Medievalists.net » St. Stephen I of Hungary http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Dynastic Intrigues and Domestic Realities during the Reigns of Andrew I and Bela I http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/23/dynastic-intrigues-domestic-realities-reigns-andrew-bela/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/23/dynastic-intrigues-domestic-realities-reigns-andrew-bela/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:15:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53569 In the mid-1030s, the cousin of King Stephen I of Hungary, Prince Vazul (the son of Michael, the younger brother of Geza, Stephen's father) conspired to assassinate the elderly and ailing king.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/23/dynastic-intrigues-domestic-realities-reigns-andrew-bela/feed/ 0 Hungary’s Conversion to Christianity: The Establishment of Hungarian Statehood and its Consequences to the Thirteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/hungarys-conversion-christianity-establishment-hungarian-statehood-consequences-thirteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/hungarys-conversion-christianity-establishment-hungarian-statehood-consequences-thirteenth-century/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:21:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52242 The Carpathian Basin occupies a peculiar place in history. It was the ground where Roman-Germanic world met that of the Slavs and mounted nomad peoples, where no group had achieved sustained unity before the state of Hungary was founded.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/hungarys-conversion-christianity-establishment-hungarian-statehood-consequences-thirteenth-century/feed/ 0 The Role of the Byzantine Church in Medieval Hungary http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/the-role-of-the-byzantine-church-in-medieval-hungary/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/the-role-of-the-byzantine-church-in-medieval-hungary/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:13:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34529 The necessity for a change of country by the Magyars was a direct consequence of the policy of the Byzantine court.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/the-role-of-the-byzantine-church-in-medieval-hungary/feed/ 0 The Historic Origins of the National Assembly in Hungary http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/25/the-historic-origins-of-the-national-assembly-in-hungary/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/25/the-historic-origins-of-the-national-assembly-in-hungary/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:36:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25789 The Historic Origins of the National Assembly in Hungary Szente, Zoltán Historia Constitucional, No 8 (2007) Abstract The article examines the roots of Hungarian national assemblies. To discuss the changes of structure and functions from the establishment of the first deliberative assemblies up to the fully-developed feudal Diet, it suggests a conceptual framework for the ‘historic’ […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/25/the-historic-origins-of-the-national-assembly-in-hungary/feed/ 0 On the Foreign Policy of Saint Stephen http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/25/on-the-foreign-policy-of-saint-stephen/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/25/on-the-foreign-policy-of-saint-stephen/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:21:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25754 On the Foreign Policy of Saint Stephen Makk, Ferenc Saint Stephen and his country: a newborn kingdom in Central Europe: Hungary,edited by Attila Zsoldos (Lucidus, 2001) Abstract It is well known that both around the turn of the first millennium and today, in the time of the turn of the second millennium, we can talk about […]

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