ISBN:
9783631648667
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (518 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version De manibus Valachorum scismaticorum ... : Romanians and Power in the Mediaeval Kingdom of Hungary The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
DDC:
305.8009439
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The medieval history of the Romanians in the Hungarian kingdom still represents one of the most delicate subjects in European history. This book is the product of more than thirty years of research, and thus provides new and balanced insights into that history, revealing both the rise and the decline of communities and individuals, as well as the diversity of these borderlands of Christian Europe
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Content; Introduction; 1. How could the mechanism of power in the Middle Ages be understood; 2. An explanation: why the Romanians and their country (countries) have two names; 3. Between grandeur and decadence: Hungary during the last Árpádian century and the new Angevin century; 4. The others and power: ethnicities and religions in mediaeval Hungary and Transylvania (Up until the fourteenth century); 4.1. Preliminaries; 4.2. How many Hungarians were there around the year 900 and what were they like?
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4.3. The written tradition on the ethnic composition of Pannonia and Transylvania during the pre-Magyar period.The Romanians4.4. The Romanians as they appear in the sources up until the fourteenth century; 4.5. New population groups coming to Hungary during the Árpádian period (the twelfth-thirteenth centuries); 4.6. A general overview of the ethnic groups in Hungary between the ninth and the fourteenth centuries; 4.7. "Christians", "schismatics", Jews, Muslims and other"pagans": confessions in Hungary until the beginning of the fourteenth century
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4.8. "How faithful and grateful to the Lord he was": Louis I's religious policy and its outcomes4.9. Conclusions; 5. "Masters of our own land for a thousandyears": The ancientness of the Romanians as portrayed by the official documents; 6. The Fourth Crusade (1203-1204) or the western method of eradicating the "schism"; 6.1. The Holy See's programme of rebuilding the ecclesiastical unity; 6.2. The perception of the action of 1204 in the public Byzantine mentality; 6.3. The policy of Innocent III (and his successors): placing the Church of the East under the aegis of the Roman Church
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6.4. Why the "schism" had to be eradicated (in InnocentIII's perspective)6.5. "The limbs of the Roman Church shall not disobey its custom": pathways to follow and obstacles to overcome in subjecting the East; 6.6. The religious policies in the Eastern regions dominated by the "Latin" crusaders; 6.7. The western policy in other states of the Byzantine Commonwealth; 6.8. Rome's policy regarding the Eastern Church and population in the Kingdom of Hungary; 6.9. Conclusions
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7. The elite of the Romanians in and around Transylvania in the tenth-thirteenth centuries-landowners, fighters and political leaders7.1. Romanian landowners dispossessed in the thirteenth century; 7.2. Romanian militaries in the thirteenth century; 7.3. Romanian political leaders in their "lands" (the thirteenthcentury); 7.4. Why did so many Romanians appear in the written records after 1200?; 8. Transylvanian (Hungarian) feudalism or suigeneris organisation?; 9. Land and power: the official landholding mechanism in the Kingdom of Hungary
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Knezes and their status as rulers and owners in the Romanian world
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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