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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW ON ROMANIAN NATIONALISM - THE ROMANIAN MEDIEVAL NATION. ROMANIAN ETHNIC SOLIDARITIES IN THE XIIITH-XIVTH CENTURIES BY IOAN-AUREL POP. BUCHAREST: ENCYCLOPEDIC PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1998..

Authors:  MIHAI OLARU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   “The Romanian medieval nation” is in fact a continuation of the work Ioan-Aurel Pop dedicated to the medieval nation in Europe. The conceptual framework of the first book is applied to the Romanian realities. The term of nation corresponds today with the national state (a basic unity of the international system), but the ancient meanings of natio are different: an ethnographic group and, later, a privileged social group which detains power. As towards the end of the Middle Ages nation acquires more and more ethnic characteristics and groups often appear as ethnic cohesions, it is naturally legitimate to speak about the medieval nation, which does not have the proportions of the modern nation. At the same time, there are two reasons which motivate this work: a scientific reason (the past of contemporary nations has to be known as a historical event and it is a subject for research in itself) and a moral reason (avoiding the errors from the past).  
         
     
         
         
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