Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2004. Vol. 4. Eger Journal of English Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 30)

MATTHEW PALMER The English Cathedral: Prom Description to Analysis

84 Matthew Palmer released and his career was allowed to continue and blossom. Makrai was to accompany Sigismund to Paris and England in 1416, a journey during which Sigismund made a point of visiting Makrai's former university. Makrai was to become Gubernátor of Eger Cathedral shortly before his death in either 1421 or 1427.

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0 In 1411, Lőrinc Tari, cupbearer to the Queen and local magnate, left his residence in Heves County to make a pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory in the middle of Lough Derg in Ireland. It was an experience which caused him to promise to build a church dedicated to his patron saint St Nicholas, suggested by some to be the chapel added onto the southern side of the parish church in Pásztó, also dedicated to St Nicholas.

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1 These two episodes tell us how close Hungary and the Brithis Isles were during the Middle Ages. While Hungary and England may not have sealed any dynastic marriages, and architectural ideas were shared through common sources rather than direct influence, the fact that they shared a common western Christian civilisation suggests it would be wrong to avoid Hungary's cultural heritage when analysing England's. Rirthermore, by using primary rather than secondary sources students may indeed be better placed to decide for themselves how English Gothic Art really is. 4

0 Fraknói V., "Nyomozások egy középkori magyar tudós élet-viszontságainak földerítésére", Századok, 1894, pp. 387-395; Mályusz E., Kaiser Sigismund in Ungarn 13871437 (Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1990), pp, 292-3. 4

1 Kropf L., "Pászthói Rátholdi Lőrincz zarándoklása. 1411", Századok 30, 1896, p. 724; Gr agger, R., "Beitráge zur Visionenliteratur im Mittelalter" Ungarische Jahrbücher, 1925, pp. 309. The less than flattering visions Lőrinz had of Sigismund and his wife Barbara of Cilly in the purgatory are also said to have prompted the king to build the church of Saint Sigismund in Buda, just outside the walls of his palace.