This paper discusses the Romanian process of constitutional modernisation against the background of Romanian elites’ quest for identity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It considers why Romanian national and constitutional identity was shaped by multiple competing narratives constructed by the Romanian intelligentsia and it explores the best methodological tools to assess this process. This article briefly evaluates the methodological resources of comparative legal history and global legal history and strongly emphasises the acute need for greater interdisciplinarity. Social sciences may provide a necessary analytical background, facilitating an approach to Romanian constitutional history, comparatively (in space), historically (in time), and psycho-sociologically (in minds).
Manuel Guţan (Mon,) studied this question.