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Anonymus and Master Roger book cover

1st Edition

Anonymus and Master Roger

Edited By Martyn Rady, János M. Bak, László Veszprémy Copyright 2010
324 Pages
by Central European University Press

Contains two very different narratives; both are for the first time presented in an updated Latin text with an annotated English translation. An anonymous notary of King Bela of Hungary wrote a Latin Gesta Hungarorum (ca. 1200/10), a literary composition about the mythical origins of the Hungarians and their conquest of the Carpathian Basin. Anonymus tried to (re)construct the events and... Read more
General Editors’ Preface, Abbreviations, List of Maps and Illustrations, Introduction, Gesta Hungarorum, The Deeds of the Hungarians, Introduction, Epistola in Miserabile Carmen super destructione regni Hungarie per Tartaros facta, Epistle to the Sorrowful Lament upon the Destruction of the kingdom of Hungary by the Tartars, Select Bibliography, Index of Names of Persons, Kindreds, and Peoples, Index of Geographical Names, Gazetteers of Geographical Names

Biography

Martyn Rady is Emeritus Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London.

János M. Bak, professor emeritus CEU (Budapest) and UBC (Vancouver) was editor in chief of Decreta Regni Mediaevalis Hungariae. The Laws of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary (DRMH) and member of the editorial board of Central European Medieval Texts.

László Veszprémy, DSc is medievalist, paleographer, visiting professor at CEU, Department of Medieval Studies, director of the Institute of Military History. Books: co-author of the series Mittelalterliche lateinische Handschriftenfragmente (1988-98); editor, among other books, of Simonis de Kéza, Gesta Hungarorum (1999 CEMT 1); and (with B. K. Király) A Millennium of Hungarian Military History (2002).

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