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of Strabo, Pliny, Solinus and Ptolemy, as well as Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies,

were de nitive sources of medieval geographical knowledge to such an extent

that it is impossible to fully appreciate it and avoid misinterpretation without an

understanding of these antique authorities.

Although in the  fteenth and sixteenth century the library of classical geog-

raphy was indispensable for erudite literates, they were keen to complement

their readings with practical knowledge.  is practical knowledge corresponds

to the examples of legatine reports.  e information contained in the writings of

contemporaneous historians, travellers, and legates is perhaps not dissimilar to

the actual information and knowledge of late medieval literati.

Körmendi, Tamás:  e Representation of Hungarians

in Western European Narrative Sources until the End

of the  irteenth Century

This study aims to review the process in Western Christian historiography,

whereby Hungarians turned from apagan tribe, often described by models used

for Huns and Avars before them, into amember of the Christian fold. Inaddi-

tion, the study explores those characteristics which di erentiated the Hungar-

ians from other Christian peoples in Western historiography between the ninth

and thirteenth centuries. Since the medieval European world view essentially

divided peoples into Christian and pagan, the representation of Hungarians in

Western sources dramatically changed after their successful conversion to West-

ern Christianity. Tore ect this change, the study is divided into two parts.  e

 rst part explores the characteristics of the representations of ninth and tenth-

century pagan Hungarians.  e second part focuses on sources about Chris-

tian Hungarians between the eleventh and thirteenth century. Inthe former, the

complete body of sources is analysed. However, in the latter, the analysis of the

entire body of materials regarding the period after the foundation of the state

is not possible due to the large amount of surviving sources, and thus only the

main trends are demonstrated.

The sources about pagan Hungarians use the commonplaces describing

Huns and Avars in annals and chronicles written centuries before: they empha-

sise the savage and cruel ways of Hungarians, and at most their skills of warcraft.

 is is not surprising considering the crippling damages that the raiding Hun-

garians caused in the Western population and church.  e sources mentioning

Christian Hungarians contain signi cantly fewer generalising references, which

are explained by three causes in this study. 1. Inmedieval Western historiog-

raphy, peoples of Latin Christendom were considered to belong in the same

community, and are characterised exactly by this common affiliation alone,

without adding further distinguishing details. 2. After converting to Christian-

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