Foreword ...................................................................................................................... 5

The Letter of the President of the Cultural Foundation of Bukovina ...................................... 6

DUMITRU BOGHIAN, Opinions Concerning the Stone Tools

          of Precucuteni-Cucuteni I Tripolie Cultural Complex (I) ............................................ 7

ION I. SOLCANU, Historiography of Moldavian Ecclesiastical Art

          in the 14th to 16th Centuries. I. Woodwork and Masonry in Moldavian

          Medieval Ecclesiastical Art ................................................................................. 43

VASILE M. DEMCIUC, Saint John of Suceava - a "Moldavian

          Palladium" ........................................................................................................ 65

FLORIN PINTESCU, Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave) and the

          Romanians of Transylvania. Aspects of Confessional Policies ................................ 77

MIHAI LAZAR, Contributions to the Study of Financial Policy of

          Moldavian Rulers in the 17h to 18th Centuries. "Folaritul" ...................................... 87

MIHAI STEFAN CEAUSU, The Place and the Role of the German

          Population in the Social-Economic Life of Bukovina's Cities

          (end of the 18th and 19th Centuries) .................................................................. 100

DOINA ALEXA, Ion Nistor. His Action for the Achievement of the

          Great Union. The Chronological Itinerary ............................................................ 112

ION AGRIGOROAIEI, Lectures with Thorough Historical Importance ............................... 133

MIHAI IACOBESCU, Dr. Silvestru Morariu-Andreevici (1818-1895) .................................. 146

CONSTANTIN SERBAN, Ilie Corfus (1909-1981) ........................................................... 173

DUMITRU VITCU, A Forerunner of Modern Romanian Ecology.

          Carol Mihalic de Hodocin .................................................................................. 179

ION CERNAT, Myth and Reality about the Asian Barbarian Migrators ............................. 185

NICOLAE URSULESCU, VICTORIA BATARIUC, A New Type of Idol

          in the Cucuteni Culture ..................................................................................... 191

DUMITRU BOGHIAN, Opinions Concerning the Cucuteni Dishes with

          Painted Ornitomorphic Decoration Discovered at Buznea (Tg. Frumos City),

          Iasi County ...................................................................................................... 195

MIRCEA IGNAT, A Possible Map of Moldavia at the beginning of the 2nd

          Century A.D. (Ptolemeu, III, 8,2; 10,7 and 8) ...................................................... 204

OLIMPIA MITRIC, Great Deposits of Bibliophile Treasures in Suceava

          County (The Slavonic Miniatural and Ornated Manuscripts Fund) .......................... 214

MIHAI IACOBESCU, A Memorial of Vasile Bals. The Illuminist on the

          Situation of Bukovina and the Necessity of Reforms ............................................ 225

CONSTANTIN SERBAN, The Historical Value of W. Schmidt's

          Monography: "Historical Memoirs of Suceava" .................................................... 231

GH. IACOB, Problems of Romanian Modern History. Opinions

          on a Historiographical Debate (I) ........................................................................ 239

FLORIN PINTESCU, Political Conceptions at Iancu Flondor

          and Ion Nistor .................................................................................................. 252

NICOLAE URSULESCU, The Personality and Activity of Nicolae Iorga.

          Seen by Gh. Bratianu ....................................................................................... 259

GH. IACOB, C. TURLIUC, Information on the Political Activity of P. P. Carp .................... 265

CONSTANTIN SERBAN, Vasile Grecu - Excerpts of His Diary ....................................... 270

ION POPESCU-SIRETEANU, Horait (Name, Topic Name, Persons. Name) ................... 274

ION POPESCU-SIRETEANU, The Name "Rarau" ......................................................... 281

IOAN IOSEP, A Fangled Phenomenon: The Câmpulungenian Transhumance .................. 285

E. SATCO, The Bukovina.s Library "I. G. Sbiera", Donations and Donators ..................... 295

GH. GIURCA, Traditions of Summer School in Romania ................................................ 298

SIMONA PAVELIUC, Thoughts of the Students Study Trip in Transylvania ...................... 303

HARIETA MARECI, Alba Iulia, 1993 ............................................................................ 305

CATALIN HUTU, Damages Caused by the Soviet Troops to Bukovinas

          Orthodox Ecclesiastical Fund in the Forestry and Wood

          Manufacture Section ........................................................................................ 307

MIHAI IACOBESCU, The Center of Bukovinian Researches (April 24, 1992,

          Cernauti) ......................................................................................................... 313

CONSTANTIN SERBAN, The Symposium "The National Cultural Heritage".

