1st Edition
Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle
220 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
Abbreviations, List of Illustrations, Preface, The Codex of the Illuminated Chronicle, The Text of the Chronicle of the deeds of the Hungarians, >The Illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle, The Heraldry of Angevin-age Hungary and its Reflections in the Illuminated Chronicle, Attila and the Hun Tradition in Hungarian Medieval Texts, The Dynastic Conflicts of the Eleventh Century in the Illuminated Chronicle, The Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St. Ladislas and the Illuminated Chronicle), The Afterlife of the Fourteenth-Century Chronicle Compositions, Credits, Index nominum
Biography
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).
