Katona István: A kalocsai érseki egyház története II. (Kalocsa, 2003)

follows História critica, mainly publishing sources and commenting them. The first volume contains the geographic description of the territory of the archbishopric (9-16), than represents the history of peoples populating this diocese before the Hungarians (17-39). This is followed by the representation of monasteries (abbacies, provostships) that existed in the territory of the archdiocese (44-52). After that Katona gives the records of the parishes of the Kalocsa archdiocese in year 1800, showing also the ethnic conditions of the population (52-77). It is followed by the biographies of bishops and archbishops of the Kalocsa (and that of Bács that he dealt with separately) church (78296). Volume I ends with the Battle of Mohács (1526) that brought to end the existence of the Medieval Hungarian state. In this battle Pál Tomori (1523-1526) the most known archbishop of Kalocsa of the Hungarian history lost his life as the chief commander of the Hungarian troops. The volume is concluded by the list of abbreviations used at least twice in the notes (297-303). Volume II contains the biographies of the archbishops after 1526 ending with the life of László Kollonich. In the age of the Turkish rule in Hungary (1541-1686) archbishops, naturally, did not live in Kalocsa, the title was owned by certain bishops of Kingdom of Hungary ruled by the Habsburgs. Here Katona represented their biographies and not the history of the diocese occupied by Turks. The most useful part (from our point of view) of his work shows the activity of archbishops moving back to the territory between the Danube and Tisza rivers. These archbishops, beside their church organising activity, took a great role in the resettlement of this part of the country liberated from the Turks (7 - 252). Volume II is concluded by the biographies of priests presented to the Kalocsa archdiocese after moving back of the archbishops, and that of the canons presented after the refoundation of the Metropolitan Chapter (253 - 305). The last part is the Appendix to the first volume (306 - 310). At the end of the volume we find the list of abbreviations of the works mentioned at least twice (311317). The whole volume is concluded by Addenda et Corrigenda (318-319) enclosed to the material of volume I and the index of names of volumes I—II (321 - 369). Both volumes are supplemented with illustrations, and volume II contains also the map of the Medieval Archbishopric of Kalocsa designed by Gábor Thoroczkay and drawn by Béla Nagy, the cartographer of the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Katona's work was translated from Latin to Hungarian back in the 1960s by József Takács (1901-1975), teacher of Latin and history of the Kalocsa Secondary School. At the request of Imre Romsics, the director of Viski Károly Museum (Kalocsa) in the late 1990s Gábor Thoroczkay, medievalist historian, assistant professor of the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Hungarian History of the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) started to correct the translation, to make the additional notes and the foreword. Volume I was edited and published by Imre Romsics in the summer of 2001. The correction of volume II, its additional notes were made by Gergely Tóth, scholar of the early modern Hungarian history, fellow worker of the National Széchényi Library (Budapest). Volume II edited by Imre Romsics and Gábor Thoroczkay is going to be published in the summer of 2003. More than 2500 footnotes attached to Katona's work contain the data of re-edited sources used by him, throw light to the historical problems discussed not fully enough by Katona and correct historical events, facts represented by 372