The man of many devices, who wandered full many ways-- : festschrift in honour of János M. Bak

Tabula GratulatoriaAcknowledgmentsPrefaceI. PERSONALlAAndrás Biró BaksiGyörgy Litván Finding (and losing?) the right path together (1945-48)András B. Hegedűs "Dorange": A story of solidarityPéter Kende The Imre Nagy Institute in Brussels. A letter of sorts to János BakMihály Vajda Bak - as I see himII. ARTESErnő Marosi Kunsthistorische Bemerkungen zur Vision des heiligen Gerhard/GellértNancy van Deusen Byzantium and the West: Music as a cultural betrayer Béla Zsolt Szakács The Holy Father and the evils, or could the Hungarian Angevin Legendary have been ordered for a pope? Gerhard Jaritz "Young, Rich and BeautifuI." The visualization of male bea ut y in the late Middie Ages III. REBELLIONESJohn C. Parsons Violence and the queen's body: Medieval consorts, statecraft, and disorder in twelfth-century France Piotr Górecki Violence and the social order in a medieval society: The evidence from theHenryków region, ca. 1150-ca. 1300 Hanna Zaremska Le Juif au tribunal: Cracovie, XVeme siecle Gábor Klaniczay Images and designations for rebellious peasants in late medieval HungaryFerdinand Seibt Utopia and Reformation in Central Europe IV. MAJESTASBernhard Schimmelpfennig Die Geburt Jesu, der Kaiser Augustus und die Sibylle von Tivoli Marianne Sághy The adventus of Constantius II to Rome 357 A. D. Hanna Kassis A glimpse of openness in medieval society: Al-I:Iakam II of Córdoba and his non-Muslim collaboratorsMaria, Dobozy Exeat Aula? Rulership in Gottfried von Strassburg's TristanRichard A. Jackson The livres bleu and rouge. Two coronation manuscripts in the cathedral of Reims Anna Brzezilíska Female control of dynastic politics in sixteenth-century Poland V. HAGIOGRAPHICAIstván Perczel Mankind's common inteIIectual substance: A study in the letters of Saint Antony and his Life by Saint Athanasius Ihor Sevcenko Constantine-CyriI, apostle of the Slavs, as "Bibliothecary," or how Byzantine was the author of Constantine's Vita? Anna Kuznetsova St. Stephen of Perm: Missionary and popular saint Ryszard Grzesik Die Ungarnmission des hl. Adalberts Neven Budak Was the cult of Saint Bartholomew a royal optio n in early medieval Croatia? Mary Beth L. Davis "Spekyn for Goddys Cawse": Margery Kempe and the seven spiritual works of mercy VI. QUOTIDIANAJanet L. Nelson Feast, games, and inversions: Reflections on The Ups and Downs of St. GallGiedré Mickünaité A medieval parade? Anu Mand Signs of power and signs of hospitality: The festive entries of the Ordensmeister into late medieval Reval Richard W. Unger Beer in Eastern Europe in the MiddIe Ages Ludolf Kuchenbuch Kerbhölzer in Alteuropa - Zwischen Dorfschmiede und Schatzamt Vera Bácskai Housing in eighteenth-century Hungarian cities VII. VARIA MEDIEVALIAAaron Ya. Gureuich A gif t awaits an answer. A page from the cultural history of society Susan Reynolds Carolingian elopements as a sidelight on counts and vassals Balázs Nagy Transcontinental trade from East-Central Europe to western Europe (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) Felicitas Schmieder Enerny, obstacle, aIIy? The Greek in western crusade proposals (1274-1311) György Gere'by Eternal aIIegiances. Duns Scotus' place in the debate ab out the possibility of an eternaIly created world Henrik Birnbaum The vernacular languages of East Central Europe in the medieval period Paul E. Szarmach A preface, mainly textual, to Alcuin's De Ratione Animae VIII. HUNGARICAPál Engel Erbteilung und Familienbildung Martyn Rady The filial quarter and female inheritance in medieval Hungarian law József Laszlovszky Field systems in medieval Hungary Katalin Szende Was there a bourgeoisie in medieval Hungary? Herwig Wolfram Die ungarische Politik Konrads II. László Veszprémy Dux et praeceptor Hierosoliminatorum. König Ladislaus (László) als imaginarer Kreuzritter László Koszta Die Domkapitel und ih re Domherren bis Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts in Ungarn James Ross Sweeney Summa Potestas Post Deum-Papal Dilectio and Hungarian Devotio in the reign of Innocent III Marianna D. Birnbaum The mantIe of Béla IV Sergey A. Ivanov Hungarians in an anonymous Byzantine geographical treatise Zsolt Hunyadi The Knights of St. John and the Hungarian private legal literacy up to the mid-fourteenth century Damir Karbié Defining the position of Croatia du ring the restoration of royal power (1345-1361) István Petrovics The fading glory of a forrner royal seat: The case of medieval Temesvár Gábor Virágos A history of the Cyko family of Pomáz Szabolcs de Vajay Un ambassadeur bien choisi: Bernardinus de Frangipanus et sa mission a Naples, en 1476 András Kubinyi István Werbőczy als politiker vor Mohács (1526) Marcell Sebők Sebastian Thököly and his sensibility towards religious questions Éva H. Balázs La bibliotheque de Gergely Berzeviczy Béla Király The "battIe" of Nagykovácsi. A personal memoir reconfirmed by the enemy IX. HISTORIOGRAPHICAElizabeth A. R. Brown My ths chasing my ths: The legend of the Trojan origin of the French and its dismantling Kido Takeshi The reign of Henry IV of England, 1399-1413. A century of historical research and writing Jan M. Piskorski The historiography of the so-caIIed "east colonisation" and the current state of research Leslie S. Domonkos The survival of medieval traditions at early American coIIeges to ca. 1800 Gottfried Schramm Das Beispiel Ungarn im standischen Osteuropa László Péter C. A. Macartney's studies on early Hungarian history George Schöpflin Englishness between class and ethnicity Bibliography of the works of János M. Bak List of contributors