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The article is dedicated to the politics of Matthias Corvinus in Upper Silesia, namely to his attempt to establish a new family domain there. He intended to hand down the new domain to his illegitimate son John Corvinus. The authors try to answer the question whether the establishment of this domain was solely Corvinusʼ reaction to the politics of the local dukes, or whether it was a well-planned power strategy and the goal was to gain supremacy over the strategic space on the borders of three kingdoms — Bohemia, Poland and Hungary.
Zapiski Historyczne
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2022
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vol. 87
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issue 2
5-21
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Historiography is increasingly focusing its attention on the diplomatic history of the period of Matthias Corvinus. There have been numerous analyses of his relations with the Papal Court, the Bohemian orders and the Holy Roman Emperor. Matthias’ conflict with the Jagiellons is on its own a separate chapter. We find relatively few original documents amongst the sources that relate to the subject, therefore, if we have the opportunity to examine some of these with regard to a certain topic, we must take advantage of it. Several charters relating to Matthias’ peace treaty with the Jagiellons in 1474 in Ófalu/Spišská Stará have survived in their original form, so in addition to the diplomatic process of the peace treaty, we can also inspect the seals of the negotiating parties on the original charters. In the present paper, after a brief historical introduction and describing the research background, I will make a detailed examination of three charters that were issued by the Hungarian side. The documents show who from the Hungarian and Polish sides took part in the negotiations, and the surviving seals of the six Hungarian participants. The paper describes in a nutshell the careers of the negotiating parties, and gives a description of the surviving seals, accompanied by pictures. Because of its short form, the paper cannot attempt to provide a synthesis of diplomatic history, nevertheless, it aims to publish the biography of the “peacemakers”, and to present a specific source type.
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The aim of the article is to prove the falsity of the thesis formulated in the Deputies’ draft resolution which was submitted to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland on 2 February 2022 (No. 2008). The authors of the draft requested that the codex with the work Epistola de laudibus augustae bibliothecae atque libri quatuor versibus scripti eodem argumento ad serenissimum Mathiam Corvinum Panoniae regem by Naldo Naldi, written around 1486 and stored in Książnica Kopernikańska in Toruń (ref. 107), to be handed over to Hungary as an expression of ‘gratitude to the Hungarian people’, because the manuscript allegedly ‘has no close connection with Polish history.’ Such a claim is false, but to date there has been no study that would link the history of Toruń’s codex to Naldi’s work. Earlier Polish scholars mentioned this document in the context of later works, such as those written by Peter Jaenichen in 1717, or mentioned only the fact that the work was stored in Książnica Kopernikańska. Hungarian scholars also provide incorrect information claiming that the codex has been in Toruń since 1684. However, source research has shown close connections of Naldi’s work with Toruń at least from 1594, when the codex found its way to the library of the Toruń Academic Gymnasium, and at the same time appeared in print edited by Ulrich Schober. Archival research has also shown the presence of Naldi’s work in many texts of Toruń from the late sixteenth and the first half of the eighteenth century, which testifies to its great significance for the city’s inhabitants and the students (including Hungarians) who came to the city.
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The Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (Ordo Fratrum Eremitarum Sancti Pauli Primi Eremitae) was following the spiritual lifestyle of the „first hermit”, Saint Paul of Thebes († 342). The formation of this order started in the first half of the 13th century, when hermits started to live in hermitages in the Patach Mountains in the Diocese of Pécs and in the Pilis Mountains in the south-east of Esztergom, following the example of the Old-Christian hermits in the deserts of Egypt. Blessed Eusebius of Esztergom († 1270) united the hermits who were scattered in caves and around 1250 they built the Holy Cross Monastery close to what is today Kesztölc-Klastrompuszta. Approvals granted by a legate of the Pope, Cardinal Gentilis of Montefiore, were an important step in the process of the formation of this new Order of Pauline Fathers, allowing them to follow the rule of Saint Augustine and create their own constitution. The centre of this monastic society and the seat of the General Priory was the monastery connected to the St. Lawrence Church in Buda. The contemplative nature of the order was clearly implied by their motto Solus cum Deo solo, and the religious practices of the monks included meditation near the relics of saints, the recitation of numerous prayers for the dead and the intensive worship of Mary. The order thrived in the 14th century: while 22 Pauline monasteries were built during the 40 year reign of Louis the Great (1342–1382), 16 monasteries were founded in 70 years plus that followed (1382–1458). The defeat of Hungarian troops at Mohács (1526) did great damage to the order. However, Turkish ravages were not the only cause of the dissolution of the monasteries at that time. The rapidly-spreading ideas of reformation also drew the attention of important Hungarian noblemen; even though they were the descendants of the founders of the monasteries, they converted to Protestantism and appropriated the possessions of the church in their territories.
