Decline of nations in Middle Ages
In the previous article I described that nations has existed for thousands of years and the national identity and even national cleanliness was a very important factor amongst developed antique states. The idea that nations are merely a social construct of the 19th century is therefore completely mistaken. Yet it seems that after the fall of the Roman Empire the national awareness disappeared only to be found again centuries later. Aim of this article is to describe the social situation during the Middle Ages in order to understand , which players shaped the form of a society back then and why the national awareness almost completely disappeared .