Marian Coman

Marian Coman is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Bucharest and Researcher at the „Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy; MA in Medieval Studies, Central European University (2002); PhD in History, University of Bucharest (2012); Chevening Scholar, Oriel College, University of Oxford (2006), New Europe College fellow (2007). His PhD thesis, published in 2013, was entitled „Power and Territory. The Making of Medieval Wallachia” (awarded “Nicolae Bălcescu” prize of the Romanian Academy and ”Nicolae Iorga” prize of the Romanian Society of Historical Sciences). Areas of specialization: late medieval state-building, history of cartography and travel writing in late medieval and Renaissance Europe.