Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle Megjelenés éve: 2018 Oldalszám: 220 Kötés: kötve színes táblákkal ISBN: 9789633862612 1. kiadás darab

The present volume of studies—a joint publication with the National Széchényi Library, Budapest—is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series, accompanying CEMT vol. IX on the Illuminated Chronicle, composed in the fourteenth century at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. The large size of the volume, with the text and its annotations, did not permit the inclusion of a detailed scholarly introduction, unlike other CEMT items, so it is here printed separately. The first essays analyze the text and the illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle (formerly called the Vienna Chronicle) from literary-historical, art historical and heraldic perspectives. They also summarize the literature on the chronicle for the past two hundred years. Additional studies address the narrative. Since the chronicle starts with the history of the Huns, the imaginary ancestors of the Hungarians, one essay addresses the Attila tradition in Hungarian historiography. Others devote attention to the dynastic struggles of the eleventh century, placing them in the context of amicitia and deditio, and to the image of St. Ladislas I as the “ideal king”. The final essays examine the fate of the fourteenth-century chronicle texts over the subsequent centuries, their appearance in legal texts, and their reception abroad. Preface Abbreviations List of Illustrations Orsolya Karsay: The Codex of the Illuminated Chronicle János M. Bak and Ryszard Grzesik: The Text of the Chronicle of the deeds of the Hungarians Ernő Marosi: The Illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle György Rácz: The Heraldry of Angevin-age Hungary and its Reflections in the Illuminated Chronicle Martyn Rady: Attila and the Hun Tradition in Hungarian Medieval Texts Dániel Bagi: The dynastic conflicts of the eleventh century in the Illuminated Chronicle Kornél Szovák: The Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St Ladislas and the Illuminated Chronicle) Balázs Kertész: The Afterlife of the Fourteenth-Century Chronicle Compositions