Edited by Balázs Nagy, Martyn Rady, Katalin Szende and András Vadas
Medieval Buda in Context discusses 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. The twenty-one articles
written by Hungarian and international
scholars draw on a variety of primary sources:
texts, both legal and literary; archaeological
discoveries; architectural history; art history;
and other studies of material culture. The
essays also place Buda in the political, social,
cultural and economic context of other
contemporary central and eastern European
cities. By bringing together the results of
research undertaken in recent decades for an
English-language readership, this volume
offers new insights into urban history and the
culture of Europe as a whole.
MEDIEVAL BUDA IN CONTEXT
June 2016
ISBN: 9789004307681
Hardback (approx. 544 pp.)
List price: €204.- / $245.-
Brill's Companions to European History, Vol. 10
Balázs Nagy is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the Eöt-
vös Loránd University, Budapest, and visiting faculty at the
Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European Univer-
sity, Budapest. His main research interests are medieval economic
and urban history.
Martyn Rady is Masaryk Professor of Central European History at
the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University Coll-
ege London. He was for ten years part of the team that edited and
translated the corpus of the laws of medieval Hungary together
with János M. Bak.
Katalin Szende is Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at the
Central European University, Budapest. Her research concentrates
on medieval towns in the Carpathian Basin and Central Europe,
with particular regard to society, demography, literacy, everyday
life, and topography.
András Vadas is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research interests are
environmental and economic history of the Middle Ages and the
Early Modern period.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Contributors
János M. Bak
Zoltán Bencze
Judit Benda
István Draskóczy
Antonín Kalous
István Kenyeres
Gábor Klaniczay
András Kubinyi
József Laszlovszky
Károly Magyar
Balázs Nagy
Szilárd Papp
James Plumtree
Martyn Rady
Valery Rees
Orsolya Réthelyi
Beatrix F. Romhányi
Enikő Spekner
Péter Szabó
Katalin Szende
András Vadas
András Végh
László Veszprémy
Part 1: Buda: History, Sources,
Historiography
1 The Budapest History Museum and the
Rediscovery of Medieval Buda
Zoltán Bencze
2 The Fate of the Medieval Archives of Buda
and Pest
István Kenyeres
Part 2: Buda before Buda
3 Buda before Buda: Óbuda and Pest as Early
Centers
Enikő Spekner
4 ‘A castle once stood, now a heap of
stones…’ the Site and Remains of Óbuda in
Medieval Chronicles, National Epics, and Mo-
dern Fringe Theories
József Laszlovszky and James Plumtree
5 A Royal Forest in the Medium Regni
Péter Szabó
Part 3: The Topography of Buda
6 Royal Residences in Buda in Hungarian and
European Context
Károly Magyar
7 Buda-Pest 1300 – Buda-Pest 1400. Two
Topographical Snapshots
András Végh
8 The Monastic Topography of Medieval Buda
Beatrix F. Romhányi
9 Sacred Sites in Medieval Buda
Gábor Klaniczay
10 Merchants, Markets, and Shops in Late
Medieval Buda, Pest and Óbuda
Judit Benda
11 Commercial Contacts of Buda along the
Danube and beyond
István Draskóczy
Part 4: Buda as a Power Center
12 The Government of Medieval Buda
Martyn Rady
13 Diets and Synods in Buda and Its Environs
János M. Bak and András Vadas
14 Royal Summits in and around Medieval Bu-
da
Balázs Nagy
15 Buda, Medieval Capital of Hungary
András Kubinyi
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
Szilárd Papp
17 The Court of the King and Queen in Buda in
the Jagiellonian Age
Orsolya Réthelyi
18 Buda as a Center of Renaissance and
Humanism
Valery Rees
Part 6: Buda beyond Buda
19 Buda: From a Royal Palace to an Assaulted
Border Castle, 1490–1541
László Veszprémy
20 The Last Medieval King Leaves Buda
Antonín Kalous
21 Buda and the Urban Development of East
Central Europe
Katalin Szende
TABLE OF CONTENTS