Letter from Stephen the Great and Saint ................................................................................ 3

DUMITRU BOGHIAN, The Evolution of the Human Habitat around the Town

          of Suceava until the Constitution of the Medieval Town ................................................... 5

NICOLAE URSULESCU, DUMITRU BOGHIAN, The Main Results

          of the Archaeological Researches in the Precucutenian Site of Targu Frumos ................ 13

MIHAI LAZAR, Historiographic Aspects about the Fiscal Regime of the

          Cattle-Breeders in Moldavia ....................................................................................... 43

OLIMPIA MITRIC, Scriptoria, Scriveners and North-Moldavian Manuscripts

          in Romanian (the XVIth - XIXth Centuries) .................................................................... 65

GHEORGHE MOLDOVEANU, The Romanian Language in Bukovina in the Period

          of the Military Form of Government ............................................................................. 83

MIHAI STEFAN CEAUSU, The Ethno-demographic Evolution in Bukovina

          (the XVIIth - XIXth Centuries) ..................................................................................... 99

CONSTANTIN UNGUREANU, The Jews in Bukovina ............................................................ 105

STEFAN PURICI, Dacian-Romanianism and Regionalism at the Romanians

          of the 1848-1849's Bukovina .................................................................................... 115

DUMITRU VITCU, The Europe of the 1848's Generation ........................................................ 125

GHEORGHE CLIVETI, Romania and "the South-East Crisis" (1878-1913).

          Arguments for a new approach ................................................................................. 145

MIHAI AURELIAN CARUNTU, The Native of Bukovina Refugees Drama (1940-1941) ............... 153

MIRCEA IGNAT, Did "the Great Dacians" existed? (Oracula Sibyllina, XII, 180-181) ................ 171

MIRCEA PAHOMI, Catholic Churches and Monasteries from Siret in the XIVth - XVth

          Centuries ............................................................................................................... 175

VICTOR DOBRESCU, Cernauca - a Symbol of the Romanian National Unity ......................... 181

CONSTANTIN UNGUREANU, The Church Reform in Bukovina and its Traces

          for the Native of Bukovina Romanians ....................................................................... 187

CONSTANTIN SERBAN, The Putna Feast in 1871 and its Echo in the Media of Bucharest ..... 193

GEORGE OSTAFI, Stephen the Great's commemoration at Putna and Suceava in 1904 ........ 199

VICTOR DOBRESCU, "The Normal School for Boys in Cernauti" refugee at Siret,

          Radauti county, Memories ....................................................................................... 205

IOAN SCRIPCARIUC, The Drama of the "Bucovina's Archives" refuge .................................... 211

SIMONA PAVELIUC, Some Aspects about the ceangai from the Tazlau Sub-Carpathians ...... 217

VASILE VASILE, The Musical School from Putna ............................................................... 223

VASILE DEMCIUC, The Mitropolitan Petru Movila - 400 Years since his Birth ........................ 231

NICOLAE CÂRLAN, Petru Movila - a Faithful Son of the Romanian Nation ............................. 237

MIRCEA PAHOMI, The School of the Putna Monastery between the XVth and XVIth

          Centuries ............................................................................................................... 241

VASILE DEMCIUC, The Activity of Grigorie Tamblac in Moldavia ........................................... 247

VASILE VASILE, Ciprian Porumbescu - Educator ............................................................... 259

ILIE RAD, Aron Pumnul - Founder of the Romanian Middle-School Pupils' Library

          in Cernauti ............................................................................................................. 263

GHEORGHE MOLDOVEANU, Nicolai Gramada - a Specialist in Toponymy .......................... 277

GHEORGHE GIURCA, Titu Maiorescu and the Cultural Life in Bukovina ................................ 235

PAVEL TUGUI, The Poet Teofil Dumbraveanu ..................................................................... 293

ELENA BRÂNDUSA STEICIUC, The I. E. Toroutiu's Management at "Convorbiri Literare" ........ 297

CONSTANTIN SERBAN, Teofil Sauciuc Saveanu (1884-1971) .............................................. 301

