...The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Ways...: Festschrift in Honor of János M. Bak

More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the distinguished professor János Bak's 70th birthday. Notable contributors from many countries dedicate previously unpublished essays and articles in this celebratory Festschrift. Reflecting the intellectual calibre of János Bak, scholars not only of medieval history, but also from the fields of modern history, philosophy, linguistics, art history and political science provide a broad range of perspectives on a wide range of disciplinary areas thus allowing a wide readership audience. Tabula Gratulatoria Table of Contents Acknowledgments Gábor Klaniczay Preface I. PERSONALIA Baksi • András Bíró Finding (and losing?) the right path together (1945–48) • György Litván “Dorange”: A story of solidarity • András B. Hegedűs The Imre Nagy Institute in Brussels. A letter of sorts to János Bak • Péter Kende Bak—as I see him • Mihály Vajda II. ARTES Kunsthistorische Bemerkungen zur Vision des heiligen Gerhard/Gellért • Ernő Marosi Byzantium and the West: Music as a cultural betrayer • Nancy van Deusen The Holy Father and the evils, or could the Hungarian Angevin legendary have been ordered for a pope? • Béla Zsolt Szakács “Young, Rich and Beautiful.” The visualization of male beauty in the late Middle Ages • Gerhard Jaritz III. REBELLIONES Violence and the queen's body: Medieval consorts, statecraft, and disorder in twelfth-century France • John C. Parsons Violence and the social order in a medieval society: The evidence from the Henryków region, ca. 1150–ca. 1300 • Piotr Górecki Le Juif au tribunal: Cracovie, XVème siècle • Hanna Zaremska Images and designations for rebellious peasants in late medieval Hungary • Gábor Klaniczay Utopia and Reformation in Central Europe • Ferdinand Seibt IV. MAJESTAS Die Geburt Jesu, der Kaiser Augustus und die Sibylle von Tivoli • Bernhard Schimmelpfennig The adventus of Constantius II to Rome 357 A. D. • Marianne Sághy A glimpse of openness in medieval society: AI-Ḥakam II of Córdoba and his non-Muslim collaborators • Hanna Kassis Exeat Aula? Rulership in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan • Maria, Dobozy The livres bleu and rouge. Two coronation manuscripts in the cathedral of Reims • Richard A. Jackson Female control of dynastic politics in sixteenth-century Poland • Anna Brzezińska V. HAGIOGRAPHICA Mankind’s common intellectual substance: A study in the letters of Saint Antony and his Life by Saint Athanasius • István Perczel Constantine-Cyril, apostle of the Slavs, as "Bibliothecary," or how Byzantine was the author of Constantine’s Vita? • Ihor Ševčenko St. Stephen of Perm: Missionary and popular saint • Anna Kuznetsova Die Ungarnmission des hl. Adalberts • Ryszard Grzesik Was the cult of Saint Bartholomew a royal option in early medieval Croatia? • Neven Budak “Spekyn for Goddys Cawse”: Margery Kempe and the seven spiritual works of mercy • Mary Beth L. Davis VI. QUOTIDIANA Feast, games, and inversions: Reflections on The Ups and Downs of St. Gall • Janet L. Nelson A medieval parade? • Giedrė Mickūnaitė Signs of power and signs of hospitality: The festive entries of the Ordensmeister into late medieval Reval • Anu Mänd Beer in Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages • Richard W. Unger Kerbhölzer in Alteuropa—Zwischen Dorfschmiede und Schatzamt • Ludolf Kuchenbuch Housing in eighteenth-century Hungarian cities • Vera Bácskai VII. VARIA MEDIEVALIA A gift awaits an answer. A page from the cultural history of society • Aaron Ya. Gurevich Carolingian elopements as a sidelight on counts and vassals • Susan Reynolds Transcontinental trade from East-Central Europe to western Europe (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) • Balázs Nagy Enemy, obstacle, ally? The Greek in western crusade proposals (1274–1311) • Felicitas Schmieder Eternal allegiances. Duns Scotus’ place in the debate about the possibility of an eternally created world • György Geréby The vernacular languages of East Central Europe in the medieval period • Henrik Birnbaum A preface, mainly textual, to Alcuin’s De Ratione Animae • Paul E. Szarmach VIII. HUNGARICA Erbteilung und Familienbildung • Pál Engel The filial quarter and female inheritance in medieval Hungarian law • Martyn Rady Field systems in medieval Hungary • József Laszlovszky Was there a bourgeoisie in medieval Hungary? • Katalin Szende Die ungarische Politik Konrads II. • Herwig Wolfram Dux et praeceptor Hierosoliminatorum. König Ladislaus (László) als imaginärer Kreuzritter • László Veszprémy Die Domkapitel und ihre Domherren bis Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts in Ungarn • László Koszta Sweeney Summa Potestas Post Deum-Papal Dilectio and Hungarian Devotio in the reign of Innocent III • James Rass The mantle of Béla IV • Marianna D. Birnbaum Hungarians in an anonymous Byzantine geographical treatise • Sergey A. Ivanov The Knights of St. John and the Hungarian private legal literacy up to the mid-fourteenth century • Zsolt Hunyadi Defining the position of Croatia during the restoration of royal power (1345–1361) • Damir Karbić The fading glory of a former royal seat: The case of medieval Temesvár • István Petrovics A history of the Cyko family of Pomáz • Gábor Virágos Un ambassadeur bien choisi: Bernardinus de Frangipanus et sa mission à Naples, en 1476 • Szabolcs de Vajay István Werbőczy als Politiker vor Mohács (1526) • András Kubinyi Sebastian Thököly and his sensibility towards religious questions • Marcell Sebők La bibliothèque de Gergely Berzeviczy • Éva H. Balázs The “battle” of Nagykovácsi. A persona! memoir reconfirmed by the enemy • Béla Király IX. HISTORIOGRAPHICA Myths chasing myths: The legend of the Trojan origin of the French and its dismantling • Elizabeth A. R. Brown Geschichtsschreibung im Dienste von Herrschaftsinteressen am Beispiel Frankreichs im Spätmittelalter • Neithard Bulst The reign of Henry IV of England, 1399o1413. A century of historical research and writing • Kido Takeshi The historiography of the so-called “east colonisation” and the current state of research • Jan M. Piskorski The survival of medieval traditions at early American colleges to ca. 1800 • Leslie S. Domonkos Das Beispiel Ungarn im ständischen Osteuropa • Gottfried Schramm C. A. Macartney’s studies on early Hungarian history • László Péter Englishness between class and ethnicity • George Schöpflin Bibliography of the works of János M. Bak List of contributors These essays and articles have been compiled to pay tribute to Professor Janos Bak on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Contributions are made not only from scholars of medieval history but of modern history, philosophy, linguistics, art history and political science on a wide range of subjects.