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Révay Péter by Gergely Tóth

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In: Bene, Sándor (szerk.): Magyar sztoikusok : Tanulmányok az újsztoicizmus magyarországi történe... more In: Bene, Sándor (szerk.): Magyar sztoikusok : Tanulmányok az újsztoicizmus magyarországi történetéről. Budapest, Gondolat Kiadó, 2024) pp. 259-269.

In the 16th century, writers concerned with the functioning of the state and its laws considered history to be the main object of study of the state, as well as its wellhead, its ’raw material’, and, to a large extent, they tried to establish general rules concerning the state and especially the power of princes on the basis of the study of historical texts. This conviction is clearly evident in the works of Machiavelli, Guevara, Guicciardini, Bodin, Botero, Daneau, Lipsius. Péter Révay (1568-1622), the scholarly Hungarian crown custodian, knew most of these writers well and embraced their approach and methods. In his Histories of the Crown and of the Kingdom (Commentarius, De monarchia), the Lutheran magnate not only behaves as a ’historian’, but also constantly interprets his subject according to the taste of the time. This was manifested in the fact that he often inserted a general axiom, an aphorism, in connection with a historical event, which applied to the functioning of states, or contained an ’exhortation’ addressed to certain political actors (princes, courtiers, etc.). Yet it cannot be said that under Révay’s hand Hungarian history is transformed into a simple parable. The events of the past are assembled into a linear history, and do not lose their context when they are ’transformed’ into exemplars – rather, Révay merely amplifies the lessons that can be drawn from them, and incorporates them into one of the narratives that he operates throughout his work (princely power, the rights of the orders, the Turkish question, etc.). The subject of my paper, then, is Révay’s historical exemplars and aphorisms, which are interwoven throughout his historical work. I would like to examine, on the one hand, who among the abovementioned writers on the theory of the state, and in what way, influenced the Hungarian author. On the other hand, I would also like to examine the ’function’ and structure of Révay’s aphorisms, and how the message of these pithy aphorisms was influenced by the author’s religious and public status and offices, his denominational affiliation, and his resulting political views.

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This study examines how the princely court as a concept and the Habsburg dynasty as an actual pow... more This study examines how the princely court as a concept and the Habsburg dynasty as an actual power appears in the history of Hungary entitled De monarchia et sacra corona Regni Hungariae centuriae septem, written by the Lutheran lord and royal councilor, Péter Révay (1568–1622), and it also examines how he depicts the royal coronations held in Pozsony (today’s Bratislava). In his work, the author repeatedly referred to the problem of the court as a center of power, which was embodied in the exhortations addressed to the prince's counselors and to the prince himself. In this respect he was strongly influenced by the political literature of the time (mainly the works of Guevara and Lipsius, and to a lesser extent Bodin). Révay's relationship to actual princely power, that is, to the Habsburgs, is characterized by loyalty, but he made it a condition that the privileges of the secular elite be respected, namely, under the laws of 1608. The author considered Pozsony, and not Vienna, to be the capital of the country, and wrote in particular detail about the coronations of Anna of Tyrol and Ferdinand II (1613, 1618), which took place there. During these occasions, the old Hungarian royal court briefly came to life, as the members of the Hungarian elite actively revived their court positions (master of the table, etc.), and Révay was the chief organizer of the two ceremonies as a Royal Courtmaster. Presumably this is why it was important for him to capture these coronations, and because in this way he was able to emphasize the old glory and independence of the Kingdom of Hungary.

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The Monarchia, the work of Péter Révay crown guard (1568–1622) has received little attention from... more The Monarchia, the work of Péter Révay crown guard (1568–1622) has received little attention from the researchers so far, who studied more Révay’s smaller work, the Commentarius (1613) instead. The Monarchia, however, is approximately eight times longer, and was written later than the Commentarius (it was made some time between 1619–1622, but it was printed only in 1659); furthermore, in comparison with the Commentarius it is more than a political essay: it is a veritable country history.
What is primarily apparent in Révay’s work is the radical change in the political situation in Hungary in 1618–1619. In 1618, an intransigent Catholic monarch, Ferdinand II took the throne of Hungary – with the effective help of the pope and cardinal Péter Pázmány – which seriously concerned the protestant orders in Hungary, as they were afraid that the agreement between the estates and the Habsburgs in 1608 could be compromised. This concern is manifested in the work: the author asserts the rights of the orders very frequently, discusses in detail the agreement of 1608, firmly condemns the political engagement of the clergy and the pope, and generally expresses a strong Lutheran historical approach. In addition, Révay, following the neostoicism of Lipsius and the popular king mirrors (Guevara), warns the current monarch (but obviously alluding to Ferdinand II) through historical examples and axiome-like sentences not to go beyond his limits and not to become a tyrant.
Finally, in the Monarchia plenty of new data can be found about the Hungarian Holy Crown and the coronations; and it can also be observed that Révay developed further his concepts about the Holy Crown in this work. He elaborated the theory that the Greek letters and the pictures of Greek emperors on the crown prove its Byzantine origins. The additional motive of this theory for Révay was evidently to weaken the Catholic character of the cult around the crown (including that of King St. Stephen), with the purpose of thus making the crown - and also the first Hungarian monarch (who was alleged to have been given the Holy Crown from the Pope) - more acceptable for the Protestants. This theory later caused serious controversy between Catholic and Protestant scholars in the 18th century.

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Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények 123(2019) 5. 567-584.

in: Háborúk, alkotások, életutak. Tanulmányok a 17. század közepének európai történelméről, szerk... more in: Háborúk, alkotások, életutak. Tanulmányok a 17. század közepének európai történelméről, szerk. NAGY Gábor és VISKOLCZ Noémi, Miskolci Történelmi Tanulmányok (Miskolc, Miskolci Egyetemi Kiadó, 2019), 150–171.

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In: Politikai nyelvek a 17. század első felének Magyarországán. [Political languages in Hungary i... more In: Politikai nyelvek a 17. század első felének Magyarországán. [Political languages in Hungary in the first half of the 17th century.] Szerkesztette Kármán Gábor-Zászkaliczky Márton. Budapest, reciti, 2019. 119-154.

Bél Mátyás by Gergely Tóth

The life and ouvre of Mátyás Bél/Matej Bel/Matthias Bel.

The eighth volume in our text-edition series contains five sections of the Notitia, the extensive... more The eighth volume in our text-edition series contains five sections of the Notitia, the extensive country description by Mátyás Bél (1684–1749), that have survived in manuscript form: the descriptions of Temes, Csanád, Arad, Zaránd, and Békés counties. These texts have been unpublished to date. Although the descriptions of Békés and Csanád counties were earlier translated into Hungarian, the translators did not use the manuscript that preserves the most complete version of the text as the basis for their work. For researchers, these two county descriptions are thus worth revisiting.

In: Lymbus - Magyarságtudományi Forrásközlemények 2023. 215-259.

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In: Földügyi és hagyatéki szabályozás: Társadalmi gyakorlat Magyarországon a 16–20. században. Sz... more In: Földügyi és hagyatéki szabályozás: Társadalmi gyakorlat Magyarországon a 16–20. században. Szerk. Kis József, Kovács Eleonóra, Ö. Kovács József, Németh István. Magyar Kormánytisztviselői Kar – Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár, Budapest, 2023. 109-120.

In: A latin nyelv a kora újkori Magyarország és Erdély kultúrájában és művelődésében. Szerk.: Bék... more In: A latin nyelv a kora újkori Magyarország és Erdély kultúrájában és művelődésében. Szerk.: Békés Enikő – Kasza Péter – Molnár Dávid. Szeged, 2023. (Convivia Neolatina 5.) 47-62.

In my study, I examined the views of Mátyás Bél (Matthias Bel, 1684–1749), a prominent Hungarian pedagogue, geographer and historian, on the teaching of Latin. In the schools he led (Banská Bystrica, Bratislava), Bél wanted to implement the pedagogical guidelines of August Hermann Francke, the great Pietist school organizer and church reformer, and his beloved professor, in the teaching of Latin, for example, teaching in the mother tongue, and simplifying the material of grammar and rhetoric. He also wanted to introduce the textbooks of Christoph Cellarius, another of his professors, namely the Latin-German dictionary Liber memorialis and the Latin grammar in German, which served Francke's objectives but also represented a particular direction with their purist viewpoint. Consequently, Bél firmly rejected the old-fashioned and pretentious Donatus grammars and the textbooks of Comenius, which he considered to have been filled with "barbaric" neologisms. Bél also intended Castellio's Dialogi sacri to be a practice reading for the lower classes, in which he also followed Francke.
Bél's ideas on mother tongue education were challenged by the multi-ethnic (German-Slovak-Hungarian, sometimes „Vend” or Hungarian Slovene) student population in his schools. He therefore expanded Cellarius's dictionary into a quadrilingual one (Latin-German-Hungarian-"Czech", the latter for Slovaks), which proved to be a successful initiative. However, his German professor's Latin grammar in German was published only with a Latin translation by him, and this failed because of the disapproval of Hungarian school inspectors and administrators, who preferred to stick to the familiar old textbooks. Bél started translating the Cellarius grammar into Slovak and Hungarian, but did not finish them.
Bél was already well aware of the obsolescence of the humanist school programme, which focused on Latin language and placed great emphasis on rhetorical and poetic studies, and he experienced the dissatisfaction of the students with it. That is why he has already tried to emphasise the usefulness of learning Latin and to point out the areas where pure Latinism is important. He could not, however, change the fundamental nature of schooling, namely the dominance of Greek and Latin studies, but he was already striving to teach the realia (especially geography and history).

