CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Illés, Kornél András |
|---|---|
| Title | Inter res publicas canent Musae. The Diplomatic Relationship between Hungary and the Papacy in the Epistolary of John of Zredna between 1444 and 1451 |
| Summary | The citations taken from texts of antique authors play a major role in the narratives John of Zredna built in the letters he wrote to the Holy See between 1444 and 1451 in the name of John Hunyadi and the royal council of Hungary. The significance of the quotations was already shown by previous research, chiefly by Iván Boronkai, however, only a very narrow selection of citations was thoroughly examined and the citations have not been connected to their immediate political context yet. In the present thesis it is shown that the overarching strategy of applying citations in these letters is situational similarity between the issues contemporaneous with John of Zredna and the stories of ancient past. However, it is also demonstrated that through the repeated use of particular ancient stories, parallels drawn between medieval and ancient individuals and political entities could also assume a meaningful position in the narratives John of Zredna formulated. It has also been proven that the cultural policies of the renaissance Papacy beginning with the pontificate of Nicholas V, and the changes in Hungarian diplomatic strategy after the lost battle of Kosovo Polje in 1448 had a profound impact on the way John of Zredna used citations. Moreover, it is established that the citations John of Zredna used tied his texts to a characteristically humanistic as well as chiefly Germanic cultural milieu. |
| Supervisor | Nagy, Balázs; Szende, Katalin |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/illes_kornel.pdf |
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