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The patron saint of Hungary, the Virgin Mary, with St Stephen, St Emeric and St Ladislaus, a woodcut from a service-book from Venice, 1511

From the Veneration of the Virgin Mary to the Kingdom of the Virgin Mary: The Dedication of the Kingdom by Saint Stephen

During the reign of King Stephen, the political aspect of the King’s devotion to Mary was only secondary and could be seen much more as the individual devotion of a fervent Christian believer to Mary. However, posterity took a different…
A contemporary depiction of the death of Miklós Zrínyi, Ban of Croatia in 1664. (Date and artist unknown)

The Wild Boar: Hungary’s Historical Villain

This Saturday marks the anniversary of the death of Prince Emeric, the first Hungarian heir to the throne, who died at a tragically young age. His death during a hunting accident gave rise to conspiracy theories about his assassination and…

The Mystery of the Year 1000: The Birth of Central Europe

The year 1000 is not only memorable for Hungarians: at the turn of the first millennium, unexpected events took place in the whole of Europe, including on the fringes of the continent barely touched by Latin Christianity, in Poland and…

Political Networking in the Middle Ages: The Order of the Dragon

Sigismund of Luxembourg, the ruler who ascended the Hungarian throne in 1387, and whose first wife was the granddaughter of Charles I, could, of course, have heard of his predecessor’s order, and perhaps even followed his example when he himself…
Emperor Sigismund with the

Western Europe’s View of Hungary in the Middle Ages

From the perspective of Europe, the Hungarians’ conversion to Christianity was by no means an unbroken continuation of their raids—the Hungarian people was still considered suspicious, barbaric, and prone to paganism for a long time….

Charles the Great and Hungary

Charlemagne’s figure, as well as the myths and legends associated with him, had a great influence on medieval Western European chronicles and fiction, but medieval Hungarian historiography—similarly to Central European—was surprisingly little affected by it….

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