Abstract
This study presents four medieval religious monuments in different stages of conservation. They are also different in structure, decoration system, function and especially in their position according to the present hierarchy. However, they have one thing in common: their beneficiaries have required and financed archaeological research for each of them.
The four monuments are the foundation vestiges of the “St Paraskeva” Church in the village of Scânteia (Iași county, 1984), built in the first decades of the 17th century, probably by a local boyar; the “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Church in the village of Stroiești, Todirești township (Iași county, 1990), which proved to have been built between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th by unknown founders, most probably by another local boyar; the ruins of the former Poiana cu Schit Church, in the Boroșești Woods from Grajduri township (Iași county, 1991), built by unknown founders in the 18th century; the “Holy Hierarch Nicholas” Church of the Popăuți Monastery in Botoșani (Botoșani county, 2000), built by Prince Stephen the Great in 1486.
Keywords
archaeological research, beneficiary, church, Middle Ages, ruins
