Papers by István Kovács
István Kovács, Nov 8, 2021
This study examines the early development of the function as place of authentication in the case ... more This study examines the early development of the function as place of authentication in the case of the collegiate chapter of Arad from the first issued diploma (1229) to the death of King Charles I. Although earlier historiography examined some of the important places of authentication (e.g., Pécs, Csanád), in casé of Arad, only oné historian, Kálmán Juhász analyséd oné hundréd yéars ago the first charters and the authentication function. The study will present the historiography some aspects about charter issuing, the flow of information between medium regni (Buda, Viségrád) and Arad. I have also collected the contributors related to the place of authentication (dignitaries, canons and choir priests). In Appendix, I have published the list of the diplomas issued by the collegiate chapter of Arad with the main details between 1229 and 1342.
Kovács István, 2020
This paper aims to show how literacy formed and developed in the southern part of the Great Hunga... more This paper aims to show how literacy formed and developed in the southern part of the Great Hungarian Plain from the first steps to the years of the late Arpadian and the early Anjou periods. There are five parts of the present article, in which the Historiographical background, The amount of diplomas, The procedure and the information flow, Ranks appearing in the charters and The conclusion are introduced. Firstly, the paper presents the main researchers and their most important studies on the topic of loca credibililia. On one hand, general literature on the issue (f.e. the discussions of Ferenc Eckhart and László Koszta) is mentioned and on the other hand, the more specific segments of literature are presented (f.e. works of Kálmán Juhász). In the second part of the paper, 46 charters are analysed in terms of form as well as the location and reason of publishing. Based on their form, diplomas may be divided into three types: fassiones, relationes and transsumptiones."In terms of procedure and information flow, I analyse the quickest and slowest cases, which allows me to show how much time was needed at the least and on average for one procedure. This data is useful to answer the question of how quick the information flow was. Regarding the fourth part, my aim is to introduce the staff of administrative literacy at Arad in the period between 1229 and 1342. Although sources are sufficient to present the credible staff who were sent to one or more delegations, they are less suitable for collecting other members of the staff: we know of no more than three lectors and one notary, that is to say four people altogether. Further research should work on the development of a more comprehensive list of staff by revealing the staff of all the medieval loca credibilia (cathedral and collegiate chapels).
Az aradi prépostság javadalmasai a Mátyás-korban, 2019
In this paper, my main aim is to present the status of the canons of the provostry of Arad
as muc... more In this paper, my main aim is to present the status of the canons of the provostry of Arad
as much as it is possible on the basis of primary sources during the reign of King Matthias
between 1458 and 1490. Naturally, I rely on original sources, mainly charters. First of all,
I make efforts to present the tendencies regarding the work of canons’ carriers in Arad.
Secondly, I discuss the social background more precisely, the socio-economic status of
clerics. Hopefully, this study will be able to give an accurate picture of the structure of
dignitaries as well as add some important details one those people who possessed these
stalls. After the highlighted clerics, I present the canons who had the simple stalls, and
finally, I examine the priests of the choir. In the last part of my work, the social backgrounds
will be presented by separate analyses of the different groups of ecclesiastical society
specifying the proportions of each group within the whole.
