Condicile manuscrise ale călugărilor Mănăstirii Dragomirna (1786−1878)
The Manuscript Registers of Monks of the Dragomirna Monastery (1786−1878)

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on three manuscript registers dating from the end of the 18th – the beginning of the 19th centuries, kept in the Dragomirna Monastery Archive, with the goal of retracing some parts of the monastery life. Each register, written in Romanian with Cyrillic characters, consists of headings and various types of information, from monks’ biographies to political, social, medical, and economic realities. The registers of the Dragomirna Monastery monks represent a palpable and accurate tool for researching the history of the Romanian Orthodox Church and a means to reconstitute the daily monastic life in the 18th and the 19th centuries. They are even more important if we take into account that some of the information they contain is unique, while alternative historical sources have disappeared. Getting glimpses of monastic life as it was two centuries ago is a way of getting to know the life of the monastic community, its way of thinking, of praying and of patiently enduring the challenges of history.

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