          Medieval Art and Civilization (November 25-26, 1994, Suceava) ............................ 315

DUMITRU BOGHIAN, Inter-student Scientific Exchanges - Suceava-Cernauti .................. 318

ION COZMEI, The Cultural Foundation of Bukovina ....................................................... 320

VALERIA COZMA, Scientific Exchanges with Colleagues from the State

          University of Moldavian Republic ........................................................................ 325

EMMA PORFIREANU, Scientific Awards ..................................................................... 328

Le paleolithique et le neolithique de la Roumanie en contexte europeen,

          editat de Vasile Chirica si Dan Monah, Bibliotheca Archaeologica

          Iassiensis, IV, Iasi, 1991, 471 p. (Dumitru Boghian) .......................................... 329

Iuliu Paul, Cultura Petresti, Editura Museion, Bucuresti, 1992, 205 p. +

          2 tabele + LIX planse (Dumitru Boghian) .......................................................... 333

Nicolae Ursulescu, Dacia in cadrul lumii antice, Editura Unirea, Iasi,

          1992, 60 p. + X planse de text (Dumitru Boghian) ............................................. 336

Mircea D. Matei, Civilizatie urbana medievala romaneasca. Contributii

          (Suceava pana la mijlocul secolului al XVI-lea), Editura Academiei,

          Bucuresti, 1989, 222 p (Constantin Serban) ..................................................... 338

Olimpia Mitric, Cartea romaneasca veche in judetul Suceava (1643-1830) .

          Catalog, vol. I si II, Suceava, 1992, 1993, 96 + 145 p (Florin Pintescu) ................ 342

Constantin A. Stoide, Ioan Caprosu, Relatiile economice ale Moldovei

          cu Brasovul. De la inceputul secolului al XVIII-lea pana la 1850, Editura

          Universitas, Chisinau, 1992, 352 p. (Mihai-Stefan Ceausu) ................................ 344

Dr. Daniel Werenka, Topographie der Bukowina zur Zeit ihrer Erwerbung

          durch Oesterreich (1774-1785). Nach Acten aus folgenden Archiven: K.u.K.

          Kreigministerium, dessen Kartenarchiv, K.u.K. Ministerium fur Cultus und

          Unterricht, Czernowitz, 1895, 272 p + 1 Karte (Constantin Serban) .................... 348

*** Ion Nistor (1876-1962), volum îngrijit de Al. Zub, tabel cronologic,

          Bibliografie si indice de nume de Mihai-Stefan Ceausu, Editura Universitatii

          "Al. I. Cuza", Iasi, 1993, 147 p. (Constantin Serban) ......................................... 353

Ion Nistor, Istoria Bucovinei, Editie si studiu bio-bibliografic de Stelian Neagoe,

          Editura Humanitas, Bucuresti, XXXIV + 453 p (Doina Huzdup) ............................ 355

Mihai Iacobescu, Din istoria Bucovinei, vol. I (1774-1862). De la

          administratia militara la autonomia provinciala, Editura Academiei

          Romane, Bucuresti, 1993, 550 p. (Florin Pintescu) ........................................... 358

Gh. Platon, V. Russu, Gh. Iacob, V. Cristian, I. Agrigoroaiei, Cum s-a infaptuit

          Romania moderna, Editura Universitatii "Al. I. Cuza", Iasi, 1993,

          368 p. (Doina Huzdup) .................................................................................... 363

Liviu Maior, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod intre Belvedere si Versailles

          (insemnari, memorii, scrisori), Editura Sincron, Bucuresti, 1993,

          295 p. (Mihai Iacobescu) ................................................................................ 366

Constantin Buse, Nicolae Dascalu, Nicolae Iorga si revizionismul maghiar.

          Culegere de articole, studii si discursuri parlamentare (1918-1940),

          Editura Universitatii, Bucuresti, 1993, 225 p. (Mihai Iacobescu) .......................... 369

I.Ciuperca, Opozitie si putere in Romania anilor 1922-1928, Editura

          Universitatii "Al. I. Cuza", Iasi, 1994, 297 p. (Emma Porfireanu) ......................... 371

ABREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................ 374

GENERAL INDEX ...................................................................................................... 376