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Matthias Bel (1684–1749), Hungarian historian and geographer was as renowed that he could see his... more Matthias Bel (1684–1749), Hungarian historian and geographer was as renowed that he could see his own long biography in his life, which was published in 1746 by Johann Jakob Brucker and Johann Jakob Haid in two languages, and two separate series, but of identical content in the fifth volume of their "Pinacotheca scriptorum nostra aetate litteris illustrium" in Latin, and "Bilder-sal heutiges tages lebender, und durch Gelahrtheit berühmter Schrifftsteller" in German. With arguments based on both style and content, the present paper at first demonstrates that the text in question is in fact an autobiography. Next, it examines the roles in which Bel chose to present himself, in other words, the self-representation he used in the text. The major roles are the following: 1. the unfortunate student and reformer teacher; 2. the prosecuted pietist pastor; 3. the patriotric intellectual. Finally, the paper explores the extent to which the career of Bel was typical or idiosyncratic if placed in the context of the living conditions of the contemporary Protestant “Hungarus” intellectual elite. The concusion is that while his school years, university studies and early career presents several common features with the curricula of other contemporary Hungarian men of letters, Bel’s immense scientific production and its very high level was far from ordinary, and was not exclusively rooted in this “Hungarus” scientific world. Consequently, it may be misleading to regard Bel as a typical “Hungarus” intellectual.
Emphasising the necessity for a new, modern biography of Bel, the paper also outlines its plan as conceived by the author.

In the seventh volume of our textual edition series, we are publishing four texts from among the ... more In the seventh volume of our textual edition series, we are publishing four texts from among the unpublished manuscripts of the Notitia, the large-scale country survey by Mátyás Bél (1684–1749): the descriptions of Heves, Csongrád, and Bács-Bodrog counties, along with the description of the districts of Jász and Kun. Since — with the exception of Bács-Bodrog — these former counties and districts were located entirely within the borders of post-Trianon Hungary, it is no surprise that all the descriptions were translated into Hungarian. However, the original Latin text of only one of them, the description of Heves county, has been published — and unfortunately even this edition is somewhat problematic, since an inappropriate manuscript was used for publication.

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The greatest initiative of Bél Mátyás (1684-1749), the exquisite historian and geograp... more The greatest initiative of Bél Mátyás (1684-1749), the exquisite historian and geographer, was the encyclopedic overview of Hungary’s history and geography. However the county based descriptions are not only, as the title suggests “historical and geographical” (Notitia Hungariae novae historico-geographica), but also include educational- and literary history, folkloric approaches as well as thourough researches in the history of the church, genealogical studies, even treating archives and coat of arms descriptions. Bél differs from his contemporaries by de facto accomplishing his gigantic targets, although on some points incomplete due to reasons beyond his power. The printed volumes of his work prove his diligence and unique talent, his exquisite style and above all his universal perspective. The published volumes also show us that Bél managed to maintian a unified, clear structure, a solid order of topics in all the county descriptions despite the thematical abundance.

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In: Bene, Sándor (szerk.): Magyar sztoikusok : Tanulmányok az újsztoicizmus magyarországi történe... more In: Bene, Sándor (szerk.): Magyar sztoikusok : Tanulmányok az újsztoicizmus magyarországi történetéről. Budapest, Gondolat Kiadó, 2024) pp. 259-269.

In the 16th century, writers concerned with the functioning of the state and its laws considered history to be the main object of study of the state, as well as its wellhead, its ’raw material’, and, to a large extent, they tried to establish general rules concerning the state and especially the power of princes on the basis of the study of historical texts. This conviction is clearly evident in the works of Machiavelli, Guevara, Guicciardini, Bodin, Botero, Daneau, Lipsius. Péter Révay (1568-1622), the scholarly Hungarian crown custodian, knew most of these writers well and embraced their approach and methods. In his Histories of the Crown and of the Kingdom (Commentarius, De monarchia), the Lutheran magnate not only behaves as a ’historian’, but also constantly interprets his subject according to the taste of the time. This was manifested in the fact that he often inserted a general axiom, an aphorism, in connection with a historical event, which applied to the functioning of states, or contained an ’exhortation’ addressed to certain political actors (princes, courtiers, etc.). Yet it cannot be said that under Révay’s hand Hungarian history is transformed into a simple parable. The events of the past are assembled into a linear history, and do not lose their context when they are ’transformed’ into exemplars – rather, Révay merely amplifies the lessons that can be drawn from them, and incorporates them into one of the narratives that he operates throughout his work (princely power, the rights of the orders, the Turkish question, etc.). The subject of my paper, then, is Révay’s historical exemplars and aphorisms, which are interwoven throughout his historical work. I would like to examine, on the one hand, who among the abovementioned writers on the theory of the state, and in what way, influenced the Hungarian author. On the other hand, I would also like to examine the ’function’ and structure of Révay’s aphorisms, and how the message of these pithy aphorisms was influenced by the author’s religious and public status and offices, his denominational affiliation, and his resulting political views.

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This study examines how the princely court as a concept and the Habsburg dynasty as an actual pow... more This study examines how the princely court as a concept and the Habsburg dynasty as an actual power appears in the history of Hungary entitled De monarchia et sacra corona Regni Hungariae centuriae septem, written by the Lutheran lord and royal councilor, Péter Révay (1568–1622), and it also examines how he depicts the royal coronations held in Pozsony (today’s Bratislava). In his work, the author repeatedly referred to the problem of the court as a center of power, which was embodied in the exhortations addressed to the prince's counselors and to the prince himself. In this respect he was strongly influenced by the political literature of the time (mainly the works of Guevara and Lipsius, and to a lesser extent Bodin). Révay's relationship to actual princely power, that is, to the Habsburgs, is characterized by loyalty, but he made it a condition that the privileges of the secular elite be respected, namely, under the laws of 1608. The author considered Pozsony, and not Vienna, to be the capital of the country, and wrote in particular detail about the coronations of Anna of Tyrol and Ferdinand II (1613, 1618), which took place there. During these occasions, the old Hungarian royal court briefly came to life, as the members of the Hungarian elite actively revived their court positions (master of the table, etc.), and Révay was the chief organizer of the two ceremonies as a Royal Courtmaster. Presumably this is why it was important for him to capture these coronations, and because in this way he was able to emphasize the old glory and independence of the Kingdom of Hungary.

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The Monarchia, the work of Péter Révay crown guard (1568–1622) has received little attention from... more The Monarchia, the work of Péter Révay crown guard (1568–1622) has received little attention from the researchers so far, who studied more Révay’s smaller work, the Commentarius (1613) instead. The Monarchia, however, is approximately eight times longer, and was written later than the Commentarius (it was made some time between 1619–1622, but it was printed only in 1659); furthermore, in comparison with the Commentarius it is more than a political essay: it is a veritable country history.
What is primarily apparent in Révay’s work is the radical change in the political situation in Hungary in 1618–1619. In 1618, an intransigent Catholic monarch, Ferdinand II took the throne of Hungary – with the effective help of the pope and cardinal Péter Pázmány – which seriously concerned the protestant orders in Hungary, as they were afraid that the agreement between the estates and the Habsburgs in 1608 could be compromised. This concern is manifested in the work: the author asserts the rights of the orders very frequently, discusses in detail the agreement of 1608, firmly condemns the political engagement of the clergy and the pope, and generally expresses a strong Lutheran historical approach. In addition, Révay, following the neostoicism of Lipsius and the popular king mirrors (Guevara), warns the current monarch (but obviously alluding to Ferdinand II) through historical examples and axiome-like sentences not to go beyond his limits and not to become a tyrant.
Finally, in the Monarchia plenty of new data can be found about the Hungarian Holy Crown and the coronations; and it can also be observed that Révay developed further his concepts about the Holy Crown in this work. He elaborated the theory that the Greek letters and the pictures of Greek emperors on the crown prove its Byzantine origins. The additional motive of this theory for Révay was evidently to weaken the Catholic character of the cult around the crown (including that of King St. Stephen), with the purpose of thus making the crown - and also the first Hungarian monarch (who was alleged to have been given the Holy Crown from the Pope) - more acceptable for the Protestants. This theory later caused serious controversy between Catholic and Protestant scholars in the 18th century.

