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Nobility, land and service in medieval Hungary

Title
Nobility, land and service in medieval Hungary / Martyn Rady.
Author
Rady, Martyn C.
Publication
New York : Palgrave : In association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 2000.

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University of London. School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Description
xv, 231 pages : map; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary is the first western-language account of medieval landholding and noble society in Hungary. Rady indicates that, although all noble land was held of the ruler, a complex web of relationships still permeated the Hungarian nobility. Among the institutions which the author discusses are clientage, office-holding and military retaining, the noble kindred and county community, the settlement of disputes, law-finding, record-keeping and inquisitions.
  • Rady challenges the view that Hungarian noble society was qualitatively different from its western counterparts. Such differences as existed were ones of degree rather than kind. Moreover, Rady indicates that the medieval Hungarian nobility was never as numerous as is usually maintained. Rady's account extends from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries and includes studies of noble society in Slavonia, the Slovak Highlands and Transylvania."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Studies in Russia and East Europe
Uniform Title
Studies in Russia and East Europe.
Subject
  • Nobility > Hungary > History > To 1500
  • Feudalism > Hungary > History > To 1500
  • Hungary > History > 1000-1699
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
Contents
1. The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- 2. Origins of the Hungarian Nobility -- 3. Territorial Lordship -- 4. Authentication -- 5. Conditional Nobles -- 6. The Kindred and the Quarter -- 7. Familiaritas -- 8. Offices and Honores -- 9. Military Obligation -- 10. Counties and Corporations.
ISBN
  • 0333800850
  • 0312235828
LCCN
00041491
OCLC
  • ocm44133043
  • SCSB-14086174
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries