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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2000  
         
  Article:   THE ROMANIAN AREA AS FRONTIER-SPACE IN THE THINTEENTH CENTURY.

Authors:  ŞERBAN TURCUŞ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Romanian Area As Frontier-Space in the Thinteenth Century.The study offers a new methodological and interpretative perspective and deals with the questions concerning the Romanian area not as an abstract political-institutional entity, but as a much more dynamic reality, whose political, ethnic, denominational and institutional complexity does not need the rigorous generalizations of either Romanian or Hungarian historiography. The frontier discussed here is in fact a territorial strip of land that goes from the Tisza to the Dnieper, including the Romanian area and not only . Starting from the source analysis, the author surveys the penetration of Western institution in this area in the 13th century and concludes that besides the instinctual drive for conquest of the Hungarians (like any tribal population) in the times of the Arpadian dynasty, the progress of Western institutions is chiefly due to the Roman Church and its institutional vision of the world as Christianitas.  
         
     
         
         
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