Date Compiled: 2026-04-12

Neagoe Basarab

Type: Historical person (ruler of Wallachia, c. 1512-1521)

Author of Invataturile catre fiul sau Theodosie (Instructions to his son Theodosie) — one of the most important works of early Romanian political thought. Draws on Old Testament kingship and Byzantine imperial ideology.

See also: byzantine-political-ideology, paranetic-genre, exemplarity