Medieval Buda in Context

Balázs Nagy is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and visiting faculty at the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. His main research interests are medieval economic and urban history.Martyn Rady is Masaryk Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He was for ten years part of the team that edited and translated the corpus of the laws of medieval Hungary together with János M. Bak.Katalin Szende is Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. Her research concentrates on medieval towns in the Carpathian Basin and Central Europe, with particular regard to society, demography, literacy, everyday life, and topography.András Vadas is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research interests are environmental and economic history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1: Buda: History, Sources, Historiography1 The Budapest History Museum and the Rediscovery of Medieval BudaZoltán Bencze2 The Fate of the Medieval Archives of Buda and PestIstván KenyeresPart 2: Buda before Buda3 Buda before Buda: Óbuda and Pest as Early CentersEnikő Spekner4 ‘A castle once stood, now a heap of stones…’ the Site and Remains of Óbuda in Medieval Chronicles, National Epics, and Modern Fringe TheoriesJózsef Laszlovszky and James Plumtree5 A Royal Forest in the Medium RegniPéter SzabóPart 3: The Topography of Buda6 Royal Residences in Buda in Hungarian and European ContextKároly Magyar7 Buda-Pest 1300 – Buda-Pest 1400. Two Topographical SnapshotsAndrás Végh8 The Monastic Topography of Medieval BudaBeatrix F. Romhányi9 Sacred Sites in Medieval BudaGábor Klaniczay10 Merchants, Markets, and Shops in Late Medieval Buda, Pest and ÓbudaJudit Benda11 Commercial Contacts of Buda along the Danube and beyondIstván DraskóczyPart 4: Buda as a Power Center12 The Government of Medieval BudaMartyn Rady13 Diets and Synods in Buda and Its EnvironsJános M. Bak and András Vadas14 Royal Summits in and around Medieval BudaBalázs Nagy15 Buda, Medieval Capital of HungaryAndrás KubinyiPart 5: Court Culture of a ‘Capital’16 Made for the King: Sigismund of Luxemburg’s Statues in Buda and Their Place in Art HistorySzilárd Papp17 The Court of the King and Queen in Buda in the Jagiellonian AgeOrsolya Réthelyi18 Buda as a Center of Renaissance and HumanismValery ReesPart 6: Buda beyond Buda19 Buda: From a Royal Palace to an Assaulted Border Castle, 1490–1541László Veszprémy20 The Last Medieval King Leaves BudaAntonín Kalous21 Buda and the Urban Development of East Central EuropeKatalin SzendeAppendicesSelect Bibliography on the History of Medieval BudaIndex of Geographic NamesIndex of Personal Names