The first testament of Maria Cantemir, from 1725

The purpose of our article is to research the fist testament of Maria Cantemir based on the biographical method and of the new historical discipline – women's history. The interdisciplinary approach in the analysis of the testament of Maria Cantemir allows us to highlight her personality, to show why it has been written, to explain the notional content and the traditionalism of the testaments of the first half of the 18th century, to observe the relations between her and her family members and also the relations between them, to try to understand the life style and the personal characteristics of a particular woman, the epoch's mentality, the level of the ethical and spiritual of the high society and much more. The concrete historical researches basically limit themselves to the observation of at least one of the aspects of the investigated matter, whilst the new methodological approaches have a synthetic way of interpreting the sources. In order to get the whole and comprehensive picture, we will proceed to the analysis of the first Testament of Maria Cantemir.