Povijesni prilozi, Vol. 41 No. 62, 2022.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22586/pp.v41i62.18231
In confinibus Turcorum: The Men of Matthias Corvinus’s Regime in the Late Fifteenth-Century Hungarian-Ottoman Borderlands
Davor Salihović
orcid.org/0000-0003-4252-2977
; Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
Abstract
The paper discusses the backgrounds and careers of several lesser-known officials who occupied various positions along the Hungarian-Ottoman frontier during the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (r. 1458-1490). By examining their biographies and their place within the ruling elite of Corvinus’s Hungary, the study moreover elucidates how changes in King Matthias’s authority in the borderlands were reflected in the changes in his personnel policies, showing that the king gradually gained more control over his southern lands through a growing network of loyal retainers. The latter, moreover, successfully replaced the vestiges of older regimes – whose representatives often stood in opposition to royal politics – thus allowing the introduction of greater royal control.
Keywords
Matthias Corvinus; medieval Hungary; medieval Slavonia; medieval Bosnia; medieval Croatia; Ottoman Empire; frontier; administration; Peter Szobi; Ladislaus Disznósi; John Viszlai; Ambrose Török; Ladislaus Mark Terjéni; Paul Sándor; Peter Dóci; Ladislaus Ficsor Csulai
Hrčak ID:
280886
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2022.
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