THE ARTIFACT

The most intriguing artifact in the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós is the golden round tray for baptism. More on my critique of the dating...

There is a very interesting collection at the Museum in Vienna called the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklos. It contains various objects of...

There are surprisingly quite a few Romanian names in the DAI. The highest ranking person with that name was mentioned in the chapter "50....

There are quite a few toponyms that are familiar to a modern reader. In this blog post I am listing them with the source text for future...

I am currently reading the English translation of the famous De Administrando Imperio (DAI) and I am surprised to find in it the first...

The former capital city of Transylvania is located somewhat in the middle of it. It is called Alba Iulia, but used to be known also as...

The importance of a Roman legacy of roads, and ruins in the formation of the early medieval states in Europe can be reflected also in the...

Nicolaus Olahus was born to Stefan Olahus, first cousin of Matthias Corvinus, and Borbala Hinsar in Hermanstadt (Sibiu) on January 10,...

The text lists for the very first time in any official Chancellery documents the Feudal organization of Southern Transylvania and...

I have found a host of bizarre inconsistencies related to the interpretation of events pertaining to the First invasion of the ...

I believe that Andrew II of Hungary had by mistake opened two wholes in the Eastern natural defence of Transylvania that invited in the...

There are some very interesting chronicles from the East that shed some light onto the campaigns of the two Mongol generals. That...

There has never been a greater topic in the history of the old Romanian Culture than that of the beginning of writing in that language...

Matthias Corvinus was arguably the most important Monarch of the 15th century Europe. It was for his extraordinary merits that the...