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ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU AT STUDIES MEDIEVAL OF ANNUAL 26 2020 VOL. The Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, more than any comparable annual, accomplishes the two-fold task of simultaneously publishing important scholarship and informing the wider community of the ANNUAL breadth of intellectual activities of the Department of Medieval Studies. And what a breadth it is: Across the years, to the core focus OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES on medieval Central Europe have been added the entire range from AT CEU Late Antiquity till the Early Modern Period, the intellectual history of the Eastern Mediterranean, Asian history, and cultural heritage studies. I look forward each summer to receiving my copy. vol. 26 2020 Patrick J. Geary Central European University Department of Medieval Studies Budapest Volumes of the Annual are available online at: http://www.library.ceu.hu/ams/ ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU VOL. 26 2020 Central European University Budapest ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU VOL. 26 2020 Edited by Ildikó Csepregi and Kyra Lyublyanovics Central European University Budapest Department of Medieval Studies All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the publisher. Editorial Board Gerhard Jaritz, György Geréby, Gábor Klaniczay, József Laszlovszky, Katalin Szende, Daniel Ziemann Editors Ildikó Csepregi, Kyra Lyublyanovics Proofreading Karen Stark Cover illustration The Mongol invasion in Hungary as depicted in the Chronica Hungarorum by Johannes de Thurocz (1488) Department of Medieval Studies Central European University H-1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9., Hungary Postal address: H-1245 Budapest 5, P.O. Box 1082 E-mail: [email protected] Net: http://medievalstudies.ceu.edu Copies can be ordered at the Department, and from Archaeolingua http://www.archaeolingua.hu Volumes of the Annual are available online at: http://www.library.ceu.edu/ams/ ISSN 1219-0616 Non-discrimination policy: CEU does not discriminate on the basis of – including, but not limited to – race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. © Central European University Produced by Archaeolingua Foundation & Publishing House TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ............................................................................................................ 7 I. FROM BUDAPEST TO VIENNA ........................................................... 9 Gábor Klaniczay What Happened to CEU between 2017 and 2019? ............................. 11 II. ARTICLES AND STUDIES .................................................................. 15 Holger Hespen The Filial Piety of the Hoopoe – An Argument for the Egyptian Origin of the Greek Physiologus ..................................................................... 17 Anastasia Theologou Galen and Plotinus: On the Principle of Sympatheia ............................ 31 Mariana Bodnaruk The Production of Ideology: Honorific Statuary for Senatorial Aristocracy in the Age of Tetrarchy (293–324) ...................................................... 45 David Rockwell The Protection of Innocents in Augustine’s Laws of War ......................... 58 John Kee The Locus Amoenus and the Wilderness: Landscape in Kekaumenos and the Grottaferrata Digenes Akrites ................................................. 67 Gustavo Montagna von Zeschau On the Right Side of War, on the Sacred Side of History. Representations of Episcopal Military Actions in Medieval Lotharingia ......................... 81 María Paula Rey The Vocabulary of Empire: Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Dominions .............................................................. 101 Roman Tymoshevskyi The Discourse of Kingship in John Gower’s Mirrors of Princes .............. 121 Benjámin Borbás Falcons in Service of the Teutonic Order at the Turn of the Fourteenth-fifteenth Century ............................................................. 133 Grabiela Rojas Molina Space: A Proposal for the Interpretation of Albanenses in Shkodra’s Medieval City Statute ....................................................................... 150 Jason Snider A Military Analysis of the Iron Gates Castle Chain Entrusted to the Teutonic Order (1429–c. 1436) ............................................... 161 Ditta Szemere The Observant Reform of the Fifteenth Century in Italian and Hungarian Mendicant Nunneries ...................................................... 177 Ivona Vargek Pleasure or Necessity? Zagreb Baths in the Middle Ages ........................ 194 Krisztina Péter Image, Print, and Manuscript in Early Modern Cologne ..................... 206 III. FROM THE WORKSHOP ................................................................. 221 János B. Szabó – József Laszlovszky – Balázs Nagy – Dorottya Uhrin The Mongol Invasion of Hungary (1241–42) and its Eurasian Context .......................................................................... 223 Marianna D. Birnbaum Presentation of the Volume Times of Upheaval ..................................... 234 Past Perfect: Five Years of Interviews with CEU Medieval Radio ........... 240 IV. JÁNOS M. BAK .................................................................................... 245 Gábor Klaniczay Obituary .......................................................................................... 246 V. REPORT ON THE YEAR ..................................................................... 249 Katalin Szende Report of the Academic Year 2018–19 ................................................ 251 Gábor Klaniczay Reflections on the Past, the Present and the Future of the Department ............................................................................. 260 Abstracts of MA Theses Defended in 2019 ........................................... 265 PhD Defenses During the Academic Year 2018–2019 .......................... 280 6 PREFACE Lectori salutem! The CEU Medieval Studies Department is happy to share Volume 26 of its Annual. The contents cover activities and events of the academic year 2018–2019 – which, in retrospect, seems like “the last year before the transition.” At the very end of the editorial process came the sad news that one of the founders of our Department, Professor Emeritus János M. Bak, passed away – which makes it even more clear that this is the end of an era. This period was extraordinary from many points of view. CEU has undergone profound changes. As the law known as Lex CEU introduced a new regulation for the operation of foreign universities in Hungary, CEU was forced to abandon its long-time home in Budapest and continue its operation in Vienna, Austria. Although certain elements of the university’s organisation of institutions remain in Budapest, the vivid and diverse student community and the professors will disappear. This is even more regrettable from the department’s point of view, as our Central European location enabled us to operate also in historical terms, between Latin and Orthodox (Byzantine and Slavic) Christianity, and between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean region. Even as a Vienna-based department, we will try to maintain various Budapest-based resources and scholarly contacts, such as the ELTE-CEU research library, research projects and fellowships related to MECERN, as well as cooperation with Hungarian medievalists at ELTE, and at other academic institutions; on the other hand, we are certain that building a slightly different CEU in Vienna will facilitate new opportunities for scholarly research, a fresh student experience, and a growth in terms of academic network. It is no surprise in the light of the above that the structure of this volume is a little uncommon. Instead of the usual first block of articles and studies, the first chapter includes a piece by department head Gábor Klaniczay on the present and future of the university itself. The articles based on successful MA theses completed by students in the one- year Medieval Studies program and in the joint two-year program of the Medieval Studies and History departments are presented in the second block. The times and places addressed range widely from the second to the sixteenth century, from Egypt to Wales, Lotharingia and Zagreb, and cover topics such as the origin of the Greek Physiologus, Augustine’s Laws of War, falcons in service of the Teutonic Order, the observant reform of the fifteenth century in Mendicant nunneries, or Zagreb baths in the Middle Ages. Preface The block titled “From the Workshop” presents pieces authored by department members on related scholarly achievements. The project “The Mongol Invasion of Hungary (1241–42) and its Eurasian Context”, led by scholars from various Hungarian institutions, focuses on the thirteenth-century expansion of the Mongol Empire and its impact in its Eurasian context. Marianna Birnbaum, professor emerita at UCLA and visiting professor at our Department from its inception, presents in her paper the volume “Times of Upheaval”, a strongly CEU-related volume containing conversations with outstanding medievalists Jerzy Kłoczowski, František Šmahel, Herwig Wolfram, and János M. Bak, conducted by their former students or younger colleagues Walter Pohl, Pawel Kras, Pavlína Rychterová, and Gábor Klaniczay. At the end of the block a publication that grew out of a departmental student