Stat și națiune în evul mediu românesc
State and Nation in the Romanian Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: This short article is an unpublished contribution proposed by Şerban Papacostea to a large-scale collective work, planned in the early 1980’s by the Institute for South-Eastern European Studies. The project, entitled The Place of Romanians in the Universal History, aimed to make use of one of Iorga’s suggestions, hence its title. Şerban Papacostea accepted to collaborate and to submit an article, which was discovered by Andrei Pippidi, one of the editors of the abandoned project, in his personal archive. Professor Pippidi kindly accepted to write a brief notice and to explain the scholarly and political context of the original project. Şerban Papacostea declined the initial invitation to write about the Romanians’ connections with Poland-Lithuania, but chose instead a topic that interested him the most: the national foundations of the two medieval states, of Wallachia and Moldavia. This brief study, rather a draft than a concluded version, brings to light a long-forgotten scholarly project. Additionally, it helps the understanding of Şerban Papacostea’s historical thought by making known an intermediary sketch of his ideas on the national roots of medieval Wallachia and Moldavia.

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