In: Mesterek és Tanítványok 2. Tanulmányok a bölcsészet- és társadalomtudományok területéről. Szerk. Czeferner Dóra, Bőhm Gábor, Fedeles Tamás. Pécs 2018. 147-164., Jul 30, 2018
Provosts of the Medieval Episcopal See of Arad
In this paper, I would like to add some new infor... more Provosts of the Medieval Episcopal See of Arad
In this paper, I would like to add some new information and supplements to the ecclesiastical history of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Although it is of great importance to discover all members of the ecclesiastical society, and many remarkable research works have been conducted on the topic, a fully comprehensive investigation, research on the whole subject-matter has not been published yet, including the middle-layer of ecclesiastical society (e.g. canons) as well as the lower clergy. In case of this subject, basic research on members of the church elite is not enough, the analysis of every other group is crucial as well. In this frame, episcopal sees have a key position – beyond the research of their history and background, their sociographical analysis, based on the database of canons, is essential. I expect from my results to add some relevant information to the medieval Hungarian society. At the same time, my paper presents a piece of research that employs the prosopographical methodology established by József Köblös and perfected by Tamás Fedeles. Keywords: Arad, chapter, prosopography, sociography, medieval church, Medieval Hungary
Szemelvények 4. Válogatás a PTE BTK XXXIII. Országos Tudományos Diákköri Konferencián (2017) I–III. helyezést elért hallgatóinak pályaműveiből. Szerkesztette: Böhm Gábor - Czeferner Dóra - Fedeles Tamás. Pécs, 2017., 2017
In the text, I analyzed the history and the personal content of the aradian provostry, the period... more In the text, I analyzed the history and the personal content of the aradian provostry, the period of the analyzing was the era of King Sigismund. I used original sources, so I browsed about 300 charters for the research. First of all, I had concluded the research history of this provostry then in the second part I developed all along the history of the institute to the end of the era of King Sigismund, the changes and the properties of the canonical status. In the third part I analyzed the prebends and who have this in this period, so I browse the dignitaries, the office-holder and who have the other prebends, at last the other clerics of the chorus. The last part I assayed the ancestry of the prebends. The paper aim was desire to do available the aradian canons for the research and the results adopt to the Hungarian chapter research knowledge base. I’m planning the analyze improve to the era of the Hunyadian’s and Jagellonian’s.
Hungaro-Polonica. Young Scholars on Medieval Polish-Hungarian Relations. Pécs, 2016, 315-326., 2016
Books by István Kovács
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Thesaurus Historiae Ecclesiasticae in Universitate Quinqueecclesiensi 10., 2019
1) Prokopp, Mária: King Matthias Corvinus and Johannes (Vitéz) of Zredna Archbishop of Esztergom,... more 1) Prokopp, Mária: King Matthias Corvinus and Johannes (Vitéz) of Zredna Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary
2) Fedeles, Tamás: The Diplomatic Representation of the Kingdom of Hungary to the Holy See during the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
3) Tusor, Péter: Cardinal Protectorate of Hungary in the Age of King Matthias Corvinus and the Jagiellonian Period
4) Kristóf, Ilona: The Career of Gabriele Rangone (1410/20–1486)
5) Haraszti Szabó, Péter: The Influence of University Studies to Career Paths of Hungarian Vicars in the Beginning of the Hunyadi Period
6) Horváth, Terézia: The provosts of the Vasvár Chapter During the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
7) Kovács, István: The Members of the Collegiate Chapter of Arad during
in the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
8) Karlinszky, Balázs: Background and Mobility in the Veszprém Cathedral Chapter between 1448 and 1526
9) Buják, Gábor: Johannes Stock and the Privileges of the Church of Szepes
10) F. Romhányi, Beatrix: The Ways of the Reform. Reforms of the Religious Orders in Late Medieval Hungary (1445–1505)
11) Buzás, Gergely: Ecclesiastical building of King Matthias
by Kiss Gergely, Specimina Nova Pars Prima Sectio Mediaevalis, Péter Báling, Gábor Barabás, Daniel Bagi, Tamás Bélfenyéri, Ferenc Végh, István Kovács, Judit Csákó, Tamás Péderi, and Illés Horváth PREFACE
After the previous two volumes in the VIIIth issue of the Specimina Nova Pars Prima Sect... more PREFACE
After the previous two volumes in the VIIIth issue of the Specimina Nova Pars Prima Sectio Mediaevalis we go back to the beginnings. As opposed to the volumes based on the materials of different conferences, the present issue consists of the studies of the researchers of the Department of the History of Medieval and Early Modern Times, Institute of History, University of Pécs. It is a pleasure that among the authors there is a PhD student of our department as a sign of promising supply of young historians, and furthermore we can also publish our respected German colleague’s study, who have been to Pécs on research trips and conferences several times in addition to the scientific cooperations.
