Nobility, land and service in medieval Hungary
By: Martyn Rady.
Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe; Studies in Russia and East Europe (Palgrave (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave, in association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Nobility -- Hungary -- History -- To 1500.; Feudalism -- Hungary -- History -- To 1500.; Hungary -- History -- 1000-1699.
Description: "Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary is the first western-language account of medieval landholding and noble society in Hungary. Rady indicates that, although all noble land was held of the ruler, a complex web of relationships still permeated the Hungarian nobility. Among the institutions which the author discusses are clientage, office-holding and military retaining, the noble kindred and county community, the settlement of disputes, law-finding, record-keeping and inquisitions.

Rady challenges the view that Hungarian noble society was qualitatively different from its western counterparts. Such differences as existed were ones of degree rather than kind. Moreover, Rady indicates that the medieval Hungarian nobility was never as numerous as is usually maintained. Rady's account extends from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries and includes studies of noble society in Slavonia, the Slovak Highlands and Transylvania."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.