Miklós Kásler - Zoltán Szentirmay (szerk.): Identifying the Árpád Dynasty Skeletons Interred in the Matthias Church. Applying data from historical, archaeological, anthropological, radiological, morphological, radiocarbon dating and genetic research (Budapest, 2021)

Foreword

history of their own family, because runic writing existed to record all of this. Nor did I understand why the Hungarian Conquest was completed without any bloodshed, without any major battles fought. I did not understand why the most important battle in Hungarian history, the Battle of Pozsony

ensuring

our survival, is taught as part of the curriculum at the military academies in West Point and Saint - Cyr and not in Hungarian primary schools, nor did I understand why we learn only about the Battle of Merseburg and Augsburg from the at least 48 sieges and battles fought during the “expeditions”. I did not understand why the Frankish Empire did not attack the Carpathian Basin and spread Christianity after the Battle of Lechfeld. This is what Otto did to every defeated country and people if his victory was really decisive, since in that era, the power vacuum, if any, was filled by the victorious power as a rule.

I did not understand what it meant according to the Greater Legend of Hartvic that the title of apostolic king was conferred on Saint István

(known

in English as Saint Stephen) by the successor of Saint Peter, whereas the Pope himself remained apostolic. I did not understand exactly why the offer made by Saint István

was

necessary. The offer is not about the Virgin Mary being Patrona

Hungáriáé,

but

about her being Regina Hungáriáé,

i.e.

Queen of Heaven, and also, or by virtue of this, Queen of Hungary. I viewed the evolution of the concept of the Holy Crown as mystical; it was something barely heard of. I did not understand why we do not talk about the concept of the Holy Crown, the essence of which is the unprecedented linkage forged between the spiritual and the earthly world, the proportion of the division of power, unknown in the period, and the ideological foundation of the special Hungarian development of law.

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