The Transylvanian Wallachians and Their Kings

A Medieval and Modern Case Study

By (author) Alexandru Simon

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Based on the study of a peculiar Wallachian estate of the kings of Hungary in Transylvania, the book represents the first analysis in an international language of Greek rite ecclesiastical structures and political actions in the eastern parts of the Latin rite Kingdom of Hungary at the end of the Middle Ages. Primarily devoted to often neglected or marginalised medieval information, the analysis also focuses on the ways in which 19th and 20th century confessional and national policies tailored the still extant medieval sources.

Rulers by the Grace of God, the Churches of Their Subjects, and Their Historians


CHAPTER 1. The Past, Present and Future of Pre-1918
Transylvania and Her Churches: On the Scholarly Impact of Augustin Bunea
and His Contemporaries

“Parrish” and “Priest” 

I. Modern Conflicts and Allegiances, and Their “Medieval Roots” 

II. Visions of the – Nationally (?) – Desired Ecclesiastical Past(s)

III. 1910 and 1911 as Failed Romanian Turning-Points in the Study of Medieval Churches 

Crowning Revolutions in a Reformed Ecumenical Society


CHAPTER 2. The Protectors of a Royal Hungarian Estate and of a Greek Rite Archbishopric in Transylvania

Matthias Corvinus and the Greek Rite Churches in the Kingdom of Hungary

I. The Royal Estate and the Greek Rite Archbishopric

II. The Roman and Hungarian Ecclesiastical “Wallachian Experiment” in Transylvania in 1436

III. The Greek Rite Moldavian ‘Athlete’ of the Papacy in Transylvania

A Fading Episcopal Family Affair at the Dawn of the Reformation

CHAPTER 3. In the Royal Hungarian Lands of the
“Archbishop ‘of Southern Severin’ in Transylvania” and of the
“Professors of the Greek Faith” in the North



Ecclesiastical and Political Expansions after the Peace of Bratislava (1491) 

I. Two “Weaklings”, John Corvinus and Władysław II Jagiello, the Mighty Prelate, Thomas Bakócz, and the Greek Rite Churches

II. A Hunyadi-Corvinus Version of the Árpádian Past in 1498 and Its Pragmatic Background

III. The Grand Designs of Maximilian I of Habsburg, Bogdan III of Moldavia, and Chancellor Isaac, in 1513

An Invented Partition of Transylvania and the graffito of an Archpriest 


CHAPTER 4. Greek Rite Wallachians and Their Churches in
Medieval Transylvania between Buda, Rome, the High Porte and the Great
Church 

The Hierarchs in Medieval Transylvania and Their Monarchs 

I. Wallachia, Moldavia and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Berats of the Ottoman Sultans During the Crusades from the Second Half of the 15th Century

II. The Metropolitanates of Belgrade and Severin and the Bishoprics of Buzău and Râmnic in the Records of the High Porte and of the “Captive” Great Church before the Battle of Mohács 

III. The Ambitions and the Legacies of Iω Iancu Voivode, “the Bastard” of Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg and “the Descendant” of Lord Mircea I the Elder Transylvania “in the Middle”

Wallachians on the Jagiellonian-Habsburg Road from Hunyadi to Szapolyai


Selected Bibliography 

   I. Sources  

   II. Historiography  
Index 

  • By (author) Alexandru Simon