More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguished professor János Bak's 70th birthday. Notable contributors from many countries dedicate previously unpublished essays and articles in this celebratory Festschrift.Reflecting the intellectual calibre of János Bak, scholars not only of medieval history, but also from the fields of modern history, philosophy, linguistics, art history and political science provide a broad range of perspectives on a wide range of disciplinary areas thus allowing a wide readership audience.
- Cover
- Front matter
- Title page
- Copyright page
- TABULA GRATULATORIA
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- I. PERSONALIA
- Baksi
- Finding (and losing?) the right path together (1945-48)
- "Dorange": A story of solidarity
- The Imre Nagy Institute in Brussels. A letter of sorts to János Bak
- Bak-as I see him
- II. ARTES
- Kunsthistorische Bemerkungen zur Vision des heiligen Gerhard/Gellért
- Byzantium and the West: Music as a cultural betrayer
- The Holy Father and the evils, or could the Hungarian Angevin legendary have been ordered for a pope?
- "Young, Rich and Beautiful." The visualization of male beauty in the late Middle Ages
- III. REBELLIONES
- Violence and the queen's body: Medieval consorts, statecraft, and disorder in twelfth-century France
- Violence and the social order in a medieval society: The evidence from the Henryków region, ca. 1150-ca. 1300
- Le Juif au tribunal: Cracovie, XVeme siecle
- Images and designations for rebellious peasants in late medieval Hungary
- Utopia and Reformation in Central Europe
- IV. MAJESTAS
- Die Geburt Jesu, der Kaiser Augustus und die Sibylle von Tivoli
- The adventus of Constantius II to Rome 357 A. D.
- A glimpse of openness in medieval society: AI-I:Iakam II of Córdoba and his non-Muslim collaborators
- Exeat Aula? Rulership in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan
- The livres bleu and rouge. Two coronation manuscripts in the cathedral of Reims
- Female control of dynastic politics in sixteenth-century Poland
- V. HAGIOGRAPHICA
- Mankind's common intellectual substance: A study in the letters of Saint Antony and his Life by Saint Athanasius
- Constantine-Cyril, apostle of the Slavs, as "Bibliothecary," or how Byzantine was the author of Constantine' s Vita?
- St. Stephen of Perm: Missionary and popular saint
- Die Ungarnmission des hl. Adalberts
- Was the cult of Saint Bartholomew a royal option in early medievalCroatia?
- "Spekyn for Goddys Cawse": Margery Kempe and the seven spiritualworks of mercy
- VI. QUOTIDIANA
- Feast, games, and inversions: Reflections on The Ups and Downs of St. Gall
- A medieval parade?
- Signs of power and signs of hospitality: The festive entries of the Ordensmeister into late medieval Reval
- Beer in Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages
- Kerbhölzer in Alteuropa - Zwischen Dorfschmiede und Schatzamt
- Housing in eighteenth-century Hungarian cities
- VII. VARIA MEDIEVALIA
- A gift awaits an answer. A page from the cultural history of society
- Carolingian elopements as a sidelight on counts and vassals
- Transcontinental trade from East-Central Europe to western Europe (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries)
- Enemy, obstacle, ally? The Greek in western crusade proposals (1274-1311
- Eternal allegiances. Duns Scotus' place in the debate about the possibility of an eternally created world
- The vernacular languages of East Central Europe in the medieval period
- A preface, mainly textual, to Alcuin's De Ratione Animae
- VIII. HUNGARICA
- Erbteilung und Familienbildung
- The filia! quarter and female inheritance in medieval Hungarian law
- Field systems in medieval Hungary
- Was there a bourgeoisie in medieval Hungary?
- Die ungarische Politik Konrads II.
- Dux et praeceptor Hierosoliminatorum. König Ladislaus (László) als imaginarer Kreuzritter
- Die Domkapitel und ihre Domherren bis Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts in Ungarn
- Summa Potestas Post Deum-Papal Dilectio and Hungarian Devotio in the reign of Innocent III
- The mantle of Béla IV
- Hungarians in an anonymous Byzantine geographical treatise
- The Knights of St. John and the Hungarian private legal literacy up to the mid-fourteenth century
- Defining the position of Croatia during the restoration of royal power (1345-1361}
- The fading glory of a former royal seat: The case of medieval Temesvár
- A history of the Cyko family of Pomáz
- Un ambassadeur bien choisi: Bernardinus de Frangipanus et sa mission a Naples, en 1476
- Werbőczy als Politiker vor Mohács (1526)
- Sebastian Thököly and his sensibility towards religious questions
- La bibliotheque de Gergely Berzeviczy
- The "battle" of Nagykovácsi. A persona! memoir reconfirmed by the enemy
- IX. HISTORIOGRAPHICA
- Myths chasing myths: The legend of the Trojan origin of theFrench and its dismantling
- Geschichtsschreibung im Dienste von Herrschaftsinteressen am Beispiel Frankreichs im Spatmittelalter
- The reign of Henry IV of England, 1399-1413. A century of historical research and writing
- The historiography of the so-called "east colonisation" and the current state of research
- The German Settlers on the Southern Coast of the Baltic Sea
- The survival of medieval traditions at early American colleges to ca. 1800
- Das Beispiel Ungarn im standischen Osteuropa
- C. A. Macartney's studies on early Hungarian history
- Englishness between class and ethnicity
- Bibliography of the works of János M. Bak
- List of contributors
- Back cover
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