„Noi nu suntem urmașii Romei”. Les interférences identitaires dans l’espace roumain au prisme de l’histoire et de l’archéologie, du XIXe siècle à nos jours
„Noi nu suntem urmașii Romei”. Identitary Interferences in the Romanian Lands through the Lens of History and Archaeology, from the 19th Century to the Present Day

Summary/Abstract: The issue of identity has always played a considerable role in Romanian culture and it has constantly aroused interest among the numerous scholars who have been working on this subject. Thus, the search for the origins of the Romanian people – their ethnogenesis – has been lying at the very heart of the discussion for several centuries. Indeed, it is from the 16th century that Moldavian chroniclers mention and claim the Latin origin of both the Romanians and their language. This assertion will be continued by the Transylvanian School at the turn of the 19th century and overly magnified by the Latinist movement. Then, we are witnessing a turnaround in which the Dacians begin to be taken into consideration both from a literary and historic perspective. The peak of this interest for the Dacians is attained once Nicolae Densușianu publishes “Prehistoric Dacia”, the Bible of the Protochronists, that mixes mythology, folklore, linguistics and history. The enthusiasm for the Dacian origin did not diminish in the following decades and it is here that the question of defining the “national specific” – torn between Romans, Dacians and Slavs – arises. That is why we aim at studying, especially in the light of archaeology, in what way these contrasts are articulated and how the intellectuals have been attempting either to combine them or to oppose them against each other.

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