A kun püspökségtől a firenzei unióig, avagy a domonkos misszió változó keretei
From the Cuman Bishopric to the Union of Florence, or the Changing Framework of the Dominican Mission

Summary/Abstract: The Dominican Order was founded in the early thirteenth century to convert to Catholicism the schismatic Orthodox and heretics, as well as non-Christian peoples living on the frontiers of the Christian world. From this point of view, the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, situated on the frontier of Western Christianity, proved to be an ideal setting, as it had contacts to all three target groups. Although the number of sources is very limited, it is possible to outline in broad terms the involvement of the Hungarian Dominicans in missionary enterprises outside Latin Christianity. From that point of view, the thirteenth century, especially the first half of it, when Hungarian friars went as far as the Urals foreland, was clearly the ‘golden age’, in which the enthusiasm of the first generations played a role. However, the Dominicans in Hungary found their long-term mission in the area reaching from Bosnia to Moldavia, an area of great political importance for the Kingdom of Hungary, and they fulfilled it under changing circumstances until the end of the Middle Ages.

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