Romeni „buoni“, romeni „cattivi“ L’immagine dei romeni nei documenti latino-ungheresi (sec. XIV)

Our study aims to illustrate how Romanians, and mainly their political elite, were reflected in 14th century documents, by the way they related to the kingdom’s central government, and to understand the reasons leading to the shaping of negative, or, as the case may be, positive images of Romanians. Our analysis and interpretation of documents took into account the internal and external circumstances of the time, the ethnic, confessional and political particuliarities of Romanians inside the kingdom, the two-centuries long shaping of positive or negative stereotypes about Romanians.