ISBN:
9783631648667
Language:
English
Pages:
516 S.
Series Statement:
Eastern and Central European studies Vol. 4
Series Statement:
Eastern and central European studies
DDC:
305.8009439
Keywords:
Geschichte 1200-1400
;
Romanians History To 1500
;
Romanians Social conditions
;
Romanians Religion
;
Community life History To 1500
;
Borderlands History To 1500
;
Power (Social sciences) History To 1500
;
Schism Eastern and Western Church
;
History
;
Ungarn
;
Rumänen
;
Hungary Ethnic relations
;
History
;
Hungary Church history
;
Hungary History 1000-1699
;
Ungarn
;
Rumänen
;
Geschichte 1200-1400
Description / Table of Contents:
How could the mechanism of power in the Middle Ages be understoodAn explanation: Why the Romanians and their country (countries) have two names -- Between grandeur and decadence : Hungary during the last Árpádian century and the new Angevin century -- The others and power : ethnicities and religions in mediaeval Hungary and Transylvania (up until the fourteenth century) -- "Masters of our own land for a thousand years" : the ancientness of the Romanians as portrayed by the official documents -- The Fourth Crusade (1203-1204) or the Western method of eradicating the "schism" -- The elite of the Romanians in and around Transylvania in the tenth-thirteenth centuries : landowners, fighters and political leaders -- Transylvanian (Hungarian) feudalism or sui-generis organisation? -- Land and power : the official landholding mechanism in the Kingdom of Hungary -- Knezes and their status as rulers and owners in the Romanian world -- "Within their true, right and ancient boundaries" : the grounds of the Romanian knezes' and nobles' landholding rights -- "Liberties, uses, services and duties" of the knezes and of knezial villages -- Power deprivation : dispossessed knezes and subdued Romanian villages -- How the Romanians lived with the Hungarians, the Saxons and the Szeklers in the Middle Ages -- "Our loyal guests" : the image of the outlanders or foreigners in Transylvania and Hungary -- Outgoing Romanians, incoming Romanians, or the limits of mediaeval mobility -- The image of the Romanian countries in the Hungarian consciousness and its impact on the status of the Transylvanian Romanians -- "As the Romanians call it, in folk parlance" : the Romanian onomastics and toponymy -- The Romanians position regarding the Western Church and the position of the Western Church regarding the Romanians -- From acceptance to exclusion : Romanians and Transylvania's estate assemblies in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The consequences of excluding the "schismatics," the "knezes" and the "Vlachs" from the estates in the Middle Ages -- The end -- Essential Chronology -- Romanian or Romanian-origin dignitaries (office holders) in Transylvania and Hungary (13th and 14th centuries) -- Historiography.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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