Bővebb leírás
Tamás Pálosfalvy was born in 1968 in Budapest. He graduated in history at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. In 1994-1995 he studied at the Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale at the University of Poitiers, and obtained a DEA degree with a thesis on the lords of Lusignan. Since 1996 he has been working as a research fellow at the Institute of History (from 2012 Institute of History, Research Centre of the Humanities) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He defended his PhD thesis, which forms the basis of the present book, at the Central European University, Budapest, in 2012. His major fields of interest are the political and social history of Hungary in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a focus on the history of the medieval realm of Slavonia (today part of the Republic of Croatia). He has published and edited books (e. g. Nikápolytól Mohácsig, 1396-1526 [From Nicopolis to Mohács, 1396-1526], Budapest, 2005. A Hunyadiak kora, 1437-1490 [The Age of the Hunyadis, 1437-1490], Budapest, 2009) and several studies in leading Hungarian reviews. He also translated into English The Realm of St Stephen. A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526 by Pál Engel (I. B. Tauris, London, 2001).
