Ekaterini Mitsiou
ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Byzanzforschung der ÖAW
Mihailo POPOVIC
ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Byzanzforschung der ÖAW
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Byzanzforschung der ÖAW
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ISBN 978-3-7001-6685-6 Print Edition
ISBN 978-3-7001-7028-0 Online Edition
Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368–1437), king of
Hungary, Roman German king and finally emperor of
the Holy Roman Empire, is not only a prominent figure
of the late Middle Ages in “Catholic” Western Europe;
always close were also his contacts with the “Orthodox
World” in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. These
contacts did not only include his crusade against
the Ottomans, which failed at Nicopolis in 1396, but
continued until the end of his reign. Particularly
intensive were of course his relations with the two
Orthodox Danubian principalities of Moldavia and
Wallachia, and with the Orthodox Christians living
within the Kingdom of Hungary in Transylvania in large
numbers. The studies combined in this volume try
to illuminate this aspect of the activity of Sigismund,
his diplomatic, military and church-political efforts
to achieve unity, both between Eastern and Western
Church and within the Western Church, and to
organise the defense against the Ottoman expansion.
Some contributions also show that Sigismund’s
efforts arose the attention of his Byzantine
contemporaries who mention him in various sources.
Because of this interdisciplinary view from east to
west and vice versa, the volume is of interest both for
medieval studies directed at Western Europe as well
as at Eastern Europe.
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