https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2016.12.17
The article is a review of an edition of an account book bearing reference number 21 from the Royal Accounts ensemble held at the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw. The edition, compiled by Czech researcher Petr Kozák and Hungarian historian Krisztina Rábai, documents the composition of the court of the prince and then King Sigismund I Jagiellon between 1493 and 1510. It includes 329 pages and contains named lists of 168 so-called mounted courtiers and other court functionaries. Notes in Latin inform about the date of admission to service, the number of horses, the amount and dates of payment of the so-called "digest," and changes in the number of posts. The introduction preceding the edited source, written in Czech and English, includes an analysis of the manuscript's political context and physical characteristics. The editors kept footnotes to a minimum, dispensing with personal and factual explanations, which the reviewer considers a significant shortcoming. Also missing is a deeper identification of localities and terms appearing in the source. Despite the formal imperfections, the publication is valuable for researchers of the Jagiellonian era, showing the personal composition of Sigismund Jagiellon's court and the daily mechanisms of its functioning. The initiative taken by foreign researchers is part of a growing interest in monarchical accounting as a basis for research into the power elites of late medieval Central Europe.
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Vol. 8 (2016)
Published: 2016-12-31
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