Anonymus and Master Roger / / ed. by Martyn Rady, János M. Bak, László Veszprémy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• HerausgeberIn: Bak, János M.,; Rady, Martyn,; Veszprémy, László,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Central European Medieval Texts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Contains two very different narratives; both are for the first time presented in an updated Latin text with an annotated English translation.An anonymous notary of King Bela of Hungary wrote a Latin Gesta Hungarorum (ca. 1200/10), a literary composition about the mythical origins of the Hungarians and their conquest of the Carpathian Basin. Anonymus tried to (re)construct the events and protagonists—including ethnic groups—of several centuries before from the names of places, rivers, and mountains of his time, assuming that these retained the memory of times past. One of his major "inventions" was the inclusion of Attila the Hun into the Hungarian royal genealogy, a feature later developed into the myth of Hun-Hungarian continuity.The Epistle to the Sorrowful Lament upon the Destruction of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Tartars of Master Roger includes an eyewitness account of the Mongol invasion in 1241–2, beginning with an analysis of the political conditions under King Bela IV and ending with the king's return to the devastated country.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- General Editors’ Preface -- Abbreviations -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- First page of the Gesta Hungarorum (OSZK Clmae 403, fol. 1v) -- Introduction -- Gesta Hungarorum -- The Deeds of the Hungarians -- Epistola in miserabile carmen super destructione regni hungarie per tartaros facta -- Epistle to the sorrowful lament upon the destruction of the kingdom of Hungary by the Tatars -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Names of Persons, Kindreds, and Peoples -- Index of Geographical Names -- Gazetteers of Geographical Names -- The movements of the Mongol troops are approximate -- Map of Hungary with Anonymus’ toponyms