EMIL SATCO, Natives of Bukovina in the Personalities' Forum .............................................. 305

GAVRIL IRIMESCU, Two Letters from Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi kept in the Suceava's Archives .... 311

HARIETA MARECI, 1940 - The Betrayed Generation (Teodor Balan: the Drama

          of an Intellectual. Letters from Radu Rosetti) ............................................................. 321

MIRCEA STRUGARIU, Economical Situations and Problems in the1919/1925's Bukovina ....... 327

STEFAN PURICI, Some Notes on the Volume of Studies "From the Historical Past

          of Bukovina (A Collection of Papers)", Cernauti, 1996, 250 p. ...................................... 341

MIHAI IACOBESCU, The Schwaben - Suceava - Cernauti Partnership ................................... 345

LEONIDE OUSPENSKY, The Theology of the Icon in the Orthodox Church, Paris,

          CERF, 1980 (translated by ADRIANA MIHAELA GROSU) .......................................... 351

HARIETA MARECI, "The Borderland School" (14-19 June 1996, Sejny, Poland) ..................... 375

STEFAN PURICI, "The Iasi's Academical Days" (the XIIth Edition, 10-11 October 1997,

          Radauti - Siret - Balinesti) ....................................................................................... 376

MIHAI LAZAR, Dissertation on the History of Bukovina (7 March 1997) .................................. 377

FLORIN CONSTANTINU, O istorie sincera a poporului român (Mihai Iacobescu) .................. 379

Enciclopedia arheologiei si istoriei vechi a României, coordonator stiintific

          Constantin Preda, Ed. Enciclopedica, Bucuresti, 1994, 1996 (Mircea Ignat) ............... 383

Mircea Babes, Die Poienesti - Lukasevka Kultur, Bonn, 1993, 248 p. (Mircea Ignat) ............. 384

          Eugen Comsa, Figurinele antropomorfe din epoca neolitica pe teritoriul României,

          Ed. Academiei Române, Bucuresti, 1995, 129 p. (Dumitru Boghian) ......................... 386

Vasile Neamtu, Istoria orasului Baia, Iasi, 1997, 250 p. (Mihai Iacobescu) ........................... 389

Francisc Pall, Romanians of Transilvania in the Middle Ages, Cluj Napoca, 1993,

          40 p. (Costantin Serban) ....................................................................................... 390

Mircea Grigorovita, Din istoria colonizarii Bucovinei, Bucuresti, 1996, 160 p.

          (Rodica Iatencu) ................................................................................................... 391

Lucian Boia, Istorie si mit în constiinta româneasca, Bucuresti, 1997 (Mihai Iacobescu) ....... 392

Frederik Kellogg, O istorie a istoriografiei române, Iasi, 1997, 180 p. (Harieta Mareci) ........... 393

Compendiu istoriografic al Liceului "Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi" din Radauti, Iasi, 1997,

          380 p. (Mihai Iacobescu) ....................................................................................... 395

Valeriu Cozma, Universitatea de stat din Moldova, 1946-1996, Chisinau, 594 p.

          (Mihai Iacobescu) ................................................................................................. 396

Jacques Rider, Mitteleuropa, Iasi, 1997, 163 p. (Mihai Iacobescu) ....................................... 398

Petru Russindilar, Hurmuzachestii în viata culturala si politica a Bucovinei, Iasi,

          1995, 230 p. (Constantin Serban) .......................................................................... 400

Ioan Saizu, Eminescu cât vesnicia, Iasi, 1997, 176 p. (Gavril Irimescu) ............................... 401

MIHAI IACOBESCU, The Historian Nichita Adaniloaie .......................................................... 403

MIHAI IACOBESCU, Dimitrie Vatamaniuc ........................................................................... 419

***, The Declaration of the Men of Science and Culture from Suceava .................................... 427

DUMITRU CUCU, The Repolarization of the Cultural Life in Bukovina ..................................... 429

LETTERS FROM THE READERS ...................................................................................... 433

THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE of the History Department in the "Stefan cel Mare" University

          of Suceava between 1993-1997 ................................................................................ 435