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The Man of Many Devices, who Wandered Full Many Ways--
More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguised professor Janos M. Bak's 70th birthday."
At the Gate of Christendom
Modern life in increasingly heterogeneous societies has directed attention to patterns of interaction, often using a framework of persecution and tolerance. This study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities (Jews, Muslims and pagan Turkic nomads) argues that different degrees of exclusion and integration characterized medieval non-Christian status in the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary between 1000 and 1300. A complex explanation of non-Christian status emerges from the analysis of their economic, social, legal and religious positions and roles. Existence on the frontier with the nomadic world led to the formulation of a frontier ideology, and to anxiety about Hungary's detachment from Christendom, which affected policies towards non-Christians. The study also succeeds in integrating central European history with the study of the medieval world, while challenging such current concepts in medieval studies as frontier societies, persecution and tolerance, ethnicity and 'the other'.
The Elefánthy
One of the first Hungarian historians to apply methods of the Annales school of French historiography, Fugedi (1916-92) here explores the life and customs of the medieval nobility, focusing on the Elefanthy kindred from what is now Slovakia. He compares the customary law for noble status, inheritance, and marriage as codified in 1415 and to documentary evidence, and finds that the legal literature differs in regard to social mobility and kindred solidarity. Translated from Az Elefanthyak: A kozepkori magyar nemes es klanja, published by Magveto, Budapest in 1992. No index. Distributed by CUP Services. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Making of Europe
This work illuminates four centuries of medieval history, from the expansion of Latin Christendom, from its base in France, Western Germany and North-Central Italy into the European outskirts, at a time of rising population, economic growth and dynamic cultural change.
Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe summarizes the political, social, and cultural history of medieval Central Europe (c. 800-1600 CE), a region long considered a "forgotten" area of the European past. The 25 cutting-edge chapters present up-to-date research about the region's core medieval kingdoms -- Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia -- and their dynamic interactions with neighboring areas. From the Baltic to the Adriatic, the handbook includes reflections on modern conceptions and uses of the region's shared medieval traditions. The volume's thematic organization reveals rarely compared knowledge about the region's medieval resources: its peoples and structures of power; its social life and economy; its religion and culture; and images of its past.
