GENEZA ORAȘULUI MOLDOVENESC. STUDIU DE CAZ – ORAȘUL BACĂU (SECOLELE XV-XVIII)
Genesis of the Moldavian City. Case study - Bacău city (XVth-XVIIIth centuries)

Summary/Abstract: With a documented history of over six centuries, Bacău county can not boast too rich historiographic dowry. In the case of monographic works, the situation is almost dramatic: although 609 years have passsed since its first documentary attestation, only eight monographic works have been written about Bacău county.If the volumes written in the first half of the 20th century have a pronounced memorial character, being dominated by the lack of scientific rigor - a fact that can be explained, first of all, by the authors' amateurism - the monographs published in the second half of the last century are characterized by a type of nationalism specific to communist ideology.All these writings assume an undeniable urban status of Bacău since the fifteenth century, along with its first historical attestation. Bacău has been constituted as a town from its very starting point, seem to unanimously affirm the local medievalists, and until now nobody dared to challenge this direction of local historiography.What strikes, however, is the discrepancy between this real ”taboo” and the fragility of its arguments. None of the adherents of Bacau's real urbanism theory tries to define or even explain the concept of "city". Equally silent are the approaches aimed at the demographic evolution of the medieval town, its insignificant economic pulsation and, in particular, the inhibitory relationship of the Bacău inhabitants with political power

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