Emperor Sigismund and the Orthodox World

edited by Ekaterini Mitsiou, Mihailo Popovic, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Alexandru Simon

Image coming soon

Extent: 158 pages

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse

Series volume number: 410

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2010)

ISBN: 9783700166856

Price: $76.00

Out of stock

Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368-1437), king of Hungary, Roman German king and finally emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, is not only a prominent figure of the late Middle Ages in Catholic Western Europe; always close were also his contacts with the Orthodox World in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. These contacts did not only include his crusade against the Ottomans, which failed at Nicopolis in 1396, but continued until the end of his reign. Particularly intensive were of course his relations with the two Orthodox Danubian principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, and with the Orthodox Christians living within the Kingdom of Hungary in Transylvania in large numbers. The studies combined in this volume try to illuminate this aspect of the activity of Sigismund, his diplomatic, military and church-political efforts to achieve unity, both between Eastern and Western Church and within the Western Church, and to organise the defense against the Ottoman expansion. Some contributions also show that Sigismund’s efforts arose the attention of his Byzantine contemporaries who mention him in various sources. Because of this interdisciplinary view from east to west and vice versa, the volume is of interest both for medieval studies directed at Western Europe as well as at Eastern Europe.

  • Edited by Ekaterini Mitsiou
  • Edited by Mihailo Popovic
  • Edited by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
  • Edited by Alexandru Simon