Medieval Buda in Context.
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- 9789004307674
- 943.912
- DB984 .M44 2016
Intro -- Medieval Buda in Context -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Buda: History, Sources, Historiography -- 1 The Budapest History Museum and the Rediscovery of Medieval Buda -- 2 The Fate of the Medieval Archives of Buda and Pest -- Part 2: Buda before Buda -- 3 Buda before Buda: Óbuda and Pest as Early Centers -- 4 'A castle once stood, now a heap of stones…' the Site and Remains of Óbuda in Medieval Chronicles, National Epics, and Modern Fringe Theories -- 5 A Royal Forest in the Medium Regni -- Part 3: The Topography of Buda -- 6 Royal Residences in Buda in Hungarian and European Context -- 7 Buda-Pest 1300 - Buda-Pest 1400. Two Topographical Snapshots -- 8 The Monastic Topography of Medieval Buda -- 9 Sacred Sites in Medieval Buda -- 10 Merchants, Markets, and Shops in Late Medieval Buda, Pest and Óbuda -- 11 Commercial Contacts of Buda along the Danube and beyond -- Part 4: Buda as a Power Center -- 12 The Government of Medieval Buda -- 13 Diets and Synods in Buda and Its Environs -- 14 Royal Summits in and around Medieval Buda -- 15 Buda, Medieval Capital of Hungary -- Part 5: Court Culture of a 'Capital' -- 16 Made for the King: Sigismund of Luxemburg's Statues in Buda and Their Place in Art History -- 17 The Court of the King and Queen in Buda in the Jagiellonian Age -- 18 Buda as a Center of Renaissance and Humanism -- Part 6: Buda beyond Buda -- 19 Buda: From a Royal Palace to an Assaulted Border Castle, 1490-1541 -- 20 The Last Medieval King Leaves Buda -- 21 Buda and the Urban Development of East Central Europe -- Appendices -- Select Bibliography on the History of Medieval Buda -- Index of Geographic Names -- Index of Personal Names.
The twenty-one articles of this volume discuss the character and development of Buda and its surroundings between the thirteenth and the sixteenth centuries, particularly its role as a royal center and capital city of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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