Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle

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ISBN 978-963-386-261-2
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$69.00 / €56.00 / £50.00
Subsidium to CEMT vol. IX on the Illuminated Chronicle
220 pages, 55 illustrations

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 detailed scholarly introduction, unlike other CEMT items, so it is here printed separately.

The first essays analyze the text and the illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle (formerly called the Vienna Chronicle) from literary-historical, art historical and heraldic perspectives. They also summarize the literature on the chronicle for the past two hundred years. Additional studies address the narrative. Since the chronicle starts with the history of the Huns, the imaginary ancestors of the Hungarians, one essay addresses the Attila tradition in Hungarian historiography. Others devote attention to the dynastic struggles of the eleventh century, placing them in the context of amicitia and deditio, and to the image of St. Ladislas I as the “ideal king”. The final essays examine the fate of the fourteenth-century chronicle texts over the subsequent centuries, their appearance in legal texts, and their reception abroad.

Preface

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List of Illustrations

Orsolya Karsay: The Codex of the Illuminated Chronicle
János M. Bak and Ryszard Grzesik: The Text of the Chronicle of the deeds of the Hungarians
Ernő Marosi: The Illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle
György Rácz: The Heraldry of Angevin-age Hungary and its Reflections in the Illuminated Chronicle
Martyn Rady: Attila and the Hun Tradition in Hungarian Medieval Texts
Dániel Bagi: The dynastic conflicts of the eleventh century in the Illuminated Chronicle
Kornél Szovák: The Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St Ladislas and the Illuminated Chronicle)
Balázs Kertész: The Afterlife of the Fourteenth-Century Chronicle Compositions

"Orsolya Karsay realiza una descripción codicológica del manuscrito; János M. Bak y Ryszard Grzesik se ocupan del autor y la confección de la obra; Ernő Marosi lleva a cabo un análisis detallado de las miniaturas técnica e iconográfi camente en relación con la narración de los hechos; György Rácz estudia el uso de la heráldica como elemento de consolidación y difusión de la dinastía angevina; Martyn Rady traza una semblanza de Atila, del que se considera el ancestro heroico de los monarcas húngaros, a partir de los diferentes testimonios cronísticos; Dániel Bagi demuestra que los episodios que narran los confl ictos dinásticos de los Árpad en el siglo XI, fueron elaborados por intelectuales (clérigos) pertenecientes a la corte del rey Colomán; Kornél Szovak lleva a cabo un análisis comparado de la Legenda sancti Ladisali regis —en sus dos versiones— con el relato recogido en la Chronica gestis Hungarorum, pues ofrece una imagen ideal del monarca, lo que le permite contrastarla... more