Alice Isabella Sullivan, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 2017) is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. She is the co-founder of North of Byzantium, Mapping Eastern Europe, and the Sinai Digital Archive project.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on Sources, Dates, Translations, and TransliterationsTable of Key MonumentsIntroduction1 Changing Landscapes1 Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire2 Defensive Landscape3 Sacred Landscape4 Fortified Monasteries5 Projects beyond Moldavia2 Ideologies and Temporalities1 Shifting Identities2 Votive Images, Intercessors, and Rituals3 Alter Constantinus4 New Struggles and Ambitions3 Patterns of Patronage1 Patronage of Mount Athos2 Reasons for Patronage3 Counter-gifts and Holy Relics4 Workshops and Scriptoria4 Sacred Spaces1 Transitions and Transformations2 Peter’s Ecclesiastical Projects3 Byzantine-Slavic Forms4 Gothic Elements5 Stylistic Pluralism5 Images and Rituals1 Mural Cycles in the Naos and Altar2 The Visual and Spatial Orchestration of the Divine Liturgy3 Preparatory Spaces and the Path to Salvation4 Exterior Images and Ambulatory Processions6 Burials and Memory1 The Moldavian Gropniță2 Burials apud ecclesiam3 The Graves and Their Props4 Social and Symbolic Explanations5 Spiritual and Eschatological Dimensions7 Traditions and Transformations1 The Patronage of the Movilă Brothers2 Transformations in the Local Visual CultureConclusionBibliographyIndex

Alice Isabella Sullivan, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 2017) is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. She is the co-founder of North of Byzantium, Mapping Eastern Europe, and the Sinai Digital Archive project.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on Sources, Dates, Translations, and TransliterationsTable of Key MonumentsIntroduction1 Changing Landscapes1 Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire2 Defensive Landscape3 Sacred Landscape4 Fortified Monasteries5 Projects beyond Moldavia2 Ideologies and Temporalities1 Shifting Identities2 Votive Images, Intercessors, and Rituals3 Alter Constantinus4 New Struggles and Ambitions3 Patterns of Patronage1 Patronage of Mount Athos2 Reasons for Patronage3 Counter-gifts and Holy Relics4 Workshops and Scriptoria4 Sacred Spaces1 Transitions and Transformations2 Peter’s Ecclesiastical Projects3 Byzantine-Slavic Forms4 Gothic Elements5 Stylistic Pluralism5 Images and Rituals1 Mural Cycles in the Naos and Altar2 The Visual and Spatial Orchestration of the Divine Liturgy3 Preparatory Spaces and the Path to Salvation4 Exterior Images and Ambulatory Processions6 Burials and Memory1 The Moldavian Gropniță2 Burials apud ecclesiam3 The Graves and Their Props4 Social and Symbolic Explanations5 Spiritual and Eschatological Dimensions7 Traditions and Transformations1 The Patronage of the Movilă Brothers2 Transformations in the Local Visual CultureConclusionBibliographyIndex

Alice Isabella Sullivan, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 2017) is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. She is the co-founder of North of Byzantium, Mapping Eastern Europe, and the Sinai Digital Archive project.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on Sources, Dates, Translations, and TransliterationsTable of Key MonumentsIntroduction1 Changing Landscapes1 Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire2 Defensive Landscape3 Sacred Landscape4 Fortified Monasteries5 Projects beyond Moldavia2 Ideologies and Temporalities1 Shifting Identities2 Votive Images, Intercessors, and Rituals3 Alter Constantinus4 New Struggles and Ambitions3 Patterns of Patronage1 Patronage of Mount Athos2 Reasons for Patronage3 Counter-gifts and Holy Relics4 Workshops and Scriptoria4 Sacred Spaces1 Transitions and Transformations2 Peter’s Ecclesiastical Projects3 Byzantine-Slavic Forms4 Gothic Elements5 Stylistic Pluralism5 Images and Rituals1 Mural Cycles in the Naos and Altar2 The Visual and Spatial Orchestration of the Divine Liturgy3 Preparatory Spaces and the Path to Salvation4 Exterior Images and Ambulatory Processions6 Burials and Memory1 The Moldavian Gropniță2 Burials apud ecclesiam3 The Graves and Their Props4 Social and Symbolic Explanations5 Spiritual and Eschatological Dimensions7 Traditions and Transformations1 The Patronage of the Movilă Brothers2 Transformations in the Local Visual CultureConclusionBibliographyIndex