A középkori német nyelvű historiográfia magyarságképéről egy imagológiai kutatás nyomán (1150–1534)
The Image of Hungarians in Medieval German Historiography from an Imagological Perspective (1150–1534)

Summary/Abstract: This study presents the conclusions of research conducted in the field of the Hungarian image in medieval German-language historiography (universal, provincial/regional, monastic/abbatic and city chronicles). The texts were selected along two criteria: the use of vernacular on one hand, and chronological and geographical parametres on the other. The earliest source examined is the Regensburg Kaiserchronik (c. 1150), the latest is Hans von Haug zum Freystein’s Hungern Chronica (1534). The study aims to explore the image of Hungarians, shaped by the contacts between the two peoples and subsequently integrated into sources, as well as its manifestations in available materials. The methodology is based on imagology, focusing on those ‘images’ of nations and peoples, which are contained in texts either explicitly or implicitly, and which have the capacity to become the means to typify those. This methodology entailed the survey and collection of ‘imagotypical’ elements concerning Hungarians in the selected texts, which was followed by the descriptive phase of research, whereby these elements were organised and analysed thematically. Adapting Reinhart Koselleck’s theory of ‘assymetrically contrary conceptual pairs’, the analysis of the imagotypical elements of these texts revealed three assymetric and mutually opposing pairs: Western–Eastern, Christian–Pagan, and moral–amoral.

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