1st Edition
The Illuminated Chronicle Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians from the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Codex
480 Pages
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Central European University Press
The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. Its text, presented here in a new edition and translation, is the most complete record of Hungary's medieval historical tradition, going back to the eleventh century and including the mythical past of its people. The pictures in this manuscript—formerly known as the... Read more
General Editors' Preface,The Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians in European Context Norbert KerskenAbbreviations, Abbreviations and signs in text and annotations, Titles cited in abbreviation, List of illustrations and tables, Annotated list of miniatures and medallions, Editors' Preface, Chronica de gestis Hungarorum, Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians, Appendix, Select Bibliography, Index of Names of Persons, Kindreds and Peoples Index of Geographical Names, Gazetteer for Geographical Names.
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).
