WĘGRZY JAKO PARS ALIQUA GENTIS MASSAGETUM. ŚLADY PÓŹNOANTYCZNEJ I WCZESNOŚREDNIOWIECZNEJ UCZONOŚCI W DZIELE TOMASZA ARCHIDIAKONA SPLITU. Część 1. POSTRZEGANIE WĘGRÓW WE WCZESNYM ŚREDNIOWIECZU Z PERSPEKTYWY ZASTOSOWANYCH W ŹRÓDŁACH OKREŚLEŃ
HUNGARY AS PARS ALIQUA GENTIS MASSAGETUM. TRACES OF LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WORK OF TOMASZ THE ARCHDIACON OF SPLIT. Part 1. THE PERCEPTION OF HUNGARY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TERMS USED IN THE SOURCES

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of an isolated view in the medieval historiography of the Latin cultural circle, the identification of Magyars as Massagetae. Operating within the established practice of their age, the litterati tried to determine the role played by emerging ethnic groups by applying methods based on principles of etymology and analogy. Thus they identified names of those ethnic units with the ethnonyms known to them from the Bible and ancient literature. In dealing with emerging ethnic units, earlier unknown, they followed the principle of the variability of names of the attested ethnic units. This principle was applied to Hungarians credited with emerging from Scythia and referred to in medieval sources as a gens ignota / exter(n)a. The identification of Hungarians with earlier known ethnic units was strengthened by terms used to describe them as barbari, pagani, infideles.

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