Rustics as Instruments of God’s Wrath. News about the Battle of “Posada” in the Ordensland of Prusia

Far from being an illustration of the struggle for freedom in the 14th century, the earliest accounts of the military events taking place in Wallachia in 1330 to be found in the supplement to the chronicle of Peter of Dusburg and in its translation by Nicolaus of Jeroschin highlight an unusual chain of communication between the Ordensland in Prussia and the Kingdom of Hungary, which predates the coronation of the Hungarian king Louis I as king of Poland by a few decades. The news about the defeat suffered by Louis’s father, Charles I, at the hands of the Vlachs may have reached Prussia through aristocratic, if not royal mediation, which explains such details as the name of the Hungarian captain to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in a vision. On the other hand, the received news were recast in a version that put to good work some of the main themes in the current-event reports at that time.collections. It primarily examines the role of the specialized periodicals focused on foreign countries, for cultural propaganda purposes, while also considering historical sketches, museum catalogs, and academic journals. The article also delves deeper into the content of the late 1950s Bulletin of the Commission of Monuments and Museums, alongside with the compelling topic of museums/objects of religious art. Following 1948, communist Romania assumed an atheistic stance, influenced by the USSR; consequently its State Museum of Religious Art ceased to exist.