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Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények 123(2019) 5. 567-584.

in: Háborúk, alkotások, életutak. Tanulmányok a 17. század közepének európai történelméről, szerk... more in: Háborúk, alkotások, életutak. Tanulmányok a 17. század közepének európai történelméről, szerk. NAGY Gábor és VISKOLCZ Noémi, Miskolci Történelmi Tanulmányok (Miskolc, Miskolci Egyetemi Kiadó, 2019), 150–171.

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In: Politikai nyelvek a 17. század első felének Magyarországán. [Political languages in Hungary i... more In: Politikai nyelvek a 17. század első felének Magyarországán. [Political languages in Hungary in the first half of the 17th century.] Szerkesztette Kármán Gábor-Zászkaliczky Márton. Budapest, reciti, 2019. 119-154.

The life and ouvre of Mátyás Bél/Matej Bel/Matthias Bel.

The eighth volume in our text-edition series contains five sections of the Notitia, the extensive... more The eighth volume in our text-edition series contains five sections of the Notitia, the extensive country description by Mátyás Bél (1684–1749), that have survived in manuscript form: the descriptions of Temes, Csanád, Arad, Zaránd, and Békés counties. These texts have been unpublished to date. Although the descriptions of Békés and Csanád counties were earlier translated into Hungarian, the translators did not use the manuscript that preserves the most complete version of the text as the basis for their work. For researchers, these two county descriptions are thus worth revisiting.

In: Lymbus - Magyarságtudományi Forrásközlemények 2023. 215-259.

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In: Földügyi és hagyatéki szabályozás: Társadalmi gyakorlat Magyarországon a 16–20. században. Sz... more In: Földügyi és hagyatéki szabályozás: Társadalmi gyakorlat Magyarországon a 16–20. században. Szerk. Kis József, Kovács Eleonóra, Ö. Kovács József, Németh István. Magyar Kormánytisztviselői Kar – Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár, Budapest, 2023. 109-120.

In: A latin nyelv a kora újkori Magyarország és Erdély kultúrájában és művelődésében. Szerk.: Bék... more In: A latin nyelv a kora újkori Magyarország és Erdély kultúrájában és művelődésében. Szerk.: Békés Enikő – Kasza Péter – Molnár Dávid. Szeged, 2023. (Convivia Neolatina 5.) 47-62.

In my study, I examined the views of Mátyás Bél (Matthias Bel, 1684–1749), a prominent Hungarian pedagogue, geographer and historian, on the teaching of Latin. In the schools he led (Banská Bystrica, Bratislava), Bél wanted to implement the pedagogical guidelines of August Hermann Francke, the great Pietist school organizer and church reformer, and his beloved professor, in the teaching of Latin, for example, teaching in the mother tongue, and simplifying the material of grammar and rhetoric. He also wanted to introduce the textbooks of Christoph Cellarius, another of his professors, namely the Latin-German dictionary Liber memorialis and the Latin grammar in German, which served Francke's objectives but also represented a particular direction with their purist viewpoint. Consequently, Bél firmly rejected the old-fashioned and pretentious Donatus grammars and the textbooks of Comenius, which he considered to have been filled with "barbaric" neologisms. Bél also intended Castellio's Dialogi sacri to be a practice reading for the lower classes, in which he also followed Francke.
Bél's ideas on mother tongue education were challenged by the multi-ethnic (German-Slovak-Hungarian, sometimes „Vend” or Hungarian Slovene) student population in his schools. He therefore expanded Cellarius's dictionary into a quadrilingual one (Latin-German-Hungarian-"Czech", the latter for Slovaks), which proved to be a successful initiative. However, his German professor's Latin grammar in German was published only with a Latin translation by him, and this failed because of the disapproval of Hungarian school inspectors and administrators, who preferred to stick to the familiar old textbooks. Bél started translating the Cellarius grammar into Slovak and Hungarian, but did not finish them.
Bél was already well aware of the obsolescence of the humanist school programme, which focused on Latin language and placed great emphasis on rhetorical and poetic studies, and he experienced the dissatisfaction of the students with it. That is why he has already tried to emphasise the usefulness of learning Latin and to point out the areas where pure Latinism is important. He could not, however, change the fundamental nature of schooling, namely the dominance of Greek and Latin studies, but he was already striving to teach the realia (especially geography and history).

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Matthias Bel (1684–1749), Hungarian historian and geographer was as renowed that he could see his... more Matthias Bel (1684–1749), Hungarian historian and geographer was as renowed that he could see his own long biography in his life, which was published in 1746 by Johann Jakob Brucker and Johann Jakob Haid in two languages, and two separate series, but of identical content in the fifth volume of their "Pinacotheca scriptorum nostra aetate litteris illustrium" in Latin, and "Bilder-sal heutiges tages lebender, und durch Gelahrtheit berühmter Schrifftsteller" in German. With arguments based on both style and content, the present paper at first demonstrates that the text in question is in fact an autobiography. Next, it examines the roles in which Bel chose to present himself, in other words, the self-representation he used in the text. The major roles are the following: 1. the unfortunate student and reformer teacher; 2. the prosecuted pietist pastor; 3. the patriotric intellectual. Finally, the paper explores the extent to which the career of Bel was typical or idiosyncratic if placed in the context of the living conditions of the contemporary Protestant “Hungarus” intellectual elite. The concusion is that while his school years, university studies and early career presents several common features with the curricula of other contemporary Hungarian men of letters, Bel’s immense scientific production and its very high level was far from ordinary, and was not exclusively rooted in this “Hungarus” scientific world. Consequently, it may be misleading to regard Bel as a typical “Hungarus” intellectual.
Emphasising the necessity for a new, modern biography of Bel, the paper also outlines its plan as conceived by the author.

In the seventh volume of our textual edition series, we are publishing four texts from among the ... more In the seventh volume of our textual edition series, we are publishing four texts from among the unpublished manuscripts of the Notitia, the large-scale country survey by Mátyás Bél (1684–1749): the descriptions of Heves, Csongrád, and Bács-Bodrog counties, along with the description of the districts of Jász and Kun. Since — with the exception of Bács-Bodrog — these former counties and districts were located entirely within the borders of post-Trianon Hungary, it is no surprise that all the descriptions were translated into Hungarian. However, the original Latin text of only one of them, the description of Heves county, has been published — and unfortunately even this edition is somewhat problematic, since an inappropriate manuscript was used for publication.

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The greatest initiative of Bél Mátyás (1684-1749), the exquisite historian and geograp... more The greatest initiative of Bél Mátyás (1684-1749), the exquisite historian and geographer, was the encyclopedic overview of Hungary’s history and geography. However the county based descriptions are not only, as the title suggests “historical and geographical” (Notitia Hungariae novae historico-geographica), but also include educational- and literary history, folkloric approaches as well as thourough researches in the history of the church, genealogical studies, even treating archives and coat of arms descriptions. Bél differs from his contemporaries by de facto accomplishing his gigantic targets, although on some points incomplete due to reasons beyond his power. The printed volumes of his work prove his diligence and unique talent, his exquisite style and above all his universal perspective. The published volumes also show us that Bél managed to maintian a unified, clear structure, a solid order of topics in all the county descriptions despite the thematical abundance.

Hungarian historians and philologists began to publish a critical edition of the county descripti... more Hungarian historians and philologists began to publish a critical edition of the county descriptions of Matthias Bel's Notitia Hungariae Novae remained in manuscripts, based on the results of a comprehensive research made by the Hungarian historian Gergely Tóth. Calculating the length of the descriptions, they find it achievable to publish all the descriptions left in manuscript in 10 volumes. This is the first volume, which contains the descriptions of Árva and Trencsén counties.

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Ed. Gregorius Tóth, Bernadett Benei, Rudolphus Jarmalov, Zoltanus Gőzsy [et al.].

In our 10-volume series, we have undertaken to publish, in a critical edition, with detailed pref... more In our 10-volume series, we have undertaken to publish, in a critical edition, with detailed prefaces and content summaries, the county descriptions of Mátyás Bél's (1684–1749) Notitia, which have been preserved in the form of manuscripts. The present volume, the fourth in the series, contains the descriptions of Fejér, Tolna, Somogy and Baranya counties, thus completing the descriptions of the Transdanubian counties. We would like to express our hope that, like the earlier volumes in the series, this volume will also promote local historical research and provide a useful contribution to the work of historians, archaeologists, art historians and other researchers.

