Hungarians And Europe In The Early Middle Ages
An Introduction to Early Hungarian History
by András
Róna-Tas
"It would be hard to find another scholarly work
in which so many disciplines are employed, from linguistics
to archaeology, religious studies to numismatics, and
so on... the digestion of a lifetime's research..."
- English Historical Review
"This is a major work which synthesizes a vast
range of scholarship, including the author`s own research
over four decades into the ethnography of central Asian
peoples and historical linguistics. Róna-Tas
handles new material expertly, as he does more traditional
source material." - The Dalhousie Review
"The author, whose erudition is formidable, has
spent his life mastering the ancient and modern inner
European languages essential for unraveling the mysteries
of his subject." - Austrian History Yearbook
"Various studies of the Hungarian scholars are
hardly accessible to foreign readers because are written
in Hungarian. The author summarized the results of most
of them into a comprehensive reference book." -
The Medieval Review
"The text reads like a finely polished lecture,
but it is dense with linguistic, archaeological, and
historical minutiae while carefully avoiding the use
of later Hungarian mythology about the origins of the
Magyars or their movement west." - Choice
András Róna-Tas is Professor of Altaic Studies and
Early Hungarian History at József Attila University,
Szeged, Hungary and has published over 300 papers, monographs
and reviews. In 1996 he received the prestigious German
science award, the Humboldt Prize.
Lavishly illustrated, the book contains seventy five
historical maps and colour plates which visualize the
historical background of Hungary and introduces its
early history to a broader readership. The early history
of Hungarians is embedded into the history of Eurasia
and special attention is given to the relationship of
the Hungarians with the Khazars and the Bulghar-Turks.
The first part deals with methods and sources which
can be used for elucidating the ancient history of the
Hungarians, relying on research into linguistics, archaeology,
anthropology and natural history. The second part traces
how the Hungarians came into the Carpathian Basin and
answers such questions as: who are the Magyars, from
where did they come and how did they conquer the land?
It reconstructs and examines their early political and
social structure, the economy, and religion, and compares
the Hungarian medieval process with the ethnogenetic
processes of the Germanic, Slavic and Turkic people.
Contents
Preface. Part I: Introduction Part II: The sources
Part III: The relatives Part IV: The neighbours
Part V: Eurasia in the 9th and 10th centuries
Part VI: The names of the Magyars before the foundation
of the state Part VII: Urheimats and migration
Part VIII: The conquest Part IX: The Magyars
in the Carpathian Basin Part X: The integration
of the Magyars within Europe Part XI: Summary
overview RECENT RESEARCH Part XII: Overview of
the study of ancient Hungarian history Part XIII:
The Levedi question and the earliest Hungarian chronicle
Part XIV: Historical traditions Part XV: The
East Magyars, the Bashkirian tribal names and Yugria
Part XVI: The Székely Runiform script Appendices
1999
500 pages
ISBN 978-963-9116-48-1 cloth $64.95 / €54.95 / £39.95
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