U srijedu 20. 12. 2023. u 19 sati u maloj svečanoj dvorani 39 održat će se gostujuće predavanje dr. sc. Gábora Barabása sa Sveučilišta u Pečuhu, s temom “Duke Coloman, a King in Slavonia” (Herceg Koloman, Kralj Slavonije), predavanje će biti na engleskom jeziku.
Gábor Barabás (1983) is associate professor at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History at the Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Hungary. He received his PhD in Medieval History at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany, in 2013. He fulfilled his habilitation at his home university in 2021. Barabás is the author of a number of essays on medieval Church history and Árpád-era Hungary. His major monograph concerns the relations of the Apostolic See and Hungary in the early thirteenth century: Das Papsttum und Ungarn in der ersten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1198 – ca. 1241) (Wien: Institut für Ungarische Geschichtsforschung, 2014). Coloman, King of Galicia and Duke of Slavonia (1208–1241): Medieval Central Europe and Hungarian Power, a monograph co-written with Professor Márta Font (University of Pécs) on the life of the Hungarian royal prince, Coloman, appeared in 2019 in the series Beyond Medieval Europe with ARC Humanities/ Amsterdam University Press. His last English monograph was published in 2023, it is a compilation of his studies published in the past decade (Popes, Rulers and their Delegates: Chapters of Papal–Hungarian Relations in the Thirteenth Century. Pécs, 2023. Thesaurus Historiae Ecclesiasticae in Universitate Quinqueecclesiensi 13.)
Gábor Barabás
Duke Coloman, a King in Slavonia
The presentation deals with a quite extraordinary member of the Árpádian dynasty, Prince Coloman (1208–1241), who around the age of seven was crowned king of Galicia with a crown sent by Pope Innocent III. His “reign” in this principality of the Rus’ did not last long; he was forced to escape back to Hungary around 1221. In the Hungarian realm he eventually became duke of Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia a few years later in 1226. Coloman, the second son of the Hungarian monarch, Andrew II kept his royal title while governing the provinces entrusted to him, a phenomenon quite uncommon in Hungarian history. The king and duke of whole Slavonia, as he titled himself, was involved in various cases. Apart from internal matters, like probably the most important one, namely the planned union of the bishopric of Zagreb with the archbishopric of Split, he also tried to intervene in Bosnia dealing with the so-called heresy there, while his real valour was shown during the Mongol invasion of 1241–42. He fought in the battle of Muhi, he was even able to escape the massacre, but soon afterwards he died of his wounds. Despite Coloman’s relatively short life, his person is quite interesting, among other things, because of the controversial usage of the titles of rex et dux totius Sclavonie and the interpretations regarding it.