As compared to the previous issues there is a new feature, namely the workshop section. Here we can read about the ongoing projects of our department besides two short reports given about the researches and their results by our Croatian scientific partner Marko Jerković, a researcher of the Center of Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb.
In the section of the book review researchers and students of our institute and a PhD student from Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania) provide reviews about Hungarian works connected to our department and also German and English works considered interesting. The present issue gives also a short database with pictures of the publications related to our institution since 1998 (Related Publications) and the table of contents of the previous issues as well.
Pécs, December 2015
The Editors
Talks by István Kovács
Edited Books by István Kovács
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Papers by István Kovács
as much as it is possible on the basis of primary sources during the reign of King Matthias
between 1458 and 1490. Naturally, I rely on original sources, mainly charters. First of all,
I make efforts to present the tendencies regarding the work of canons’ carriers in Arad.
Secondly, I discuss the social background more precisely, the socio-economic status of
clerics. Hopefully, this study will be able to give an accurate picture of the structure of
dignitaries as well as add some important details one those people who possessed these
stalls. After the highlighted clerics, I present the canons who had the simple stalls, and
finally, I examine the priests of the choir. In the last part of my work, the social backgrounds
will be presented by separate analyses of the different groups of ecclesiastical society
specifying the proportions of each group within the whole.
In this paper, I would like to add some new information and supplements to the ecclesiastical history of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Although it is of great importance to discover all members of the ecclesiastical society, and many remarkable research works have been conducted on the topic, a fully comprehensive investigation, research on the whole subject-matter has not been published yet, including the middle-layer of ecclesiastical society (e.g. canons) as well as the lower clergy. In case of this subject, basic research on members of the church elite is not enough, the analysis of every other group is crucial as well. In this frame, episcopal sees have a key position – beyond the research of their history and background, their sociographical analysis, based on the database of canons, is essential. I expect from my results to add some relevant information to the medieval Hungarian society. At the same time, my paper presents a piece of research that employs the prosopographical methodology established by József Köblös and perfected by Tamás Fedeles. Keywords: Arad, chapter, prosopography, sociography, medieval church, Medieval Hungary
Books by István Kovács
2) Fedeles, Tamás: The Diplomatic Representation of the Kingdom of Hungary to the Holy See during the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
3) Tusor, Péter: Cardinal Protectorate of Hungary in the Age of King Matthias Corvinus and the Jagiellonian Period
4) Kristóf, Ilona: The Career of Gabriele Rangone (1410/20–1486)
5) Haraszti Szabó, Péter: The Influence of University Studies to Career Paths of Hungarian Vicars in the Beginning of the Hunyadi Period
6) Horváth, Terézia: The provosts of the Vasvár Chapter During the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
7) Kovács, István: The Members of the Collegiate Chapter of Arad during
in the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
8) Karlinszky, Balázs: Background and Mobility in the Veszprém Cathedral Chapter between 1448 and 1526
9) Buják, Gábor: Johannes Stock and the Privileges of the Church of Szepes
10) F. Romhányi, Beatrix: The Ways of the Reform. Reforms of the Religious Orders in Late Medieval Hungary (1445–1505)
11) Buzás, Gergely: Ecclesiastical building of King Matthias
After the previous two volumes in the VIIIth issue of the Specimina Nova Pars Prima Sectio Mediaevalis we go back to the beginnings. As opposed to the volumes based on the materials of different conferences, the present issue consists of the studies of the researchers of the Department of the History of Medieval and Early Modern Times, Institute of History, University of Pécs. It is a pleasure that among the authors there is a PhD student of our department as a sign of promising supply of young historians, and furthermore we can also publish our respected German colleague’s study, who have been to Pécs on research trips and conferences several times in addition to the scientific cooperations.
As compared to the previous issues there is a new feature, namely the workshop section. Here we can read about the ongoing projects of our department besides two short reports given about the researches and their results by our Croatian scientific partner Marko Jerković, a researcher of the Center of Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb.
