TABLE OF CONTENTS LASZLO SOLYOM: Preface 13 ISTVAN HILLER: Foreword 15 PETER FARBAKY: Introduction 17 STUDIES t KUBINYI: Courtiers and Court Life in the Time of Matthias Corvinus 21 RADU LUPESCU: Matthias Hunyadi: from the Family Origins to the Threshold of Power 35 RICHARD HOVATH: The Warring King: the Itinerary of Matthias Corvinus 51 ANTONIN KALOUS: Bohemians and Moravians in the Court of Matthias Corvinus 65 BOGUSLAW CZECHOWICZ-MATEUSZ KAPUSTKA: Hope and Pragmatism. The Rule and Visual Representation of Matthias Corvinus in Silesia and Lusatia 77 KAROLY MAGYAR: Towards a Reconstruction of Matthias-Era Residences 89 ROBERT SUCKALE: The Central European Connections of Matthias Corvinus' Patronage of Late Gothic Art 101 ERNO MAROSI: Matthias Corvinus, the Medieval Man. Gothic and Renaissance 113 FRANCESCO CAGLIOTI: Gregorio di Lorenzo of Florence, Sculptor to Matthias Corvinus 129 KLARA PAJORIN: The First Humanists at Matthias Corvinus' Court, the Early Inspirers of Flaunting Wealth and Power 139 DANIEL POCS: Urbino, Florence, Buda. Models and Parallels in the Development of the Royal Library 147 CATALOGUE I. The Rise of the Hunyadi Family 164 ENIKO CSUKOVITS: The Legacy of Sigismund of Luxembourg 165 RADU LUPESCU: Vajdahunyad Castle 168 II. Matthias Corvinus' Way to the Throne 190 RADU LUPESCU: The Election and Coronation of King Matthias 191 III. Between East and West 204 BALAZS NAGY: The Political Face of Central Europe in the Time of Matthias Corvinus 205 IV. Matthias—Ideal and Reality 214 ENIKO BEKES: Matthias Corvinus' Iconography 215 EDIT SZENTESI: Some Portraits of Matthias Corvinus of the Wiener Neustadt Type 217 HEINZ WINTER: Matthias Corvinus and the Art of the Medal 220 SZILARD PAPP: Heraldic Relics of the Reign of Matthias Corvinus in Upper Lusatia and Silesia 222 V. A Neapolitan Princess in Pannonia 246 ORSOLYA RETHELYI: King Matthias on the Marriage Market 247 ARPAD MIKO: Queen Beatrice of Aragon 251 VI. Potentates around the King 266 Biographies 267 TAMAS PALOSFALVI: Mihaly Orszag of Gut . 267 TAMAS PALOSFALVI: Miklos Ujlaki 267 RICHARD HORVATH: Istvan Baton of Ecsed 268 RICHARD HORVATH: Imre Szapolyai 269 RICHARD HORVATH: Pal Kinizsi 270 RICHARD HORVATH: Tamas Bakocz of Erdod 272 VII. Golden Florin—Silver Denar 282 ISTVAN DRASKOCZY: King Matthias' Revenue and the Royal Treasury 283 MARTON GYONGYOSSY: King Matthias' Mint—the Great Monetary Reform 285 VIII. The Warring Matthias—Court in Camp 294 TAMAS PALOSFALVI: King Matthias' Army 295 JANOS B. SZABO: The Pavise, Infantry Shield of Matthias Corvinus' Army 298 IX. Gothic and Renaissance Residences 312 PETER FARBAKY: Chimenti Camicia, the Florentine Woodworker—architect of Matthias and his Role in the Royal Building Works in Buda 313 ANDRAS VEGH: Renaissance Red Marble Carvings in Royal Palace of Buda 317 SZILARP PAPP: Late Gothic Vault Fragments from the Royal Palace of Buda 320 GERGELY BUZAS: The Royal Palace of Visegrad in the Time of King Matthias 324 ORSOLYA MESZAROS-MATYAS SZOKE: The Fifteenth-Century Glass Workshop in Visegrad 345 KAROLY BELENYESY: Remains of a Royal Gun Foundry in Buda from the Turn of the Fifteenth Century .... 348 ESZTER KovAcs: Maiolica Ceramics from Buda—the Buda Maiolica Workshop 351 GABRIELLA FENYES: Maiolica Floor Tiles from Buda Palace 354 JUDIT BENDA: Lostice Cups in Hungary 375 KATALIN SZENDE: "Proud Vienna suffered sore..." Matthias Corvinus and Vienna, 1457-1490 381 X. Protected by Patrona Hungariae 392 KORNEL SZOVAK: King and Church, Matthias Corvinus and Religion 393 TEREZIA KERNY: Veneration of St Ladislas and the Hungarian Saints in the Court of Matthias Corvinus. Personal Devotion, State and Monarchic Representation 397 IMRE KAPISZTRAN VARGA O.F.M.: King Matthias and the Observant Franciscans 401 GABOR SARBAK: King Matthias and the Pauline Order 405 SZILARD PAPP: The Ecclesiastical Buildings of Matthias Corvinus 408 XI. Books and Stones—Relics of all'antica Patronage 450 JOHANNES ROLL: Giovanni Dalmata (1440/45-after 1514) 451 ARPAD MIKO: Bibliotheca Corvina 468 XII. The Humanist Court—The Court Humanists 494 XHI. The Renewal of Historiography 502 ISTVAN TRINGLI: The Transformation of Historiography in the Time of Matthias Corvinus 503 XTV. Heralds of Antiquity—the Corvinus Legend 512 ENIKO SPEKNER: "...to be judged worthy of your illustrious father and to rule over the Hungarians..." Matthias' Struggle for John Corvinus' Succession 513 XV. Fight for Matthias Corvinus' Heritage 524 ENIKO SPEKNER: The End of Matthias Corvinus' Dynastic Ambitions. Contenders for the Throne 525 APPENDIX 538 The family tree of the Hunyadis 540 A chronology of the reign of Matthias Corvinus 541 Bibliography (Sources and literature) 544 Index of persons and place names 597 Sources of photographs 608 io.