Az ifjú király és a meggondolatlan hadvezér. Új források II. Lajos és a mohácsi csata kora újkori megítéléséhez (original) (raw)

Kanász Viktor: Az ifjú király és a meggondolatlan hadvezér. Új források II. Lajos és a mohácsi csata kora újkori megítéléséhez. In: Varga Szabolcs (szerk.): Elsüllyedt Mohács. Újabb tanulmányok a mohácsi csatával kapcsolatos kutatások eredményeiről, Budapest, 2023. 167–175.

THE YOUNG KING AND THE RECKLESS GENERAL New sources for the early modern interpretation of Louis II and the battle of Mohács Many of the thinkers of the post-Mohács generations expressed their opinions about King Louis II, Pál Tomori, Archbishop of Kalocsa, and the campaign that brought the end of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. This shows that the battle, which had taken place a generation earlier, was a long-standing preoccupation of history-writers of Hungary. The further expansion of this growing corpus of archival and library sources is an important task for Hungarian historiography preparing for the 500th anniversary of Mohács. In this paper, I have presented the Mohács reflections found in the works of five early modern authors, Pietro Duodo of Venice, Laurentius Surius of Germany, René de Lucinge of Savoy, Levinus Hulsius of Flanders and John Dickenson of England. The interpretations are very varied: some focus on the facts, while others give a longer description, as well as the underlying motives and the international context. Their descriptions do not enrich our lexical knowledge of the battle and its aftermath, and in some cases they even contain incorrect information. Nevertheless, their importance should not be underestimated, as they shed new light on the reception of Mohács and show how humanists of different denominations, origins and educational backgrounds in the second half of the 16th and early 17th centuries viewed the events.