The economy of medieval Hungary

Product Description
The Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first concise, English-language volume on the economic life of medieval Hungary, covering the structures of economic life, human-nature interactions in production, taxation, money and commerce.
Review
''The present volume provides a general introduction to the economic history of medieval Hungary. It serves as starting point for further investigations focused on more specific issues of economic history in general''. - Peter Bučko, in:
The Czech Historical Review, 3 (2019).
"The book's perspective is panoramic, multidimensional, and precise[...] a gold mine of knowledge, lucidly presented, about the economic life of the Kingdom of Hungary. It fully merits the status of obligatory reading, for medieval historians in general--including, but also well beyond, those specializing in this subject. In addition, the book contains a trove of evidence useful for a comparative history of the economy of the medieval world". Grzegorz Myśliwski, in:
Speculum, 95, 3 (2020).
"This is why this large book, edited by József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Péter Szabó nd András Vadas, is important, for it offers a guide to what is actually taken for granted by Hungarian scholars; it is, finally, a way into the economic history of the whole period between c.900, with the Magyar invasion, and 1526, with the defeat of Louis II in battle against the Ottomans. [...] You cannot do without this book if you want to know about the economy of (particularly late medieval) central Europe as a whole." Chris Wickham in
English Historical Review, CXXXV. 573, April 2020 (doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa013).
"...ova knjiga predstavlja a must read za sve povjesničare i amatere povijesti koji se bave nekim od aspekata bilo gospodarske povijesti, bilo ekohistorije ili pak historijske geografije ove regije u srednjemu vijeku." (...this book is a must-read for all historians, all those who are interested in history and who deal with some aspects of economic, ecological history or historical geography of this region in the Middle Ages.) Petra Vručina in
Povijesni prilozi 57:159-162.

"Der anzuzeigende Band stellt die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung der Wirtschaftsgeschichte des mittelalter lichen Königreichs Ungarn in englischer Sprache dar. Das Werk ist ein hochwillkommener Überblick für Studierende und Forscherinnen, die des Ungarischen nicht mächtig sind. Sein Verdienst geht jedoch weit darüber hinaus. Die Hrsg. haben 30 Spezialist*innen unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen versammelt(neben der mittelalterlichen Geschichte sind Archäologie, Archäozoologie, Demografie, Hydrologie und Numismatik sowie verschiedene historische Teildisziplinen wie die Umwelt und Klimageschichte vertreten). Das Ergebnis dieser interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit überzeugt durchweg". Alexandra Kaar, in
Journal of East Central European Studies 69 (3), 2020.

About the Author
József Laszlovszky is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, and director of its Cultural Heritage Program. His research interests are monastic archaeology, preservation of cultural heritage as well as English–Hungarian relations in the Middle Ages.

Balázs Nagy is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and visiting faculty member at the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. His main research interests are medieval economic and urban history.

Péter Szabó is Deputy Head at the Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. His main research interests are historical ecology and environmental history.

András Vadas is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research interests are environmental, economic and urban history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period.