The publication of the present, fifth volume marks the halfway point in our 10-volume text editio... more The publication of the present, fifth volume marks the halfway point in our 10-volume text edition series. The goal of the series was to publish, in a critical edition, the county descriptions from the Notitia of Mátyás Bél (1684–1749), which have been preserved in manuscript form. The five volumes published to date contain 17 county descriptions — Árva and Trencsén in the first volume; Sopron, Vas, Zala and Veszprém in the second; Győr, Komárom and Esztergom in the third; Fejér, Tolna, Somogy and Baranya in the fourth; and Sáros, Zemplén, Ung and Bereg counties in the present volume.

In Volume 6 of our textual edition series we present four new portions of Matthias Bel’s large-sc... more In Volume 6 of our textual edition series we present four new portions of Matthias Bel’s large-scale encyclopedia of Hungary. The descriptions of Abaúj, Gömör, Torna and Borsod counties were hitherto available in manuscript form only; none of them had ever been published in print with the original Latin text. In terms of the translations, the descriptions of Gömör and Torna counties had earlier been published in Hungarian, while only small sections of the description of Borsod County had been translated, and nothing of Abaúj County. We therefore have every confidence that the current volume will be received with interest by researchers, as well as by the wider professional public: archaeologists, art historians, curators and local historians.

Mátyás Bél (1684–1749), the famous historian from Hungary, paid a good deal of attention through... more Mátyás Bél (1684–1749), the famous historian from Hungary, paid a good deal of
attention throughout his life to the genesis of the Hungarian language and alphabet, as
well as to the origins of the Hungarian nation itself. As for the roots of the Hungarian
language, Bél’s most important means of inquiry was Hebrew comparison on a Biblical basis (that is, comparing the individual languages to Hebrew), a method which had long been dominant in Europe but was already on the wane in the time of Bél. In support of it he elaborated a particular theory of his own. According to it Japheth, the ancestor of the Scythians and (in his interpretation) of the Hungarians, did not take part in the construction of the tower of Babel, and consequently his descendants preserved the “Adamic language”, that is, Hebrew, which would account for the “relationship” between Hebrew and Hungarian. The aim of Bél was to find a, possibly illustrious, place for the Hungarian language, generally unknown and thus regarded as barbarous, on the great linguistic tree, and to determine its position with regard to Hebrew and other languages. The same aim was served by the supposed relationship between the Székely (Szekler) runic writing and the ancient eastern alphabets, before all Hebrew; the Hungarians, and their supposed ancestors, the Huns and the Scythians, could thus be presented as nations of a very ancient culture.
As for the origins of the nation, Bél stuck to his opinion throughout his life,
proclaiming as he did that the Hungarians were of a Hun–Scythian–Avar origin. His
stubbornness should presumably be accounted for by the fact that the new theories
arguing for the Finno–Hungarian linguistic and ethnic relationship (Leibniz, Bayer)
were then still far from solidly established. Consequently, Bél continued to adhere to
the old theory, but wished to present it in a new form. Making use of the ancient and
medieval narrative works, he intended to breathe new life into the concept of
Scythian–Hun–Avar–Hungarian identity, and thereby to offer a critical prehistory of
scientific character, by elaborating similarities in lifestyle between the Hungarians and
their Scythian and Hun predecessors. The model he followed was probably Clüver’s
Germania antiqua. By attenuating the descriptions of Ammianus, and emphasizing the
neutral or positive remarks by Priscus, he tried to neutralise the negative overtones of
Scythian, and especially of Hun origins, for the negative image of the Huns was utterly
detrimental to the contemporary view of the Hungarians. Bél, of Slovak origins,
attributed a role to the “Slavs” (Slovaks) as well in his prehistorical conception: he
identified them as the Sarmatians and accordingly regarded them as indigeneous.
However, he argued that the Slavs had entered into an alliance, and even merged, with
both the Huns and the Hungarians, a reflection of the concept of the “host nation”
which characterised contemporary Slovak thinking. The origin of the Slovaks is but an
additional element in the theory of Bél, his major aim being the elaboration of a
representative and at the same time apologetical prehistory of the Hungarians.
The scholarly stance of Bél is in keeping with that of the so-called contemporary
Hungarus intellectuals: he regarded as his task to fight off foreign critiques and to
represent the Hungarian point of view in the international scientific discourse. Yet, in
contrast to his contemporaries, he took the field of history instead of literature and the
history of science. It is thus a protagonist of “Hungarus historiography” and “Hungarus
historical linguistics” that we have every reason to admire in his person.

In: Lymbus. Magyarságtudományi forrásközlemények. Főszerk. Újváry Gábor. Felelős szerk. Kerekes D... more In: Lymbus. Magyarságtudományi forrásközlemények. Főszerk. Újváry Gábor. Felelős szerk. Kerekes Dóra. Budapest, 2009. 135–170.

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Bél Mátyás és a Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum* Bél Mátyást (1684-1749), a jeles történész-polihis... more Bél Mátyás és a Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum* Bél Mátyást (1684-1749), a jeles történész-polihisztort 1744-ben felkérték, hogy egy készülő történeti forrásgyűjteményhez, a Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum veteres ac genuinihez előszót írjon. 1 Bél számára a felkérés kihívás és lehetőség volt egyszerre. Kihívás, mert a kiadvány összeállítói olyan magyar történeti forrásokat hoztak napvilágra, amelyek rendkívüli fontossággal bírtak, és elsőként Bélre hárult a feladat, hogy ezeket a kútfőket értelmezze, korukat, forrásaikat megállapítsa. Kihívás volt abból a szempontból is, hogy az új kútfők ismeretében -másrészt pedig a tudományág új eredményei, módszerei fényében -a történetírás honi fejlődéséről addig kialakított képet is át kellett értékelni, és az addigi kánont új szerzőkkel kellett gazdagítani. Lehetőség volt viszont számára arra nézve, hogy ismertethesse saját történészi elveit, s írás-* A tanulmány a Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj támogatásával készült. 1 A Bél személyével kapcsolatos irodalom 1984-ig: Blažej Belák [et al.]: Matej Bel 1684-1749. Výberová personálna bibliografi a k 300. výročiu narodenia Mateja Bela. Matica Slovenska, Martin, 1984.; a frissebb irodalomra ld. Tóth Gergely: Bél Mátyás Notitiájának kritikai kiadása. Bél eredeti elképzelései és az új kiadás terve. Fons 15. (2008) 425-443. A Schwandtner által szerkesztett forrásgyűjtemény pontos címe: Johannes Georgius Schwandtnerus: Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum veteres ac genuini, partim ex Bibliotheca Augusta Vindobonensi eruti; partim antehac quidem editi, nunc vero ex rarissimis et optimis editionibus ab innumeris mendis vindicati [...] et cum amplissima praefatione Matthiae Belii [...] in hanc nitidissimam formam redacti. I-III. Krauss, Viennae, 1746-1748. A kiadványra és benne Bél szerepére ld. Haan Lajos: Bél Mátyás. MTA, Bp., 1879. 58-59.; Hóman Bálint: Tudományos történetírásunk megalapítása a XVIII. században (1920). In: Uő: Történetírás és forráskritika. Szerk. Bárány Attila. Attraktor, Máriabesnyő-Gödöllő, 2003. (Historia Incognita I. 6.) I. 335-357., itt: 349.; Uő: A forráskutatás és a forráskritika története Magyarországon (1925). Uo. I. 363-408., itt: 380.; Gárdonyi Albert: A magyar történettudomány kezdetei. Protestáns Szemle 35. (1926) 361-372. (a Scriptoresben lévő, Bél által írt előszókat ismerteti, bár röviden és hiányosan, és tévedésektől sem mentesen); Richard Marsina: Matej Bel ako historik a editor. In: Matej Bel. Doba -život -dielo. Ed. Ján Tibenský. Slovenská Akadémia Vied, Bratislava, 1987. 238-246., itt: 242.; Kosáry Domokos: Művelődés a XVIII. századi Magyarországon. 3. kiad. Akadémiai, Bp., 1996. 148.; Szabados György: A magyar történelem kezdeteiről. Az előidőszemlélet hangsúlyváltásai a XV-XVIII. században. Balassi, Bp., 2006. 174-177.; Tüskés Gábor-Knapp Éva: A magyarországi neolatin irodalom kutatása a 18. században. In: Knapp Éva-Tüskés Gábor: Sedes Musarum. Neolatin irodalom, tudománytörténet és irodalomelmélet a kora újkori Magyarországon. Debreceni Egyetemi Kiadó, Debrecen, 2009. (Csokonai Könyvtár 44.) 48-83.; Erős Vilmos: A XVI-XVIII. századi történetírás. (II.) Világosság (2009. ősz) 127-137., itt: 130.; Tóth Gergely: Bél Mátyás ismeretlen történeti forráskiadvány-tervezete: a Collectio scriptorum Hungaricorum. Magyar Könyvszemle 127. (2011) 173-192. TÓTH GERGELY ba foglalhassa, hogy szerinte milyen feladatok várnak a hazai historikusokra. Bél elvállalta a feladatot, s nemcsak az első, hanem a második és harmadik kötethez is ő írta az előszót. A pozsonyi tudós utolsó nagyszabású munkái ezek -összesen 96 fólió-lap a három előszó terjedelme -, de színvonalukban, jelentőségükben az életmű méltó lezárásának is tekinthetők. A Scriptores keletkezése Bél az első kötethez írt előszavában, illetve annak VII. fejezetében beszámol a Scriptores keletkezésének körülményeiről. Eszerint a bécsi könyvkiadó, Johann Paul Krauss 2 felfi gyelt arra, hogy az addigi egyetlen nagy magyar vonatkozású történeti forrásgyűjtemény, a Bongars-féle, 1600-ban megjelent Rerum Hungaricarum scriptores varii 3 hiánycikk lett, s ezért elhatározta újbóli kiadását. Az új edíciót azonban a kor követelményei szerint kívánta elkészíteni, vagyis szükségesnek tartotta a kötetben szereplő művek kritikai vizsgálatát, a kéziratos példányok felkutatását, a jegyzeteket, illetve ki is akarta egészíteni a gyűjteményt az időközben felbukkant fontosabb forrásokkal. 4 Tervéhez, úgy tűnik, először Andreas Mohrt, 1731-1735 között a bécsi császári bibliotéka írnokát, később kancelláriai hivatalnokot kereste fel, ugyanis először ő jelentkezett levélben Bélnél valamikor 1744 nyarán, s kérte fel közreműködésre, tanácsadásra. Alighanem maga Mohr javasolta, hogy Bélt vonják be a munkába, ő ugyanis már korábbról ismerte a pozsonyi tudóst: többször közvetített Bél és Franz Jakob Herrgott Marquard udvari történetíró között. 5 Mohr levele nem maradt fenn, csak Bél válaszlevele, amelyből kiderül, hogy ekkor még csupán Thuróczy (illetve vélhetően a Thuróczyt is tartalmazó Bongars-kiadás) újbóli kiadásáról volt szó. Bél a válaszában üdvözölte a vállalkozást, de jelezte, hogy hajlott kora miatt a munkában már nem tud részt venni, inkább csak tanácsokat

