C. Tóth Norbert: Az esztergomi székeskáptalan a 15. században, I. rész. A kanonoki testület és az egyetemjárás - Subsidia ad historiam medii aevi Hungariae inquirendam 7. (Budapest, 2015)
A felhasznált irodalom és forráskiadványok, valamint a rövidítések jegyzéke
The Cathedral Chapter of Esztergom in the Fifteenth Century 1st Part The Canonical Body and University Studies In the ranking order of ecclesiastical corporations of the Hungarian Kingdom in the medieval and early modern periods the leading place was no doubt occupied by the (arch)cathedral chapter of Esztergom. Thanks to its elevated status, the history, structure and functioning of the chapter have attracted considerable scholarly attention for quite a long time. Nándor Knauz and Vilmos Fraknói in the second half of the nineteenth century, Ferenc Kollányi in the beginning of the twentieth century and László Solymosi in its last decades, published basic source collections with regard to the history of both the archbishopric and the chapter, as well as analytical works based on these, among them a database containing the personnel of the chapter itself. Although the broad outlines of the historical picture formed about the cathedral chapter are still decisively influenced by these works, one of the major components of this picture, namely the database of Ferenc Kollányi (Kollányi F.: Kanonokok), is far from unproblematic. In the course of an examination of the registers of the earliest known canonical visitation of the cathedral chapter of Esztergom, traditionally assigned to the year 1397 (Kollányi E: Visitatio), I soon realised that neither their correct date could be established nor their content accurately analysed without a trustworthy archontology of the canonical body. As all scholars before me, I turned for help to the work which contains the names of the canons of Esztergom and the periods of their benefice-holding there, and which was shaped into its present form by Ferenc Kollányi. Yet recourse to this work only revealed that, precisely because one of its main sources was the canonica visitatio itself, it offered no help for the solution of the problem I faced. The author's handling of the sources fell short of the standards already of his own time, and he even proved unable to respect the rules he had himself established. Consequently, the only possible way to lay down solid foundations for the analysis of the visitation registers remained that of preparing the archontology of the canons of Esztergom in the late middle ages. In preparing the archontology extremely valuable help was provided by those five letters of attorney which, issued in the 1450s, have come down to us as part of the private archives of the chapter. In the first chapter of the book I have examined this group of sources from various perspectives. The analysis
