERFERENCES BETWEEN MORALS AND LAW IN ROMANIAN CONTEXT

Author(s): Iuliu-Marius Morariu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: PRAVILA; CHURCH; STATE; SECULARISATION; ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA; SECULAR STATE;

IN THIS ARTICLE, AUTHOR PRESENTS THE WAY HOW, DURING THE HISTORY, MORALS AND LAW INTERFERED IN ROMANIAN CONTEXT AND SHOWS HOW IN DIFFERENT MOMENTS OF HISTORY, CHURCH WAS THE ONE WHICH, THROUGH THE MORALS ALSO CONTROLED THE CIVILE LAW. IT ALSO EMPHASIZES THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILE LAW AND ITS SEPARATION FROM THE MORALS IN THE HISTORY AND IT SPEAKS ABOUT THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION, BUT ALSO ABOUT SPECIAL MOMENTS OF THE ROMANIAN HISTORY LIKE THE COMMUNIST PERIOD. AREAS LIKE POLITICAL THEOLOGY, MEDIAEVAL HISTORY, RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE AND FIRST ONE'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE APPARITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN STATE, ARE ALSO FACED THERE, INSIDE AN ARTICLE THAT AIM IS TO BE AN OVERVIEW OF THE WAY HOW MORALS, PRIVATE AND CIVILE LAW INTERFERED DURING THE CENTURIES AND INFLUENCED THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ROMANIAN SPACE. IN HIS DEMARCHE, THE AUTHOR USES INFORMATION PROVIDED BOTH BY HISTORICAL, THEOLOGYCAL OR LAW SOURCES, BUT IT DOES NOT NEGLEGTS OTHER SOURCES THAT, AD LEAST PARTIALLY, APPROACH HIS TOPIC.