CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Kozlowski, Wojciech |
|---|---|
| Title | PRELUDE TO THE ANGEVINS: MARRIAGES OF THE ARPADS AND PIASTS RECONSIDERED (986 - CA. 1250) |
| Summary | The history of political relations between Hungary and Poland in the light of the interdynastic marriages explains the evolution of the dynastic status of the Árpáds and Piasts and sets the background for the unprecedented military alliance in the middle of the thirteenth century, which developed into a firm cooperation that apparently became the legacy of the Árpáds, and then was “inherited” by the Angevins. The mutual dynastic relations of the Árpáds and Piasts are rather a neglected subject, and most scholarly works express the one-sided approach, which results in a limited and often superficial description. Therefore, this study aims to reconsider until now the prevailing opinions by confronting the most recent Hungarian and Polish secondary literature and introducing a statistical method to compare the “dynastic horizons” of the two houses. Such a comparison opens new ideas and viewpoints, which allow reconsidering the context and the meaning of the marriage between Bolesław the Shy and Kinga in 1239. This marriage, as the study argues, was a watershed in mutual Hungarian-Polish relations and in the long run, it set basis for the close Angevin-Piast alliance in the fourteenth century. |
| Supervisor | Nagy, Balazs |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/kozlowski_wojciech.pdf |
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