ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to manifest the constructed nature of the nation state as a truth. A genealogical approach, therefore, differs considerably from archaeology, which does not dare to question preconceived truths, and in fact often imposes a monotonous finality to history. The decline in the feudalistic system also affected the essence of sovereignty and from this period sovereignty entered a process of metamorphosis, as the divine sovereign authority began to be replaced by "the Enigma of Representation". In the Middle Ages the feudal system based on kinship and common law ruled. The formations of centralist monarchies did, however, to a greater or lesser degree, occur in all European states, and thereby laid the foundation for the eventual development of nationalism. Between the ninth and eleventh century much of Bosnia and Herzegovina was incorporated in the kingdoms of both Serbia and Croatia and even Macedonia.
