Hungary Under the Early Arpads, 890s to 1063

by Kosztolnyik, Z. J.

• ISBN13: 9780880335034
• ISBN10: 0880335033
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: East European Monographs

Summary

A distinguished scholar of medieval history covers the early history of the Magyars, their migration to and settlement in the mid-Danubian region, the clash of the Roman Church with the hierarchy of the emerging German empire over Pannonia, the marauding ventures in the Latin West and the Byzantine southeast, the emergence of the Hungarian regnum under King St. Stephen, Hungarian law and domestic turmoil in the earlier half of the eleventh century and the reign of Andrew I and Bela I.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Family Pedigrees	xi
List of Abbreviations	xiv
Magyar Beginnings	1	(22)
Early Magyar-Byzantine Relations in the View of the Byzantine Court and of the Byzantine Chroniclers	23	(22)
The Question of Belonging	45	(38)
The Imperial Church and the Papal Curia	45	(14)
Unfriendly Magyar Reaction to the Missionary Politics of Pilgrim of Passau	59	(24)
The Arrival of the Magyars in the Mid-Danubian Carpathian Basin	83	(30)
King Stephen's Christian Kingdom	113	(46)
The Country's First Catholic Monarch	113	(14)
The Monarch Asserts his Leadership	127	(32)
The King as Lawgiver	159	(36)
The Background: The Three Vitae of King Stephen	159	(6)
Royal Legislative Acts	165	(11)
Non-Magyar Historical Sources on the Establishment of Christianity in Hungary	176	(19)
Law and the King	195	(42)
The Influence of Canon Law on Hungarian Laws in the Eleventh Century	195	(18)
The Influence of Canon Law on Royal Legislation and the Education of Churchmen in Hungary during the XII--XIII Centuries	213	(24)
King Stephen's Administrative Policies	237	(28)
The Rome-Oriented Centralizing Policy of the Royal Court, and Its Possible Failure, in the Light of Contemporary Sources, and the Reliability of the Historical Evidence	265	(28)
The Monarch Who Reigned and Ruled	293	(34)
Time of Troubles: Peter Orseolo and Samuel Aba	327	(30)
The Succession to King Stephen's Inheritance	327	(5)
The First Reign of Peter the Orseolo, 1038--1041	332	(6)
The Orseolo's Second Kingship, 1044--1046	338	(19)
Kings Andrew I and Bela I	357	(38)
Henry III's Refusal of Andrew's Offer	357	(15)
The Reign of King Bela I: The Representative Royal Council	372	(4)
Anastasia Flees to the German Court. The Burial of Bela I	376	(7)
The Aftermath	383	(12)
Appendix: The Monomachos Crown, Domestic Intrigue and Diplomatic Reality Prevalent at the Hungarian Court during the Mid-Eleventh Century	395	(18)
Bibliography	413	(32)
Index	445