Course aims:

This course aims to introduce Archeology students to the main topics describing the historical development of the Romanians since the Early Middle Ages to the late sixteenth century.
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Course Entry Requirements:

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Course contents:

Introduction in the medieval history of Romanians. The sources. Unwritten sources. Written sources: narrative, diplomatic, cartographic, ethnographic and folklore; The migrations and the ethnogenesis of Romanians. Greutungs and Ostrogoths. Huns. The question of ethnogenesis in the Middle Ages. Formation of the Romanian language The last migrations. The Magyars, Pechenegues, Cumans, and Uzes; The formation of the Hungarian Christian Kingdom. The conquest and organization of Transylvania by Hungarians. The colonization of Szeklers in Transylvania. The colonization of Saxons in Transylvania; The society of Transylvania between the ten and fourteenth centuries. The formation of nobility. The formation and development of urban settlements in Hungary and Transylvania; The Romanian principalities in the fourteenth century. Wallachia from Basarab I to Mircea the Old. Moldova in the second half of the fourteenth century. Mircea the Old’s rule in Wallachia; The international political situation and the Romanian Lands in the fifteenth century. The emergence of the Ottoman Porte. The Kingdom of Hungary in the first half of the fifteenth century. The age of John Hunyadi (1437-1457). The second half of the fifteenth century; The political situation of Wallachia in the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries; Moldova in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; The medieval institutions in the Romanian Lands. The central government institutions. The prince. The princely council and the assembly of estates; The medieval institutions in the Romanian Lands. The territorial administrative organization of Wallachia and Moldova. The ecclesiastic organization. The military organization. The medieval institutions in the Romanian Lands. The voivodate of Transylvania and the eastern parts of the kingdom of Hungary. The territorial administrative organization of the voivodate of Transylvania, counties, Szekler and Saxon seats and districts.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification, debate, sources analysis

Learning outcomes:

retrieval of written sources on the historical past; establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; oral and written presentation in English of the specific discipline knowledge; concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Oral exam – 50%; Seminary activities – 30%; Final paper – 20%.

Recommended reading:

Curta, Florin, The Making of the Slavs. The History and Archaelogy of Lower Danube Region c. 500-700, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Deletant, Dennis, „Ethnos and Mythos in the history of Transylvania: the Case of the Chronicler Anonymus”, in Romanian Civilization, no. 1, Iaşi, 1992, p. 1-16.
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