Ebook: Realm of St Stephen, The: a History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526
Author: Ayton Andrew, Engel Pál, Palosfalvi Tamas
- Tags: Árpád House of, Hungary--History--1000-1699, Hungary--History--896-1000, Magyars, Electronic books, Árpád House of, Hungary -- History -- 1000-1699, Hungary -- History -- 896-1000
- Series: International Library of Historical Studies
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: I.B.Tauris
- City: London
- Language: English
- epub
Now recognised as the standard work on the subject, Realm of St Stephen is a comprehensive history of medieval Eastern and Central Europe. Pál Engel traces the establishment of the medieval kingdom of Hungary from its conquest by the Magyar tribes in 895 until defeat by the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526. He shows the development of the dominant Magyars who, upon inheriting an almost empty land, absorbed the remaining Slavic peoples into their culture after the original communities had largely disappeared. Engel's book is an accessible and highly readable history.'This is now the sta.;Cover ; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Carpathian Basin Before the Hungarians; 2. The Pagan Hungarians; 3. The First Century of the Christian Kingdom; 4. The Twelfth Century; 5. Early Hungarian Society; 6. The Age of the Golden Bulls; 7. The Last Arpadians; 8. Charles I of Anjou (1301 -- 1342); 9. The New Monarchy; 10. Louis the Great (1342-1382); 11. The Monarchy of Louis the Great; 12. The Years of Crises (1382-1403); 13. Sigismund's Consolidation; 14. Sigismund's Foreign Policy (1403-1437); 15. Trade and Towns; 16. The Rural Landscape.
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