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

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