Csécs Teréz: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 52. (Győr, 2017)

Szende László: Adalékok Rómer Flóris középkorra vonatkozó munkásságához

ARRABONA 2014. 52

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO FLÓRIS RÓMER’S WORK RELATING TO THE MIDDLE AGES

This study aims at surveying Flóris Rómer’s researches relating to the Middle Ages in Hungary. Römer was engaged in paleographic, diplomatic and codicological studies already in his school years. He was instructed by excellent teachers in Bakonybél and Pannonhalma. His notes reveal his interest in archontology and itineraries and he even copied medieval deeds. His first studies concerned the Middle Ages; one of them described László Czudar, Benedictine Abbot's tombstone. During his wanderings throughout the country he was mindful of the medieval relics. One exciting object of this kind was a corpus from the Árpádian Age that he penciled in József Sárközy's collection and which has got lost since then. He also made important contribution to the field of the Hungarian goldsmith art; he studied the objects in an analytical, systematic way and formulated precise terminological definitions. He played a decisive role in the field of Corvina studies and it is due to him that this area soon reached an international level. He fathomed the sigillographic problems clearly and described several valuable pieces. In his book, titled Old Murals in Hungary that was published in 1874, he did pioneering work in the systematic study of the Hungarian Medieval murals. He was also interested in city historical researches: he mainly studied the history of Pest, but he also cleared up several topographic problems of the Buda Castle. While staying in Nagyvárad he registered the monuments of Bihar County and started to excavate the basilica of Nagyvárad.

László Szende