CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Snider, Jason Michael |
|---|---|
| Title | A Military Analysis Of Key River Fortifications Given To The Teutonic Order In The Banat Of Severin |
| Summary | Castles are pieces of material culture that reflect meanings for their builders in terms of function and take on further meanings and functions for their users throughout the lengths of their individual biographies. The Danuban castles of the Iron Gates region of Caraș-Severin and Mehedinți Counties in modern day Romania were built at separate times for separate defensive purposes. However, during the course of the 1420’s and into the 1430’s, these fortifications took on a more cohesive meaning for their inhabitants (which became the Teutonic Order from 1429 to about 1435), and for their overall sovereign, King Sigismund of Hungary (r. 1387-1437). During these two decades, these castles took on the function of a castle chain meant to be used as a combined protective wall on the Kingdom of Hungary’s Danube frontier against encroaching Ottoman forces. This work proposes to examine the quality of this chain by focusing on the military characteristics of selected individual links. Given the success of the Ottoman invasion of 1432, it becomes necessary to see if there is a “weakest link”. |
| Supervisor | Laszlovszky, József |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/snider_jason.pdf |
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