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A recent attempt to re-date the paper and watermark of folios from the socalled ‘Lviv/Lvov fragments’ transmitting parts of the Gloria and Credo of Josquin’s Missa L’homme armé sexti toni makes it feasible to suggest that copying of the Mass may already have taken place in the early 1490s. That might even suggest that the Mass was composed some years before its inclusion in those fragments, which would add Josquin’s Mass to a group of early transmissions in Central Europe of compositions by composers of his generation from the late 1470s onward. Only around the turn of the century do several isolated parts of the Mass appear in manuscripts from surrounding parts of Central Europe. Its composer’s whereabouts between July 1485 and early 1489 are unknown, but a sixteenth-century reference to his stay as a singer at the court of the art-loving Hungarian-Bohemian King Matthias Corvinus would fit that period well. Moreover, the composition of a L’homme armé Mass would have been in perfect harmony with the political objectives of Corvinus, who had just proclaimed Vienna the capitol of the Kingdom as well as his preferred residence. This contribution explores various structural aspects of Josquin’s transmitted setting, which, by way of numerological symbolism of the period, equally suggests references to the King as ‘L’homme armé’ of the Deity.
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Nedávný pokus o revizi datování papíru na základě filigránu z tzv. „Lvivských/ Lvovských zlomků“, obsahujících části Gloria a Credo z Josquinovy Mše L’homme armé sexti toni, připouští úvahu, že k opisování dané mše mohlo dojít již počátkem 90. let 15. století. Z toho by dokonce mohlo dále vyplývat, že tato mše mohla být napsána několik let před zařazením do uvedených zlomků, což by Josquinovu mši přičlenilo k souboru raných středoevropských výskytů skladeb od skladatelů jeho generace z období od 70. let 15. století. Až kolem přelomu století se několik samostatných částí mše objevuje v rukopisech z okolních částí střední Evropy. O místě pobytu jejího skladatele v období mezi červencem 1485 a počátkem roku 1489 nevíme nic, tohoto období by se však mohl docela dobře týkat i odkaz z 16. století na jeho působení coby zpěváka na dvoře uměnímilovného uherského a českého krále Matyáše Korvína. Zkomponování Mše L’homme armé by navíc naprosto vyhovovalo Korvínovým tehdejším politickým záměrům, právě v této době totiž prohlásil Vídeň za hlavní město království a své vyvolené sídlo. Tento příspěvek zkoumá rozmanité stavebné aspekty Josquinova zhudebnění, z nichž v souladu s dobovou numerologickou symbolikou rovněž vyplývá možnost odkazů na osobu krále jakožto „zbrojnoše“ („L’homme armé“) Božího.
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This study continues long-term specialist discussions on the constitutional relationship between the Lands of the Czech Crown and the Holy Roman Empire in the period of the Early Modern Age. With the help of new primary resources, the author focuses on the period 1477–1495 during which the exclusion of the Czech Lands from a newly formed Roman-German Empire took place. The emergence of a new constitutional arrangement was completed through the consent of all four participating parties (King of the Romans – the Imperial Estates – the King of Bohemia – the Czech Estates), therefore it was conflict-free. The exclusion of the Czech Lands from the Empire was not the result of the emancipation struggle of the Czech Estates, whether national or religious, but it occurred within the context of the internal re-structuralisation of the Empire at the beginning of the Imperial Reform of Maximilian I. From the very beginning of the emergence of the Early Modern Roman-German Empire in 1495, the Lands of the Czech Crown were not part of it, neither de facto nor de iure, although in the course of the following two centuries these two neighbouring state formations happened to have a joint ruler from time to time. This formerly rather unusual perspective, yet in the author’s view, sufficiently documented by primary sources, on the constitutional development of Early Modern Medieval Europe provides a broader framework for interpretations of long-term trends in the history of the 16th and the 17th centuries.
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