Herrschaft, Territorium, Grenze. Die mittelalterliche Walachei im Fokus der modernen rumänischen Historiographie
Governance, Territory, Frontier. Medieval Wallachia in the Focus of Modern Romanian Historiography

Summary/Abstract: Marian COMAN, Putere și teritoriu. Ţara Românească medievală (secolele XIV-XVI) [Herrschaft und Territorium. Die mittelalterliche Walachei (14.-16. Jahrhundert)]. Iași: Polirom 2013 (Historia). 357 S., Abb., ISBN 978-973-46-3403-3, RON 27,95 The text reviews the book by Marian Coman on Power and territory in medieval Wallachia. Th e book shows that Wallachia before the late 16th century has not been organised on the basis of territoriality. The power of its rulers was rather based on a network of social links. Medieval Wallachia did not have clear-cut borders, but rather diffuse frontier-zones that were not closed than in the late 16th century. Th e author presents detailed research of the three frontier-zones of Wallachia: the frontier towards neighboring Moldavia, the Carpathian frontier bordering Transylvania, and the Danube, separating Wallachia from the Ottoman Empire, at least symbolically.

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