MARRËDHËNIET KULTURORE NDËRMJET HUNGARISË DHE SHQIPËRISË MESJETARE
CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE HUNGARIAN-ALBANIAN RELATIONS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

Summary/Abstract: Cultural aspects of the Hungarian-Albanian relations during the Middle Ages appear to be relatively poor. This lack of cultural contacts among others was conditioned by the fact that these relations developed in condition of war and as the primary objective had the mutual protection from attacks by the Ottoman Empire. In addition, limitations of mutual cultural relations is explained also with the fact that these two countries were geographically distant to each other and that the medieval Albanian culture in essence was a Mediterranean culture, meanwhile the Hungarian culture belonged to the area of Central Europe. But, despite these unfavourable conditions, still opportunities for co-operation and mutual impact were found. Hungary as medieval political and cultural power of the Central Europe made efforts to receive influence from the Mediterranean culture, respectively from the renaissance and for this occasion, more accessible were humanists from territories of Eastern Mediterranean of Adriatic and particularly from Dubrovnik where many Albanian humanists had earlier migrated. The strength of the impact of culture from Ragusa humanists in the Hungarian culture facilitated the fact that this city was included in this Kingdom since 1358, further facilitating the cultural co-operation.

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