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In his substantial historico-geographic opus, the Notitia Hungariae novae, Mátyás Bél (1684–1749)... more In his substantial historico-geographic opus, the Notitia Hungariae novae, Mátyás Bél (1684–1749) continuously shaped and modified his own concepts about the notion of contemporary Hungary, concerning its geographical and institutional boundaries. His views regarding Transylvania were ambivalent, being unsure how to include it in his opus; nonetheless he considered writing a Notitia Transylvaniae and he prepared a draft for it, which shows that he felt it his duty to describe this separated territory of the country. Croatia was not even considered, he planned however to present the counties of „new” Slavonia (that were created after the expulsion of the Turks) because he estimated it as the part of the Hungarian Kingdom. He prepared a thourough description of the Banat of Temes, disregarding the fact that it was ruled by the Imperial Court at the time, not the Hungarian Crown. Furthermore he wanted to include into the description of the Banat of Temes the new conquests of the 1716-1718 war – obviously due to the optimistic victorious athmosphere –, which covered the North-Serbian districts and the Banat of Kravoja, however this was only partially implemented, most likely due to lack of information. He wrote about the settlements on the territory of the Military Frontier and he indicated only sporadically that these places were entitled to special rights. With all this he seems to be willing to adjust to the viewpoint of the Hungarian estates since it was their claim to restore the conquered and reconquered territories of separate administration back under Hungarian jurisdiction. Furthermore Bél professed the standpoint of the so-called Hungarus-intelligentsia: the territory-driven patria concept and closely related to that, the research of Hungary’s historical rights and the restoration of its former borders.

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Matthias Bel (1684–1749), the famous Hungarian scholar, carried historical research throughout hi... more Matthias Bel (1684–1749), the famous Hungarian scholar, carried historical research throughout his life. „Hungarus” focused scholar as he was, he started his carrier with a history of the Hungarian language and continued with the origin and ancient history of the Hungarian nation. He reckoned that in Western Europe tha Hungarian have neither respect nor a general notority of their nationailty or language: therefore, as was a custom of his contemporaries, he demonstrated a close „kinship” between the Hungarian and Hebrew languages and the Hungarians with the ancient Scyths and Huns as people. In his giant country description, the Notitia, he was more focussed on the history of contemporary Hungary in a various manner: the Notitia abounds in histories of castles, cities and families, also in archontologies of archbishops, bishops and Lord Lieutenants – in all of which he demonstrates extensive knowledge of church history, antiquarianism and a good sense of source criticism. Towards the end of his life he put great emphasis on source edition as proven by his collection of sources, Adparatus, as well as his participation in the Schwandtner edited Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum. In this latter he contributed with a series of three essays that criticised vehemently the preceding Hungarian historiography and drafted a plan for its thourough reform. His life demonstrates well the coexistence of a „Hungarus” intelligentia (multinational, educated, defensive of their country against foreign attacks, nevertheless keen on elevating its scientific standards) and of a „Hungarus” period in the Hungarian historiography of which the representants stood for the same goals.

King Andrew II’s lawbook of 1222 at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was time... more King Andrew II’s lawbook of 1222 at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was timely due to the so-called clause of resistance that it contained, which provided a point of reference for the noble political movements of the period. Another relevant topic of the Bull was the noble tax exemption and military obligations. The Viennese court wanted to establish a standing army, which would have involved the taxation of both the nobility and the clergy. The aulic lawyers and historians (Adam František Kollár, Franz Rudolf Grossing, József Keresztúri) therefore wanted to prove that while noble military service was outdated, they were nonetheless obligated by the Golden Bull to defend their country – now in the form of a monetary contributrion. Other contemporary lawyers and historians likewise paid a lot of attention to the text of the Bull. János Jóny, then Mátyás Bél and János Tomka Szászky, and later János Szegedi, István Katona, and Márton György Kovachich were the first to understand the terms used by the Bull, and to become aware of its parallels with other early documents. The early history of the research of the Golden Bull is a good illustration of the birth of the Hungarian sciences of history in general.

In Hungary, the cult of St. Stephen, the first Hungarian king (reign. 1000/1001–1038), was condem... more In Hungary, the cult of St. Stephen, the first Hungarian king (reign. 1000/1001–1038), was condemned by Calvinist church writers for a long time. However, due to the successful Catholic propaganda of the figure of St. Stephen in the 17th century, the negative attitude had to be changed. This was understood by the scholarly Calvinist bishop, János Kocsi Csergő, who offered a completely different approach in his response (Malleus, 1704) to the Jesuit Márton Szentiványi's work Quindecim Dilemmata (1699). He believed that St. Stephen’s “laws” articulated “pure faith,” which Protestants “still” profess, but Catholics deviated from it. In addition, the Reformed bishop explains that this „pure faith” was not obtained by Stephen from Rome, but from the priests of the Greek Church. He cites as evidence of the laws of St. Ladislaus (reign. 1077–1095), some of whose articles have a truly Greek influence (the command to begin Lent by the Byzantine rite, and the concessions to married priests). He therefore considered, not unreasonably, that these peculiarities were the consequence of the Christianization of the Greek rite church in Hungary. With this reasoning, Csergő Kocsi tried to make Saint Stephen's person acceptable to the Protestant view of the past, and at the same time to seize him from the attraction of the Catholic cult.

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Ács Pál, Kasza Péter, Nagy Gábor, Bene Sándor, Tóth Gergely, Kees Teszelszky, Szabó András Péter,... more Ács Pál, Kasza Péter, Nagy Gábor, Bene Sándor, Tóth Gergely, Kees Teszelszky, Szabó András Péter, Szabados György és Soós István tanulmányai.

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English summary included, check the pdf file!

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Eds. Péter KASZA; Gergely TÓTH; Zsolt SZEBELÉDI; Emőke Rita SZILÁGYI; Mohács 1526-2026: Rekonstru... more Eds. Péter KASZA; Gergely TÓTH; Zsolt SZEBELÉDI; Emőke Rita SZILÁGYI; Mohács 1526-2026: Rekonstrukció és emlékezet; Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Budapest, 2020.

The work of Velius can be read in a critical edition in Latin and in a Hungarian translation; essays are in Hungarian and English.

