
ABSTRACTS 199
ity, Hungarians, earlier known only from military con icts, developed increas-
ingly complex ties with Western European regions. is brought about abetter
ow of information, which had asigni cant impact on the increasing preci-
sion (and decreasing generalisation) of Western chroniclers about the history of
Hungarians from the eleventh century onwards. 3. Inmedieval Western histo-
riography, con icts between Western Christian communities were simpli ed to
struggles between one warring party ghting for universal truth and the enemy
of these universal values. Inthese cases, the descriptions were in uenced by the
political agenda of the chroniclers, rather than the contemporary image of Hun-
garians (if there was one at all). e materials examined in both parts of this
study have one thing in common: Hungarians, most often mentioned as the
enemy in the context of military events even after 1000, are described in anega-
tive tone in the majority of the texts examined.
Radek, Tünde: e Image of Hungarians in Medieval German
Historiography from an Imagological Perspective (1150–1534)
is study presents the conclusions of research conducted in the eld of the
Hungarian image in medieval German-language historiography (universal, pro-
vincial/regional, monastic/abbatic and city chronicles). e texts were selec-
ted along two criteria: the use of vernacular on one hand, and chronological
and geographical parametres on the other. e earliest source examined is the
Regensburg Kaiserchronik (c. 1150), the latest is Hans von Haug zum Freystein’s
Hungern Chronica (1534). e study aims to explore the image of Hungarians,
shaped by the contacts between the two peoples and subsequently integrated
into sources, as well as its manifestations in available materials. e methodo-
logy is based on imagology, focusing on those ‘images’ of nations and peoples,
which are contained in texts either explicitly or implicitly, and which have the
capacity to become the means to typify those. is methodology entailed the
survey and collection of ‘imagotypical’ elements concerning Hungarians in the
selected texts, which was followed by the descriptive phase of research, whereby
these elements were organised and analysed thematically. Adapting Reinhart
Koselleck’s theory of ‘assymetrically contrary conceptual pairs’, the analysis of
the imagotypical elements of these texts revealed three assymetric and mutually
opposing pairs: Western–Eastern, Christian–Pagan, and moral–amoral.
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