Marius Chelcu
The Archives of the Monasteries in Bukovina: Reconstitution According to an Inventory from 1805 | p. 51-75


Keywords
Bukovina, inventories, monastery archives, monastery land properties

Abstract

The research is based on several documents that emerged after 1775 when, following the withdrawal of the Ottomans, a new border was drawn, Moldavia losing the territory that was to be called Bukovina. Border tracing has always had immediate or delayed consequences on human communities and institutions. In the series of institutional changes in Bukovina there were also those that affected the Orthodox Church from the province.

Our attention was drawn by a document preserved in the Documents fund of the National Archives from Iaşi. It is an inventory compiled in the spring of 1805 by a committee which inventoried the documents that the monasteries from Bukovina held for their land properties over the new border, within the new, diminished Principality of Moldavia. The present research is therefore a fragment of a wider attempt to virtually reconstitute the archives of the monasteries from Bukovina, as thought and proposed by Ştefan S. Gorovei.