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Adalékok Mikoviny Sámuel életrajzához. Mikoviny Sámuel a 18. század első felének legje lesebb mag... more Adalékok Mikoviny Sámuel életrajzához. Mikoviny Sámuel a 18. század első felének legje lesebb magyarországi mérnök-térképésze volt. Németországi egyetemi tanulmányai után, 1725-től Pozsony vármegye mérnökeként dolgozott, majd 1729-től kezdve az Udvari Kamara is számos feladattal bízta meg. 1735-ben a Selmecbányái bányatisztképző intézet tanárává nevezték ki. Később szaktudására igényt tartott a Magyar Kamara és a Helytartótanács is. Megbízták az alsó-magyarországi bányák vízmentesítésével, bányagépek üzembe helyezésével, a bányavárosok és kamarai birtokok felmérésével, csatornák, utak tervezésével, sőt folyószabályozással, határfelméréssel és hadmérnöki feladatokkal is. Rézmetszőként és térképészként is jelentősét alkotott. O készített több metszetet Bél Mátyás Notitia Hungáriáé novae historico-geographica című országleíró müvének 1723-ban megjelent tervezetébe, a Prodromusba, majd őt kérte fel Bél Mátyás, hogy magába a Notitiába megyetérképeket készítsen. Mikoviny elvállalta a feladatot, és a kiváló minőségű megye térképek mellett, a Notitia első és harmadik kötetébe (1735, 1737) egy-egy kartográfiai értekezést is írt, amelyben saját térképészi elveit, módszereit ismertette. 1750-ben hunyt el.1 A kiváló mérnök és kartográfus életrajzában több fehér folt is található. Az egyik ilyen a szü letési éve: a magyar szakirodalomban az 1700-as dátum terjedt el, noha az eddigi adatok alapján csak annyi tudható biztosan, hogy valamikor 1693 és 1704 között született.2 Szintén bizonytalan, mikor és hol végezte középiskolai tanulmányait. A korábbi kutatás felvetette többek között Besz tercebányát, feltételezve, hogy itt tanította Mikovinyt Bél Mátyás, aki 1708-1714 között az intéz mény tanára, majd rektora volt, s akivel később Mikoviny együtt is dolgozott.3

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Az eddigi kutatás keveset foglalkozott a Rákóczi-szabadságharc 18. századi honi történeti recepci... more Az eddigi kutatás keveset foglalkozott a Rákóczi-szabadságharc 18. századi honi történeti recepciójával. A vonatkozó historiográfiai összefoglalások megelégedtek annak megállapításával, hogy önként vagy kényszerbõl minden historikus az udvar álláspontját követte, vagy éppen szándékosan elhallgatta a korszakot. 1 Tapasztalatom szerint azonban a helyzet sokkal árnyaltabb: a 18. századi magyar történészek -természetesen az udvar hivatalos múltszemléletét tiszteletben tartva -meglehetõsen sokat írtak Rákóczi mozgalmáról, s igen nagy különbségek mutatkoznak meg közöttük bizonyos történeti szereplõk vagy események megítélésében. Az alábbiakban tehát az a célom, hogy áttekintsem a 18. század történetírását Katona Istvánnal bezárólag, és megvizsgáljam, hogyan örökítették meg mûveikben a szóban forgó idõszakot. Mivel úgy láttam, hogy a szerzõk narrációi közötti különbségek legfontosabb oka a szerzõk felekezeti hovatartozása, ez alapján osztottam fel a témát: elõbb a protestáns, majd a katolikus szerzõket vettem sorra. 1 Kosáry Domokos: Mûvelõdés a XVIII. századi Magyarországon. Bp. 1996. 146., 576., 583.; Köpeczi Béla: Az élõ Rákóczi. In: Köpeczi Béla-R. Várkonyi Ágnes: II. Rákóczi Ferenc. Bp. 2004. (Millenniumi magyar történelem. Életrajzok) 552-562., itt: 555.; R. Várkonyi Ágnes: Befejezetlen történelem. Áttekintés a szabadságharc történetírásáról, 1707-2003. In: A Rákóczi-szabadságharc. Szerk. R. Várkonyi Ágnes-Kis Domokos Dániel. Bp. 2004. (Nemzet és emlékezet) 717-773., itt: 728-730., 732. 2 Személyére és munkásságára legújabban, további szakirodalommal: Tóth Gergely: Bél Mátyás Notitiájának kritikai kiadása. Bél eredeti elképzelései és az új kiadás terve. Fons 15(2008) 425-443.

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The only group of sources for the examination of the 1514 Hungarian peasant war, the so-called Dó... more The only group of sources for the examination of the 1514 Hungarian peasant war, the so-called Dózsa revolt, has long been constituted by the narrative sources, before all the works of the early humanist authors. The event itself attracted considerable attention in Hungarian historiography after the Communist takeover in 1949, but the critical analysis of the relevant narrative sources and the collection of the primary sources (charters, letters etc.) only began in the 1970s. Then a number of historians already pointed to the misconceptions of humanist and later authors, but the myths and incorrect statements once put formulated continue to influence the scientific discourse even today.
In the first part of my paper I intended to prove that the antique historiographical tradition, before all the highly popular Bellum Catilinae by Sallust, exerted a very considerable influence upon the reception of the Dózsa revolt on the pen of humanist authors (Taurinus, Tubero, Iovius, Brutus, Istvánffy). The topos of the corrupt, greedy and profligate nobility, the figure of the ambitious and unscrupulous Dózsa as a „depraved son of his age”, the series of „Cegléd speeches” and the tradition of the battle at Temesvár all sprang from the imitation of the Sallustian model. Although these notions fail to stand the test of historical reality, or only do so to a very limited extent and on the level of generalities, the suggestive narrative of the humanist authors and their attractive and convincing argumentation have sublimed them to historical facts. Moreover, confessional biases further distorted the memory of events: already in the 16th century two interpretations, one Catholic and one Protestant, were clearly outlined. These rival interpretations mainly conflicted around the judgement of pope Leo X, who had issued the crusading bull, and of cardinal Tamás Bakócz, as well as over the extent to which the religious component in general was emphasised or passed over in silence.
As many as three centuries proved less than enough for Hungarian historiography to provide about the Dózsa revolt a balanced and reasonably unbiased view. As late as the end of the 18th century the archival sources were hardly put to use, and György Pray was the only one to turn to the foreign reports. Confessional bias remained as pervasive at the end of the period as ever before. It was apparently a consequence of this situation that the humanist topoi mentioned above have been solidly integrated into the reception of the Dózsa revolt, and that, strangely enough (and upon the influence of the Catholic authors), the analysis of the religious element had for a long time disappeared from the narratives of the event. All this seemed quite convenient later in the age of bourgeois domination, or still later, in the second half of the 20th century, when the examination of religious issues would only have caused an unwelcome divergence from the otherwise generally enforced view of suffering peasants and domineering and deprived nobility.

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Katona István 1800-ban jelentette meg a kalocsai érsekség történetét, amelyben a fő művéhez, a Hi... more Katona István 1800-ban jelentette meg a kalocsai érsekség történetét, amelyben a fő művéhez, a Historia criticához hasonlóan igen széles forrásbázis alapján, a rá jellemző óvatos mérlegeléssel tárgyalta a főegyházmegye és főpapjai históriáját. Éppen ezért annyira meglepő, hogy az érsekek közé felvette estoras Albertet is. 1 A soha nem élt főpap alakja éppen száz évvel korábban született meg a Trophaeum nobilissimae ac antiquissimae domus Estorasianae lapjain, amelyet esterházy Pál nádor adott ki. 2 Akár az ő személyes sikerének is lehet tekinteni, hogy a nagyrészt általa konstruált és nagyrészt fiktív családfa, benne a képzeletbeli Albert érsek még száz esztendő elteltével is ismert volt, sőt, a korszak egyik legnagyobb magyar történésze, a jezsuita adatgyűjtő történetírás betetőzője is hitelt adott neki! De legalább ugyanannyira lehet mindezt kudarcnak is elkönyvelni: Katona kudarcának mindenképpen, de az addigi honi történetírás részleges kudarcának is. emellett úgy vélem, a család is többet veszített a Trophaeummal, mint amennyit nyert.

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In: Via Sancti Martini. Szent Márton útjai térben és időben. Szerk. Tóth Ferenc–Zágorhidi Czigány... more In: Via Sancti Martini. Szent Márton útjai térben és időben. Szerk. Tóth Ferenc–Zágorhidi Czigány Balázs. Budapest, 2016. 229–240.

