Anonymus and Master Roger: Gesta Hungarorum/The Deeds of the Hungarian; Epistola in Miserabile Carmen Super Destructione Regni Hungarie Per Tarta by Veszpremi, Laszlo

Anonymus and Master Roger (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789639776951)

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Anonymus and Master Roger: Gesta Hungarorum/The Deeds of the Hungarian; Epistola in Miserabile Carmen Super Destructione Regni Hungarie Per Tarta by Veszpremi, Laszlo

Anonymus and Master Roger

$90.00
Anonymus and Master Roger: Gesta Hungarorum/The Deeds of the Hungarian; Epistola in Miserabile Carmen Super Destructione Regni Hungarie Per Tarta by Veszpremi, Laszlo

Anonymus and Master Roger

$90.00
Format: Hardcover
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Contains two very different narratives; both are for the first time presented in an updated Latin text with an annotated English translation.An anonymous notary of King Bela of Hungary wrote a Latin Gesta Hungarorum (ca. 1200/10), a literary composition about the mythical origins of the Hungarians and their conquest of the Carpathian Basin. Anonymus tried to (re)construct the events and protagonists--including ethnic groups--of several centuries before from the names of places, rivers, and mountains of his time, assuming that these retained the memory of times past. One of his major "inventions" was the inclusion of Attila the Hun into the Hungarian royal genealogy, a feature later developed into the myth of Hun-Hungarian continuity.The Epistle to the Sorrowful Lament upon the Destruction of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Tartars of Master Roger includes an eyewitness account of the Mongol invasion in 1241-2, beginning with an analysis of the political conditions under King Bela IV and ending with the king's return to the devastated country.

Author: Martyn Rady
ISBN-10: 9639776955
ISBN-13: 9789639776951
Publisher: Central European University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2010
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 40
By Martyn Rady
By Martyn Rady
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Martyn Rady is Emeritus Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London. János M. Bak, professor emeritus CEU (Budapest) and UBC (Vancouver) was editor in chief of Decreta Regni Mediaevalis Hungariae. The Laws of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary (DRMH), and member of the editorial board of Central European Medieval Texts. László Veszprémy, DSc is medievalist, paleographer, visiting professor at CEU, Department of Medieval Studies, director of the Institute of Military History. Books: co-author of the series Mittelalterliche lateinische Handschriftenfragmente (1988-98); editor, among other books, of Simonis de Kéza, Gesta Hungarorum (1999 CEMT 1); and (with B. K. Király) A Millennium of Hungarian Military History (2002).

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