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The Danubian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia were important centers in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. In the borderland between the Christian Orthodox and Islamic Ottoman worlds, they functioned as nodes of political, cultural and religious mobility. In this system, mobile monks and churchmen were of particular importance. In a research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, church and religious historian Dr. Mihai-Dumitru Grigore traces the lives of four Orthodox churchmen from Antioch to Moscow and traces how they influenced the processes of rule in a vast transimperial space. For at that time, the rule was: No politics without religion. No politics without monks.