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Gottfried Schwarz (1707–1788) – director of the Lutheran school of Lőcse (presently Levoča, Slova... more Gottfried Schwarz (1707–1788) – director of the Lutheran school of Lőcse (presently Levoča, Slovakia), later professor at different universities in Germany – aquired his doctorate at the University of Halle in 1740 with his Initia religionis Christianae inter Hungaros that created quite a turmoil in the following years. Its main statement was that the Eastern Church was the initiator of Christianity among the Hungarians and its main purpose was to undermine the Catholic Saint Stephen cult and the Catholic historiographic narrative of the Hungarian state’s founding. In his work Schwarz paralelly initiated a frontal attack against a 17th century authority, Melchior Inchofer and his Annales, against Hartvic’s legend, against the Papal origin of the Saint Crown, against the Sylvester Bull and its believers and of course against the Holy See’s influence over the Hungarian Church and the legitimating thereof. As his foremost argument he used mainly but not exclusively the demonstration of the primacy of the Eastern Church in Hungary. It’s easy to discover the confessional motivations behind Schwarz’ considerable endeavour, the more so since many of his assertions trace back to previous Protestant historians’ statements, meaning that the arsenal of arguments had been gathering for a long time in the Hungarian Protestant Historiography. In my article I give an overview of Schwarz’ work’s content as well as his historical sources and scientific methods.

In: Scientiarum miscellanea: Latin nyelvű tudományos irodalom Magyarországon a 15-18. században. Szerk. Kasza Péter, Kiss Farkas Gábor, Molnár Dávid. Lazi, Szeged, 2017. (Convivia Neolatina Hungarica 2.) 61-68.

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In the introductory study of the volume, as one of the editors of the book, I am going to survey ... more In the introductory study of the volume, as one of the editors of the book, I am going to survey the three major research fields about Miklós Istvánffy: his career; the Historiae, his main oeuvre; and his poetry. I will provide a historiographical survey of these topics as well. I consider Historiae the most important field because this is Istvánffy’s most valuable legacy: a monumental history of 16th century Hungary, which became a first-class source of the era. However, the uncovering of the work has not been accomplished yet, we are lacking a critical edition of the Historiae as well as a modern translation. I think the reason for this is that Istvánffy is not as easily interpretable as his contemporaries, and thus, attempts at understanding the Historiae fail consecutively. However, research on Istvánffy’s career is on the right path: Gábor Nagy has made important discoveries in this field lately. Also, Istvánffy’s poetry has most recently been analysed by Zoltán Csehy.
In my paper, I will survey achievements of the papers of the present volume. As for the Historiae, several of the volume’s authors have clarified Istvánffy’s connection to the respective sources and also tried to place Istvánffy and his work within Hungarian historiography. I reckon that in my summary it is important to emphasise – in accordance with Szabolcs Varga, one of the authors – that a fundamental aim of the Historiae is the perpetuation of Ottoman-Hungarian conflicts and the heroic deeds of Hungarian border fortress garrisons, as certain members of Istvánffy’s family served there, and for a time, even he himself. In the volume, new information was discovered on Istvánffy’s life and family history: there is a separate paper on his paternal heritage, the 16th century history of the Istvánffy family, his years as secretary of the Chancellery, his first biography and his connections to Croatia. Finally, two outstanding papers elaborate on his poetry, the authors of which successfully present broader contexts, patterns and precedents of the poems. Moreover, another paper deals with his relationship to fine arts and how he can be connected to a book entry that contains an interesting information.
In sum, I think that even though there is still much left to be uncovered about the life and works of Istvánffy (a critical edition of the Historiae and its translation, the collection of his letters and their publication, archival research, translation of his poetry etc.) the papers of the present volume are an important step forward, they could help further research and contain important information on the history and culture of the era.

In: Katolikus egyházi társadalom a Magyar Királyságban a 17. században, szerk. VARGA Szabolcs és ... more In: Katolikus egyházi társadalom a Magyar Királyságban a 17. században, szerk. VARGA Szabolcs és VÉRTESI Lázár, Pécsi Egyháztörténeti Műhely 3, 297–314 (Pécs: Történészcéh Egyesület–META-Egyesület, 2018)

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In: A reformáció emlékezete: Protestáns és katolikus értelmezések a 16–18. században, főszerk. Sz... more In: A reformáció emlékezete: Protestáns és katolikus értelmezések a 16–18. században, főszerk. Száraz Orsolya, szerk. Fazakas Gergely Tamás, Imre Mihály, Debrecen, Debreceni Egyetemi Kiadó, 2018. 217-227.

Pál Okolicsányi’s work, Historia Diplomatica de statu Religionis Evangelicae in Hungaria, was printed in 1710. The author chronicled the almost two-century-long history of the Hungarian Lutheran and Reformed Churches – partly in a narrative form and partly by compiling documents. The initial manuscript was undoubtedly made in the summer of 1704, when the largest part of the country had already been conquered by the counter-Habsburg rebelling forces led by Ferenc Rákóczi II. In this period there was definite hope for conciliation. Consequently, Okolicsányi, who was a former member of parliament,
then the Lutherans’ agent in Vienna, finally a diplomat of the Habsburg court at this time, held it necessary to present the history and the current situation of the Hungarian protestant churches to the opposing parties and to the mediating ambassadors as well. He certainly believed that the forming agreement would guarantee the rights of Protestants. His Historia is the history of the Hungarian Lutheran and Calvinist
Churches from an external point of view. This history mostly appears to be a Passion, an infinite sequence of protestant grievances, afflictions, proposals, objections and requests.
This study examines the three kinds of narratives of the church historical part of Historia: the persecution of the Hungarian Protestant Churches, the presentation of victims as martyrs and the exclusive blame put on the Hungarian Catholic clergy. These narratives were based on actual experiences and grievances at the end of 17th and at the beginning of the 18th century. However, Okolicsányi and other authors extended the
narrative of persecution to an earlier history of the Protestant Churches
in Hungary as well. The author of this study points out how this interpretation became standard and remained dominant in the country’s Protestant historiography – primarily due to the fact that it was conform to new perspectives and ideologies but also because in the meantime this concept of the „persecuted church” became an integral part of the Hungarian Protestant identity.

In: A reformáció és a katolikus megújulás latin nyelvű irodalma. Szerkesztette Békés Enikő–Kasza ... more In: A reformáció és a katolikus megújulás latin nyelvű irodalma. Szerkesztette Békés Enikő–Kasza Péter–Kiss Farkas Gábor–Lázár István–Molnár Dávid. Budapest, 2019. (Convivia Neolatina Hungarica 3.) 45-56.

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in: Pál Fodor – Szabolcs Varga, Több mint egy csata: Mohács. Az 1526. évi ütközet a magyar tudományos és kulturális emlékezetben. [More than a Battle: Mohács; the Battle of 1526 in the Hungarian Scientific and Cultural Memory], Budapest, 2019, 75–148., 2019

Első rész: a 16. századi történetírás. (Part I. the historiography of 16th century)

In: Pontes: A PTE BTK Történettudományi Intézetének Évkönyve 4. Kárpátaljától Britanniáig: Középk... more In: Pontes: A PTE BTK Történettudományi Intézetének Évkönyve 4. Kárpátaljától Britanniáig: Középkori és kora újkori történeti kutatások. Pécs, 2021. 323-335.

Th e study deals with the history of a tombstone found at the archaeological excavations
in the Franciscan church of Szigetvár in the winter of 2020. Th e archaeological fi nd is
remarkable in several respects. Its unique character is provided by the fact that its upper
surface is covered not only with a coat of arms, but also with a lengthy Latin text. An
investigation of the inscription revealed that the deceased, a certain Major (Supremus
Vigiliarum Praefectus) Johann Collet, died in 1703 during a hunt in the vicinity of
Szigetvár. Th e study briefl y presents the historical context of the case: the situation of
Szigetvár in the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, the use of the church by the Franciscan order, as well as the most important moments of the 2020 archeological excavation.

A katolikus egyháztörténet-írás hajlamos heroizálni és misztifikálni a 17. század egyházi világát... more A katolikus egyháztörténet-írás hajlamos heroizálni és misztifikálni a 17. század egyházi világát. Ennek jele a korra ráaggatott számtalan címke, mely Pázmány koraként, restaurációként, újjászületésként, megújulásként jellemzi ezen évtizedeket, mintegy ellenételezésként a protestáns jeremiád szóhasználatnak, amely a gyászévtized, ellenreformáció, babiloni fogság és egyéb szemléletes jelzőkkel értelmezi ugyanezen eseményeket. Tény és való, a korabeli udvari – értsd Habsburg – politika eredményei könnyen eredményezhetik ezt a fénytörést Bécsben, Pozsonyban, valamint a Dunántúl és a Felvidék több területén. Ám teljesen más történet körvonalazódik Erdélyben, a Hódoltságban, és bizony fecseg a felszín, hallgat a mély, a magyarországi mindennapok világában is kevésbé értelmezhető bármelyik fenti meghatározás. A tanulmányokat végigolvasva inkább a 16. század folytatásának rögvalósága bukkan elő a forrásokból, és csak néhány területen érzékelhető számottevő változás az egyháziak számában, tanultságában és életmódjában.

