Gesta Hungarorum The deeds of the Hungarians
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Bibliographic Information
Gesta Hungarorum = The deeds of the Hungarians
（Central European medieval texts）
Central European University Press, c1999
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Gesta Hungarorum
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Note
Bibliography: p. [187]-216
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written between 1282-1285, the "Gesta Hungarorum" is a historical fiction of prehistory, medieval history and contemporary social history. The author divides Hungarian history into two periods: Hunnish-Hungarian prehistory and Hungarian history, giving a division which persisted in Hungary up to the beginnings of modern historiography. The text also illustrates the chronicler's legal-theoretical framework of corporate self government and constitutional law, inspired by French and Italian sources and practice, which made this chronicle become an integral part of Hungarian political theory as well as historical consciousness.
Table of Contents
General Editors' Preface
Abbreviations
List of Maps, Figures and Tables
Introduction
Theoretical Elements in Master Simon of Keza's Gesta Hungarorum (1282-1285)
The background: The emergence of a European Structural Unity
A New Historical Frame of Reference: The Nation
Simon's Social Theory: The Origins of Human Inequality
The New Centre of Political Thought: The Communitas
Two Authors, Two Histories within One Europe
Simonis de Keza [Gesta Hungarorum]
Explicit Prologus
Incipiunt Hunnorum Gesta
Explicit Liber Promus de Introitu
Incipit Secundus Liber de Reditu
De Unwornicis
Simon of Keza [The Deeds of the Hungarians]
End of the Prologue
Beginning of the Deeds of the Huns
End of the first book, about the Entry
Beginning of the Second Book, about the Return
The Nobles of Foreign Origin
The Udvarnok
Bibliography
Gazetteer of Geographical Names
Index of Proper Names
Index of Geographical Names
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