Abstract
The information selected by Ion Ionescu de la Brad is relevant to the as yet unwritten social history of the Romanians, especially in detailing some scientific issues that clearly differentiate the landed gentry as a social class: the share of landlords owned by landlords, the ranking of landlord categories, the condition of the landed gentry, the social-political condition of the landed elite, etc... Ion Ionescu de la Brad's conclusion, after an inventory of the landed villages in Mehedinți, was that, in 1864 (a year of fundamental changes in Romanian society), the landlords and landed estates in this part of the country still represented only about 25% of what they had been previously. Nevertheless, the "moșnenia" was a dignified social-historical state, of social freedoms, for which the emancipation and the vitality of the Romanian nation were being fought for. It is still alive today in the public consciousness, especially in the mountain counties of Mehedinți, Gorj, Valcea, etc.
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