This volume is a critical edition and translation in Hungarian of an unknown Latin work of the fa... more This volume is a critical edition and translation in Hungarian of an unknown Latin work of the famous humanist poet Johannes Bocatius (1569-1621), accompanied with two studies in English and Hungarian by Gergely Tóth and Kees Teszelszky. This work titled Hungaroteutomachia (Hungarian-German Battle) was written when Bocatius served as an envoy for Prince Stephen Bocskai during the so-called Bocskai Revolt (1604-1606) against Habsburg rule in the Kingdom of Hungary. Till now, this text was not recognised as written by Bocatius and was thus not included in the collected works of Bocatius, edited by Ferenc Csonka. The editors not only prove that Bocatius was the author of it, but also that it can be considered as probably one of his best works. The text consists of a fictive dialogue, or rather a colloquium, which takes place during the Bocskai Revolt, with five participants: a Hungarian, a German, an Italian, a Pole, a Transylvanian and a Turk. The theme of the conversation is the actual political situation at the time of the revolt. The participants exchange their opinions on the situation. The author thus presents an excellent summary of the various ways of thinking on the conflict between the Hungarians and the Habsburg king at that time. The final outcome of the sharp discussions quite clear supports the viewpoint of the Hungarians, as the Hungarian person swipes away the arguments of the German, the Italian and the Pole and thus justifies the resistance of Bocskai against Habsburg rule. Obviously, the Transylvanian and Turk support the Hungarian. The work must be considered a propaganda text in favour of Bocskai which must have been written in 1605 in order to win the hearts and minds of the Germans and to influence the Protestant public opinion in Western Europe. Some unknown verses of Bocatius were added at the end of the work, of which one is devoted to the holy crown of Hungary. The edition of this work will be very valuable for the research on the political propaganda of the court of Bocskai, the life work of Bocatius and the European political literature in general. It is also an addition to the corpus of the early modern genre of dialogues and the research on the use of this genre.

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In: Patachich Ádám érsek emléke. Zajezdai báró Patachich Ádám, kalocsai érsek (1776-1784) halálán... more In: Patachich Ádám érsek emléke. Zajezdai báró Patachich Ádám, kalocsai érsek (1776-1784) halálának 220. évfordulója alkalmából rendezett konferencia és kiállítás emlékkönyve. Kalocsa, 2004. november 17. Szerk. Lakatos Adél. Kalocsa, 2005. (A Kalocsai Főegyházmegyei Gyűjtemények kiadványai 4.) 95-98.

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Szilágyi Emőke Rita 2019. október 30-án vette át a fiatal textológusok számára alapított Kiss Józ... more Szilágyi Emőke Rita 2019. október 30-án vette át a fiatal textológusok számára alapított Kiss József-díjat a Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Irodalomtudományi Intézetében. A méltatás ebből az alkalomból
hangzott el.

The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (H... more The edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, Italy) by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history.

Instead of structural explanations like the model of state-building versus popular resistance, it wishes to put back the peasants themselves to the historical narratives of revolts. Peasants appear in the book as active agents fighting or bargaining for freedom, which was a practical issue for them. Nonetheless, the language of lord-peasant negotiation was that of religion, just as official punishments used Christian symbols.

In my paper, I wish to demonstrate the interpretations that existed in the early modern Hungarian... more In my paper, I wish to demonstrate the interpretations that existed in the early modern Hungarian historiography about the Dózsa revolt. The event's reception can be divided into about three periods: the humanist, the confessional and the "erudite" era. For the 16th–17th century’s humanist historians (Tubero, Brutus , Istvánffy) the uprising in my opinion offered an excellent opportunity to use the clichés of the moralizing Roman historiography; in addition, the confessional interpretation also appeared. In the 17th century, the Catholic and Protestant interpretations of the event even more clearly separated – especially regarding pope Leo X who issued the bull about the crusade, and the papal legate Thomas Bakócz. In the 18th century, historians tried to give a more objective interpretation by broadening the range of the sources for the research, but the religious aspect was very strong even in this era; consequently the historical reception of the events carried controversial points, that persisted in later periods as well.

Identity and Culture on Ottoman Hungary. Eds. Pál Ács–Pál Fodor. Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin, 2017. (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Türkvölker 23.) 367–386., 2017

In: Nicolaus Olahus 450: Proceedings of the International Conference on the 450th Anniversary of ... more In: Nicolaus Olahus 450: Proceedings of the International Conference on the 450th Anniversary of Nicolaus Olahus’ Death = Nicolaus Olahus 450: Tagungsband der internationalen Konferenz zum 450. Todestag von Nicolaus Olahus. Hrsg. Emőke Rita Szilágyi (Publikationen der Ungarischen Geschichtsforschung in Wien 17). Wien, Institut für Ungarische Geschichtsforschung, Balassi Institut – Collegium Hungaricum, Archivdelegation beim Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, 2019. 123–142.

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Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, King of Hungary, in 1622 held a Diet in Sopron, at which the cor... more Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, King of Hungary, in 1622 held a Diet in Sopron, at which the coronation of Empress Eleonora as Hungarian queen took place as well. Shortly after the coronation, on 4th August Ferdinand II renewed and augmented Sopron city's coat of arms, including the imperial double-headed eagle above the crest. Previous research interpreted the crest augmentation as a warning from Ferdinand to the city of Sopron to be loyal to the emperor – as in the previous years it was occupied by the troops of Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania –, furthermore as a display
of his ownership over the city. This study seeks to demonstrate that this approach is erroneous and anachronistic. The coat of arms or the crest augmentation were usually applied for in the early modern Hungary, and the applicants designed their own coats of arms. In Sopron’s case the applicant and the initiator was probably the mayor, Kristóf Lackner, who had been loyal to the emperor in his whole life, and it is clear from his freshly published autobiography as well as from other sources that he had used the imperial double-headed eagle and the city’s coat of arms very often in his works and also in the town’s representation. At the end of the study I publish the original text and the Hungarian translation of the crest augmentation
diploma.

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Soproni Szemle 72. (2018) 240–247.

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Praise of an excellent book.

pontosabb kezdő és záró dátumával. Abban az esetben, ha egy személy megszakítások kal többször is... more pontosabb kezdő és záró dátumával. Abban az esetben, ha egy személy megszakítások kal többször is elnyerte a címet, az a neve mellett fel van tüntetve.

Ismeretes a magyar történettudomány számára, hogy az oszmán hódítás folytán Magyaror-szág déli te... more Ismeretes a magyar történettudomány számára, hogy az oszmán hódítás folytán Magyaror-szág déli területein mélyreható és visszafordíthatatlan demográfiai átalakulások történtek-a tö-meges délszláv bevándorlás következtében mintegy a Balkán is "északabbra húzódott", melynek hatása és eredménye a visszafoglaló háborúk után is megmaradt. Az viszont már kevésbé ismert, hogy-amiként a magyar feudális intézményrendszer-a magyar katolikus egyház is elvesztet-te a kapcsolatot ezzel a területtel, illetve az itt élő katolikus hívekkel, s míg a hódoltság északabb-ra fekvő részein-főleg a 17. században-valamelyest vissza tudta állítani ellenőrzését, addig a Drávától és a Marostól délre, továbbá a Bácskában és a Szerémségben balkáni katolikus egyházi intézmények vették át a helyét, melyek a délszláv népességgel együtt észak felé terjeszkedtek. Molnár Antal könyve azt mutatja be, hogy ezek az intézmények hogyan kezdték meg misszióikkal feltérképezni e területet és hogyan építették ki ott szervezetüket, továbbá, hogy a reformpápaság, különösen az 1622-ben létrejött Propaganda Kongregáció milyen missziós tevékenységet folytatott-a balkáni katolikus egyházakkal együttműködve, vagy éppen azokkal szemben-Magyarország déli részén.

In his volume, Tamás Kruppa focuses on presenting the efforts of the Holy See to form an anti-Tur... more In his volume, Tamás Kruppa focuses on presenting the efforts of the Holy See to form an anti-Turk league in the Central and Eastern European region at the end of the 16th century (between 1578 and 1597). He also discusses the reception of these anti-Turk plans by the countries of the region and by certain members of the Báthory family, mainly Stephen Báthory, King of Poland (1576–1586), and Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (1588–1598). Beside these topics, the author emphasizes the relationship between Transylvania and the Ottoman Porte during this era, and the participation of the Principality in the Long Turkish War (till 1597). The book concludes that other sovereignties such as Venice, the Polish Kingdom, and the Russian Principality were not interested enough in taking part in a war against the Turks; and therefore, every attempt to include them in such a league was in vain. Finally, the volume includes important data and conclusions regarding the status of the Transylvanian Principality governed by the Báthorys in terms of its foreign policy and its relationship with other countries of the region – mainly the Holy See, the Ottoman Porte, and the Habsburg Empire.

An edition of an unknown work of the Hungarian humanist Johannes Bocatius with studies in Hungari... more An edition of an unknown work of the Hungarian humanist Johannes Bocatius with studies in Hungarian and English.