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tions of the Kingdom of Hungary. Libri provinciales, lists of papal provinces,

were in fact typically immutable documents used all over Latin Christendom

for centuries.  e English examples presented in this study, however, suggest

that some of them re ect the practical knowledge that insular copyists possessed

about medieval Hungary.

 e Appendix provides an overview of the relevant passages of four manu-

scripts.  e lists reveal information about the relative geographical position and

size of the Hungarian province in Christian Europe. Despite the obvious ortho-

graphical variation suggesting the scribes’ unfamiliarity with foreign placenames,

the information about the Hungarian province seems to have remained rela-

tively consistent and precise throughout repeated copying. Besides addressing

the textual contexts, as well as the possible purpose and medieval use of this type

of document, the study examines the idiosyncracies of two identi able authors

who included these lists in their works: Matthew Paris and Gervase of Tilbury.

Both Matthew Paris’s and Gervase of Tilbury’s versions attest to an active

authorial and editorial approach towards Libri provinciales as integral parts of

their major works. Onone hand, Matthew’s copy reveals an acute sense of the

need to update and correct the traditional text by later generations. One the

other hand, Gervase’s version, thus far never examined as auseful medieval Eng-

lish source about Hungary, is unique because it contains passages and reorgani-

sation of material not found elsewhere. Itis one of the few surviving pieces of

textual evidence of the precise and up-to-date nature of pragmatic knowledge

of an English author about the relations between Slavonia and Hungary.  e

unique details of this rare example, as well as the number of other surviving

manuscripts suggesting arelatively wide dissemination of these lists, shed light

on the complexity of actual medieval English perceptions of Hungary. They

o er an insight into pragmatic English knowledge and perceptions which seem

to have been more informed than is usually re ected in historiography or other

surviving sources often strongly anchored in traditional narratives and bound to

the conventions of their genre.

G. Etényi, Nóra: Topoi and Innovation in the Early Modern Image

of Hungary in the Mirror of Seventeenth-Century

German Publications

The political, economic and military capacity of Early Modern Hungary, the

battleground in the struggles with the Ottomans, was ade nitive question for

the contemporary European public.  e interest in German pamphlets, historical

and geographical gazetteers and travel accounts about Hungary is strongly tied to

current military events in the Ottoman wars.  e Habsburg Empire had vested

interest in the dissemination of news to the widest public possible from the

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