In the section of the book review researchers and students of our institute and a PhD student from Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania) provide reviews about Hungarian works connected to our department and also German and English works considered interesting. The present issue gives also a short database with pictures of the publications related to our institution since 1998 (Related Publications) and the table of contents of the previous issues as well.
Pécs, December 2015
The Editors
Talks by István Kovács
Edited Books by István Kovács
as much as it is possible on the basis of primary sources during the reign of King Matthias
between 1458 and 1490. Naturally, I rely on original sources, mainly charters. First of all,
I make efforts to present the tendencies regarding the work of canons’ carriers in Arad.
Secondly, I discuss the social background more precisely, the socio-economic status of
clerics. Hopefully, this study will be able to give an accurate picture of the structure of
dignitaries as well as add some important details one those people who possessed these
stalls. After the highlighted clerics, I present the canons who had the simple stalls, and
finally, I examine the priests of the choir. In the last part of my work, the social backgrounds
will be presented by separate analyses of the different groups of ecclesiastical society
specifying the proportions of each group within the whole.
In this paper, I would like to add some new information and supplements to the ecclesiastical history of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Although it is of great importance to discover all members of the ecclesiastical society, and many remarkable research works have been conducted on the topic, a fully comprehensive investigation, research on the whole subject-matter has not been published yet, including the middle-layer of ecclesiastical society (e.g. canons) as well as the lower clergy. In case of this subject, basic research on members of the church elite is not enough, the analysis of every other group is crucial as well. In this frame, episcopal sees have a key position – beyond the research of their history and background, their sociographical analysis, based on the database of canons, is essential. I expect from my results to add some relevant information to the medieval Hungarian society. At the same time, my paper presents a piece of research that employs the prosopographical methodology established by József Köblös and perfected by Tamás Fedeles. Keywords: Arad, chapter, prosopography, sociography, medieval church, Medieval Hungary
2) Fedeles, Tamás: The Diplomatic Representation of the Kingdom of Hungary to the Holy See during the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
3) Tusor, Péter: Cardinal Protectorate of Hungary in the Age of King Matthias Corvinus and the Jagiellonian Period
4) Kristóf, Ilona: The Career of Gabriele Rangone (1410/20–1486)
5) Haraszti Szabó, Péter: The Influence of University Studies to Career Paths of Hungarian Vicars in the Beginning of the Hunyadi Period
6) Horváth, Terézia: The provosts of the Vasvár Chapter During the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
7) Kovács, István: The Members of the Collegiate Chapter of Arad during
in the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus
8) Karlinszky, Balázs: Background and Mobility in the Veszprém Cathedral Chapter between 1448 and 1526
9) Buják, Gábor: Johannes Stock and the Privileges of the Church of Szepes
10) F. Romhányi, Beatrix: The Ways of the Reform. Reforms of the Religious Orders in Late Medieval Hungary (1445–1505)
11) Buzás, Gergely: Ecclesiastical building of King Matthias
After the previous two volumes in the VIIIth issue of the Specimina Nova Pars Prima Sectio Mediaevalis we go back to the beginnings. As opposed to the volumes based on the materials of different conferences, the present issue consists of the studies of the researchers of the Department of the History of Medieval and Early Modern Times, Institute of History, University of Pécs. It is a pleasure that among the authors there is a PhD student of our department as a sign of promising supply of young historians, and furthermore we can also publish our respected German colleague’s study, who have been to Pécs on research trips and conferences several times in addition to the scientific cooperations.
As compared to the previous issues there is a new feature, namely the workshop section. Here we can read about the ongoing projects of our department besides two short reports given about the researches and their results by our Croatian scientific partner Marko Jerković, a researcher of the Center of Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb.
In the section of the book review researchers and students of our institute and a PhD student from Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania) provide reviews about Hungarian works connected to our department and also German and English works considered interesting. The present issue gives also a short database with pictures of the publications related to our institution since 1998 (Related Publications) and the table of contents of the previous issues as well.
Pécs, December 2015
The Editors