Skanderbeg

The reign of Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) is regarded not only as a last heyday of the medieval Hungarian state, but marks a most turbulent period of transition from medieval to modern times for the whole of (East Central) Europe. The interests of Corvinus were directed both to the east, where tried to stop the advance of the Ottomans, who had taken Constantinople in 1453, and to the west, where he sought to unite Bohemia and the hereditary lands of the Habsburgs with Hungary in a first "Danube Monarchy". In addition, the king promoted art and culture, attracted Italian humanists and native scholars to his court and collected Latin and Greek manuscripts. These political and diplomatic aspects of the rule of Corvinus are highlighted in the contributions in this book the same way as the religious and cultural ones; also analysed are the representations of the king and his time in the western and eastern sources as well as in the historiography of the 19th and 20th century. Because of this interdisciplinary view from east to west and vice versa, the volume is of interest both for medieval studies directed at Western Europe as well as at Eastern Europe.


Contents:

Oliver Jens SCHMITT, Matthias Corvinus und Skanderbeg oder die jahrzehntelange Allianz der Häuser Hunyadi und Kastriota im Krieg mit den Osmanen

Alexandru SIMON, La «parentèle ottomane » des Hunyadi

Julia DÜCKER, Von Konfrontation und Kooperation – Matthias Corvinus und die Reichstage der Jahre 1479 bis 1481

Güneş IŞIKEL, Friendship and the principle of good neighbourhood between Bayezid II and Matthias Corvinus

Johannes PREISER-KAPELLER, Sive vincitur Hungaria … Das Osmanische Reich, das Königreich Ungarn und ihre Nachbarn in der Zeit des Matthias Corvinus im Machtvergleich im Urteil griechischer Quellen

Vasile RUS, Giovanni Corvino di Hunyad ed il monastero di Peri

Flavius SOLOMON, Vom Abendland zum Morgenland. Orthodoxe und Katholiken in der Moldau im Mittelalter

Dan Ioan MURESAN, Bessarion et l’Église de rite Byzantin du royaume de Hongrie (1463–1472)

Ioan Aurel POP, Les Roumains de Transylvanie et leurs privilèges accordés à l’époque de Mathias Corvin

Zsuzsanna ÖTVÖS, Some Remarks on a Humanist Vocabularium

Gyula MAYER, Zur Textgeschichte der Elegien des Janus Pannonius

Gábor BOLONYAI, Taddeo Ugoleto’s Marginal Notes on his Brand-new Crastonus Dictionary

András NÉMETH, The Mynas codex and the Bibliotheca Corviniana

Christian GASTGEBER, Griechische Corvinen. Additamenta

Gianluca MASI, Nuovi manoscritti corviniani a Firenze. Ancora su Mattia Corvino e gli archivi Fiorentini

Ekaterini MITSIOU, John Hunyadi and Matthias Corvinus in the Byzantine sources. With an excursus on the “Greek poem on the battle of Varna”

Mihailo POPOVIĆ, Reminiszenzen an König Matthias Corvinus in den Reiseberichten des Salomon Schweigger und Reinhold Lubenau

Ariadni MOUTAFIDOU, John Hunyadi and Matthias Corvinus in Modern Greek historiography

Florian KÜHRER, Die Pforten der Christenheit. Der Fall Konstantinopels und der Kampf gegen die Osmanen in den rumänischen Geschichtslehrbüchern 1942–2006

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