Research Catalog

Title

Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle / edited by János M. Bak and László Veszprémy.

Publication

• Budapest : Central European University Press : National Széchényi Library, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bak, János M.,
• Veszprémy, László,

Description

xii, 206 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The present volume of studies--a joint publication with the National Szechenyi Library, Budapest--is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series, accompanying CEMT vol. IX on the Illuminated Chronicle, composed in the fourteenth century at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. The large size of the volume, with the text and its annotations, did not permit the inclusion of a detailed scholarly introduction, unlike other CEMT items, so it is here printed separately. The first essays analyze the text and the illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle (formerly called the Vienna Chronicle) from literary-historical, art historical and heraldic perspectives. They also summarize the literature on the chronicle for the past two hundred years. Additional studies address the narrative. Since the chronicle starts with the history of the Huns, the imaginary ancestors of the Hungarians, one essay addresses the Attila tradition in Hungarian historiography. Others devote attention to the dynastic struggles of the eleventh century, placing them in the context of amicitia and deditio, and to the image of St. Ladislas I as the "ideal king". The final essays examine the fate of the fourteenth-century chronicle texts over the subsequent centuries, their appearance in legal texts, and their reception abroad.

Series Statement

Central European medieval texts. Subsidia ; 1

Uniform Title

Central European medieval texts. Subsidia ; 1.

Subjects

• Hungary
• Sources
• Kálti, Márkus, active 14th century > De gestis Hungarorum ab origine gentis ad a. 1300
• Hungary > History > 1000-1699 > Sources
• De gestis Hungarorum ab origine gentis ad a. 1300 (Kálti, Márkus)
• 1000-1699
• History

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in electronic format.

Contents

Codex of the Illuminated Chronicle / Orsolya Karsay -- Text of the Chronicle of the deeds of the Hungarians / Ryszard Grzesik -- Illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle / Erno Marosi -- Heraldry of Angevin-age Hungary and its Reflections in the Illuminated Chronicle / Gyorgy Racz -- Attila and the Hun Tradition in Hungarian Medieval Texts / Martyn Rady -- Dynastic Conflicts of the Eleventh Century in the Illuminated Chronicle / Daniel Bagi -- Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St. Ladislas and the Illuminated Chronicle) / Kornel Szovak -- Afterlife of the Fourteenth-Century Chronicle Compositions / Balazs Kertesz.

ISBN

• 9633862612
• 9633862620 (canceled/invalid)
• 9789633862629 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018945712

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries