ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU VOL. 11 2005 Central European University Budapest ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU VOL. 11 2005 Edited by Katalin Szende and Judith A. Rasson 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 János M. Bak, Gerhard Jaritz, Gábor Klaniczay, József Laszlovszky, Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis, István Perczel, Marianne Sághy Editors Katalin Szende and Judith A. Rasson Cover illustration Saint Sophia with Her Daughters from the Spiš region, ca. 1480–1490. Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery. Photo: Mihály Borsos 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://medstud.ceu.hu Copies can be ordered in the Department, and from the CEU Press http://www.ceupress.com/Order.html 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 Editors’ Preface ............................................................................................................. 5 I. ARTICLES AND STUDIES ......................................................................... 7 Magdolna Szilágyi Late Roman Bullae and Amulet Capsules in Pannonia ..................................... 9 Trpimir Vedriš Communities in Conflict: the Rivalry between the Cults of Sts. Anastasia and Chrysogonus in Medieval Zadar ....................................................................... 29 Nadezhda Miladinova Pseudo-Dionysian Excerpts in an Unstudied Manuscript of Panoplia Dogmatike (The Iviron Manuscript) .............................................................. 49 Zsuzsanna Kiséry Revisiting the Secretum: Linearity and Circularity in Petrarch’s Dialogue ...... 61 András Németh Learning and Preaching in Central Europe: The Evidence of a Late Medieval Rhyming Decalogue ....................................... 77 Ana Maria Gruia Saint Ladislas on Stove Tiles ........................................................................... 97 Judit Sebő A Holy Matron and Her Daughters: Saint Sophia in Late Medieval Hungary ........................................................ 121 Luba Hédlová National Art Histories: Whose “Beautiful Style”? ......................................... 145 Guest Article ......................................................................................................... 165 Valery Rees Transformation and Self-fashioning: Matthias Corvinus and the Myth of Hercules .................................................. 167 Nomads at the Frontiers of Christian Europe .................................... 187 Balázs Nagy Nomadic Peoples Revisited................................................................................ 189 Ian Blanchard Cultural and Economic Activities in the Nomadic Societies of the Trans-Pontine Steppe ............................................................................ 191 Teodora Krumova Pecheneg Chieftains in the Byzantine Administration in the Theme of Paristrion in the Eleventh Century ......................................... 207 Alexandar Nikolov Cumani Bellatores in the Second Bulgarian State (1186–1396) ................. 223 Zsuzsanna Papp Tartars on the Frontiers of Europe: The English Perspective ........................... 231 II. REPORT OF THE YEAR ....................................................................... 247 Report of the Year – József Laszlovszky ......................................................... 249 MA Thesis Abstracts ....................................................................................... 259 PhD Defences during the Academic Year 2003–2004 ............................... 273 Index to Volumes 1–10 (1993–1994 to 2004) of the Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU – Compiled by Petra Mutlová .. 299 EDITORS’ PREFACE Lectori salutem! Volume 11 of our Annual presents some of the results of the academic year 2003–2004, when the Department of Medieval Studies entered the second decade of its existence. As usual, the first section contains articles based on MA theses or papers presented by our students at major international conferences. This year’s thematic block arose from a series of sessions on Nomads at the Frontier of Christian Europe arranged by our faculty as part of the 2004 special thematic strand Clashes of Cultures at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. For the second time after Jonathan Shepard’s contribution, published last year, the collection of studies is enriched by a guest article, this time by Valery Rees, a scholar of Renaissance literature and art. Part II of the yearbook follows the patterns from last year concerning the limited number of issues presented here. This does not mean a restriction in the variety of its contents, however, since the abstracts of no less than 14 newly defended PhD dissertations cover almost all fields of medieval studies. For information on recent and forthcoming events as well as on publications, students, and alumni, please consult our newsletter, the Medieval News, and our refreshed and extended website (http://medstud.ceu.hu). At the end of this volume, we have included an index of articles and other matierals published in the Annuals during the last ten years. As another technical innovation, from the previous volume (Vol. 10) onwards, we also publish the Annual on CD-ROM, with better search possibilities and less demand for shelf-space than the printed version. We would also like to call our readers’ attention to the intense publication activity of our department, which is reflected by the growing number of volumes in the CEU Medievalia series. More information on this is to be found on the last pages of this volume. As usual, the editors were helped in the most demanding tasks of copy- editing by a competent and enthusiastic group of PhD students, which included this year Ágnes Flóra, Lovro Kunčević, Jurgita Kunsmanaitė, Petra Mutlová, András Németh, and Eszter Spät. Beside them, we would also like to thank our constant partners in the department’s publishing activity, the Archaeolingua Foundation and Publishing House, for turning the manuscripts into a handsome publication. PART I. Articles and Studies LATE ROMAN BULLAE AND AMULET CAPSULES IN PANNONIA1 Magdolna Szilágyi Introduction In Classical Latin sources the term bulla indicates any object of round or globular shape, from the knobs on a piece of furniture through the buttons of a belt to lockets worn around the neck.2 On the etymology of bullae Isidore of Seville says: Dictae autem …bullae, quod sint similes rotunditate bullis, quae in aqua vento inflantur.3 Amulet capules called bullae in Classical texts are therefore necessarily of globular shape. Because globular and tubular amulet capsules had similar functions and use, both are referred to as bullae in the archaeological literature. In the present paper I will discuss globular and tubular amulet capsules separately. I will apply the term bulla only to denote globular amulet capsules, while by the term amulet capsule I mean the tubular pieces. In 1732 Francesco Ficoroni completed his dissertation entitled La bolla d’oro de fanciulli nobili romani e quella de libertini.4 Based on written sources Ficoroni, and many philologists after him, defined the bulla as a gold pendant that Roman boys of noble birth wore on a necklace. This definition has become a topos by now which requires rectification at some points in the light of recent archae- ological investigations. Hans Goette has recently investigated and reinterpreted 1 This article is a shortened and revised version of my MA thesis, “The Meaning and Use of Bullae in Late Classical Pannonia in their Imperial Context,” (Central European University, 2004). The catalogue of bullae and amulet capsules from the thesis has been published elsewhere: Magdolna Szilágyi, “Késő császárkori bullák és amulettkapszulák az Aquincumi Múzeumban” (Bullae and tubular amulet capsules in the Aquincum Museum), Budapest Régiségei 38 (2004): 313–333. 2 Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Vol. 2, s.v. “bulla,” 2241–2242; Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclo- pädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (henceforth PWRE) Vol. 5, s.v. “bulla,” 1047– 1051; Ch. Daremberg, and Edm. Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquités Greques et Romaines (henceforth: Daremberg-Saglio) Vol. 1, s.v. “bulla,” 754–755. 3 Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis Episcopus, Etymologiae in Patrologiae cursus completus, series latina 82, ed. Jacques-Paul Migne, 592–610 (Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1844–; Turnhout: Brepols, 1990), 19.31.11. 4 Franceso Ficoroni, La bolla d’oro de fanciulli nobili romani e quella de libertini (Rome: Stamperia di Antonio de’ Rossi, 1732). 9 Magdolna Szilágyi the use of bullae through a close analysis of more than one hundred statues and reliefs.5 His survey was based on Western European collections; therefore, his achievements can only be adopted indirectly for Pannonia. Fig. 1. Sites in Transdanubia where Roman bullae and amulet capsules have been discovered