A figure of crucial importance to scholarship on western and eastern Europe alike, King Coloman (1208–1241) here receives long-overdue scholarly treatment as a key figure of the thirteenth century. The Árpád prince ruled over a vast area in Central Europe which remained largely affiliated to the Western Church, territories that comprise modern-day Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, and Bosnia. This study draws on Hungarian and other research that is inaccessible outside the region and places Coloman at the crossroads of Latin Christendom, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Mongol Empire.
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One—Coloman as Child Ruler of Galicia
- Chapter 1—The Galician Context in 1205
- Chapter 2—The Agreement of Scepus
- Chapter 3—Coloman’s Coronation as King of Galicia
- Chapter 4—The Hungarian Elite and Coloman’s Court
- Chapter 5—Coloman’s Position in Halych, 1215–22: Campaigns and Opponents
- Chapter 6—Upholding the Galician Claim: Coloman’s Place in Hungary
- Part Two—Coloman, Duke of Whole Slavonia (1226–1241)
- Chapter 7—Coloman and Scepus, before 1226
- Chapter 8—Coloman as Duke of Whole Slavonia From 1226
- Chapter 9—Coloman’s Status, and the Inner Workings of the Duchy
- Chapter 10—Coloman’s Ecclesiastical and Secular Actitivities in Slavonia
- Chapter 11—Coloman’s Rule in Slavonia
- Chapter 12—Politics and Dynastic Affairs
- Chapter 13—Challenges in the Balkans
- Chapter 14—The Mongol Attack and Coloman’s Death
- Conclusion—Coloman in the Eyes of Posterity
- Bibliography
- Index
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