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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2013  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS: MARIAN COMAN, PUTERE ŞI TERITORIU. ŢARA ROMÂNEASCĂ MEDIEVALĂ (SECOLELE XIV-XVI), POLIROM, IAŞI, 2013, 357 PP.

Authors:  MIHAI OLARU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The author of this book sets out to demonstrate that medieval Wallachia, far from being a well integrated and territorial state, was a form of rulership characterized by personal ties between the rulers and various social groups. At first sight, this is a commonplace: it is known that premodern polities were characterized by loose territoriality and personal relationships between rulers and (some of the) ruled. Yet, most of Romanian historians, although acknowledging in principle the premodern character of medieval Wallachia, treated it in their writings as a modern, territorially articulated from of power. Hence, the principal merit of Marian Coman is that he exposed and cogently contested the assumption of a territorial, quasi-modern Wallachian state in the middle ages.  
         
     
         
         
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