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Anonymus and Master Roger: Gesta Hungarorum: Anonymi Bele Regis Notarii / the Deeds of the Hungarians: Anonymus, Notary of King Bela (Central European Medieval Texts) Hardcover - 2010

by Rady, Martyn


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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.

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  • Title Anonymus and Master Roger: Gesta Hungarorum: Anonymi Bele Regis Notarii / the Deeds of the Hungarians: Anonymus, Notary of King Bela (Central European Medieval Texts)
  • Author Rady, Martyn
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Bilingual
  • Pages 268
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Central European Univ Pr
  • Date 2010-10
  • Features Bilingual, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789639776951
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2010, Page 40

About the author

Martyn Rady is Emeritus Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London. Jnos 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. Lszl Veszprmy, 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 Kza, Gesta Hungarorum (1999 CEMT 1); and (with B. K. Kirly) A Millennium of Hungarian Military History (2002).
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