Medieval Urban Autonomy of Câmpulung Muscel and Its Realignment in the Modern Period

The study aims to analyze the profound mutations that the urban autonomy of Câmpulung underwent at the dawn of modernity in Wallachia. The town’s medieval privileges, which its judges made sure to renew periodically, were immortalized in stone on the Cross of the Oath in the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century, the charters were collected and copied into a collection known as the Cloth of the Town of Câmpulung and confirmed by Prince Constantin Mavrocordatos in 1747. The Organic Regulations of 1831–1832 introduced administrative changes that undermined the old notions of “townsman” and “town privileges” and reconfigured the community of landowners.