Medieval Buda in Context

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Buda: History, Sources, Historiography

1 The Budapest History Museum and the Rediscovery of Medieval Buda

2 The Fate of the Medieval Archives of Buda and Pest

Part 2: Buda before Buda

3 Buda before Buda: Óbuda and Pest as Early Centers

4 ‘A castle once stood, now a heap of stones…’ the Site and Remains of Óbuda in Medieval Chronicles, National Epics, and Modern Fringe Theories

5 A Royal Forest in the Medium Regni

Part 3: The Topography of Buda

6 Royal Residences in Buda in Hungarian and European Context

7 Buda-Pest 1300 – Buda-Pest 1400. Two Topographical Snapshots

8 The Monastic Topography of Medieval Buda

9 Sacred Sites in Medieval Buda

10 Merchants, Markets, and Shops in Late Medieval Buda, Pest and Óbuda

11 Commercial Contacts of Buda along the Danube and beyond

Part 4: Buda as a Power Center

12 The Government of Medieval Buda

13 Diets and Synods in Buda and Its Environs

14 Royal Summits in and around Medieval Buda

15 Buda, Medieval Capital of Hungary

Part 5: Court Culture of a ‘Capital’

16 Made for the King: Sigismund of Luxemburg’s Statues in Buda and Their Place in Art History

17 The Court of the King and Queen in Buda in the Jagiellonian Age

18 Buda as a Center of Renaissance and Humanism

Part 6: Buda beyond Buda

19 Buda: From a Royal Palace to an Assaulted Border Castle, 1490–1541

20 The Last Medieval King Leaves Buda

21 Buda and the Urban Development of East Central Europe

Appendices

Select Bibliography on the History of Medieval Buda

Index of Geographic Names

Index of Personal Names