Victor Spinei

Victor Spinei (born 26 October 1943) is Emeritus Professor of history and archaeology at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and titular member of the Romanian Academy. He is a specialist on the history of Moldavia and the Moldavian people in the Early and High Middle Ages, the history of migratory peoples in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during this period, and the production and circulation of cult objects in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during the Middle Ages.

Education He was born in Lozova, Lăpușna County, Kingdom of Romania, the son of Alexe Spinei and Nadejda Spinei ( Boțan). In 1961 Spinei graduated from the Costache Negruzzi High School in Iasi. In 1966 he received a Bachelor of Science in History and Philosophy from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, after which he specialised at the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology from Saarland University (1973–1974).

He is member of several editorial boards, including Arheologia Moldovei, Dacia, Historia Urbana, Studii și Cercetări de Istorie Veche și Arheologie, Res Historica, and Acta Euroasiatica; he also founded and coordinates several academic book series published by the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and the Romanian Academy.

Since 2012 he has been a member of the Commission for History and Cultural Studies of the Romanian National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates.

Honors and awards (selected) Nicolae Iorga Award of the Romanian Academy (1982) Doctor Honoris Causa of Moldova State University, Chișinău (2012) Professor Emeritus of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași (2012) Order of the Star of Romania, Knight rank (2017)

Selected works

Monographs

In Romanian Moldova în secolele XI-XIV, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 1982. Spinei, Realități etnice și politice în Moldova Meridională în secolele X-XIII. Români și turanici, Editura Junumea, Iași, 1985. Marile migrații din estul și sud-estul Europei în secolele IX-XIII, Editura Institutului European, Iași, 1999.

In English Moldavia in the 11th-14th Centuries, Editura Academiei Române, București, 1986. The Great Migrations in the East and South East of Europe from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Century, first edition: Romanian Cultural Institute, Cluj-Napoca, 2003, ; second edition: Hakkert Publisher, Amsterdam, 2006, (volume 1) and (volume 2). The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century, Brill, Leiden–Boston, 2009.

In French Les Princes Martyrs Boris et Gleb. Iconographie et Canonisation, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2011. Mongolii și românii în sinteza de istorie ecleziastică a lui Tholomeus din Lucca / Les Mongols et les Roumains dans la synthèse d’histoire ecclesiastique de Tholomeus de Lucca, Editura Universității "Al. I. Cuza", Iași, 2012.

Edited volumes

Studies