Megjegyzések Horváth Richárd „A magyar középkorkutatás hiányzó segédkönyvei – Hunyadi Mátyás uralkodói itineráriumának példáján” címû tanulmányához
Remarks on Richárd Horváth’s Study Entitled „Missing Supplementary Books in the Research of the Medieval Hungarian History – Quoting Matthias Hunyadi

Summary/Abstract: Itineraries offer indispensable help to the historian. Of course, no work will ever be complete, yet it should also be kept in mind that it is much easier to attach one more data to several thousand than the other way round. Itineraries, while answering a number of questions, leave others unanswered. These should be dealt with not by the maker of the itinerary, but by the historian who uses the work for the solution of a historical problem. In fact, all itineraries have an inherent problem: when a ruler is shown by the sources to have stayed durably at a given place, does this necessarily mean that he did not leave it at all during his stay there? In the present study I use a source with the help of which the Italian itinerary of Sigismund, Holy Roman emperor and King of Hungary, can be refined. The account books (Camera dei Conti) preserved in the Archivio di Stato di Torino, give not only the expenses of the count-duke of Savoy during his travels, but also inform upon the persons who accompanied him and the places they went to. They show that a protracted sojourn at a given locality does not mean automatically that Sigismund did not leave it occasionally, even if it is left unmentioned by the charters. Still on the basis of the source mentioned above, I have been able to describe more exactly the events of those days which the emperor spent in Savoy.

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