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Chronica: Annual of the Institute of History. ISSN 1588 2039 Published by the Institute of History University of Szeged 2. Egyetem u. H-6722 Szeged Hungary e-mail: chronica@primus.arts.u-szeged.hu http//primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/chronica (Front-page: The coat of arms of the University of Szeged) Printed in Hungary, on acid-free paper by Innovariant Nyomdaipari Ltd., Szeged-Algyo Copyright © 2017, by the authors and editors

Chronica: Annual of the Institute of History.

ISSN 1588 2039
Published by the Institute of History
University of Szeged
2. Egyetem u.
H-6722 Szeged
Hungary
e-mail: chronica@primus.arts.u-szeged.hu
http//primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/chronica
(Front-page: The coat of arms of the University of Szeged)
Printed in Hungary, on acid-free paper
by Innovariant Nyomdaipari Ltd., Szeged-Algyo
Copyright © 2017, by the authors and editors

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CHRONICA ANNUAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED HUNGARY Editors: Sándor Gyarmati, Zsolt Hunyadi, Tamás Kovács Editorial Board: Koszta László f, Tibor Almási, László J. Nagy, Enikő Sajti, Sándor Csernus, László Marjanucz Articles appearing in the CHRONICA are abstracted in HISTORICAL ABSTRACT AND AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE Contents Articles Ta m á s Ko v á c s Some remarks on Anonymus Valensianus' Pars Posterior............................. 5 Péter Ba r a Philotheos of Opsikion: A New Saint in Twelfth-Century Thessalonike? .... 17 Gá b o r Ba r a b á s The Titles of the Hungarian Royal Family in the Light of Hungarian and Papal Sources in the First Half of the 13th Century.......................................... 28 Zs o l t Hu n y a d i The Western Schism and Hungary: from Louis I to Sigismund of Luxembourg............................................................................................................ 45 László Gálffy Structures locales et établissements ecclésiastiques dans la conception d'Henri Pirenne concernant la reprise urbaine du Xe au XIIe siècles ........................................................................................... 54 En ik ő A. Sa jt i Magyars and Serbs: the 'Southlands' 1941-1945............................................... 62 Ge o r g in a N a g y La naissance des états dans le territoire Maghrébin «la guerre des sables» entre le Maroc et l'Algérie..................................................................................... 78 Theses Sza bo lc s Felföldi Life along the Late Antique and Early Medieval Silk Road. Niya of the 3rd and 4th centuries in the light of archaeological finds and written sources...................................................................................... 87 L e v e n t e Ig a z Estados beligerantes en la Peninsula Ibérica y la cuenca de los Cárpatos entre los siglos IX-XIII. Los elementos comparables de dos caminos de medieval história militar de Europa.................................................................... 91 S z i l v ia Ko v á c s History of the Cumans to the Mongol invasion................................................ 99 Mik l ó s Ha l m á g y i Die Fragen der Identität und Fremdheitsvorstellungen aufgrund der gewählten Autoren der ersten Jahrtausendwende.................. 105 Pét er Sz il á g y i The Libyan monarchy from the independence until the nationalist revolution, 1951-1969......................................................... 118 T i b o r Sz ő c s A history of the palatinal institution in the Árpádian Age and in the first half of the Angevin Period (1000-1342).................................. 124 K r i s z t in a Rá b a i Charters of the Angevin Period Vol. XL (1356).................................................. 133 Review Szabolcs Polgár New Research on the Prehistory of the Hungarians........................ ................... 141 Some remarks on Anonymus Valesianus’ Pars Posterior Tamás Kovács The work of the Anonymous Valesianus, known as "Pars Posterior," is a debated issue of historiography for more than one hundred years, all the more so as both the identity of the author and the circumstances of the compilation of the work are obscure. The opus of Anonymous is, however, unavoidable while studying the Ostrogothic rule in Italy since it reveals several elements which cannot be found in contemporary sources. The decades since the publication of the first scholarly monograph witnessed an abundance of studies which attempted to answer the questions concerning the "Pars Posterior," to identify the author as well as the place and time of his activity.1The heightened interest is obvious since the fifth–sixth centuries proved to be a particularly stirring period. Although the last decades of the Western Roman Empire are well documented, these extant sources are mostly fragmented. Among these sources one can find a ninth-century collection referred as "Cod. Berol. Phillipps 1885" kept in Berlin. Onthe top of one of the extracts the following can be read: “item ex libris chronicorum inter cetera,” that is, in fact the "Pars Posterior" of Anonymus. The "Pars Posterior," along with several other fragments, was already published in 1636 – edited by Henri de Valois –, and it took almost another fifty years when his brother Hadrian re-edited the work of Anonymous in the edition of Ammianus Marcellinus in 1681. It was the first time when "Excerpta ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 I. König, "Aus der Zeit Theoderichs des Grossen. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar einer anonymen Quelle." Darmstadt 1997, 1–2. 2 König, Aus der Zeit, 1-2. The corpus which was first presented by Henri de Valois contains a part of an eighth–ninth-century manuscript collection which originated from Italy, most likely from Verona. The collection later turned up in the "Jesuit Collège de Clermont" in Paris. The parchment bundle, originally consisted of 34 flimsy layers – a manuscript prepared by nine different hands – was later ordered and attached together acccording to the hands. The collection appeared in the catalogue of the Jesuit college at the occasion of the sale of the library by auction in 1764. The collection was sold and transferred to a certain Johannes Meermann ("Codex Meermannus" 794) in the Hague. Following the death of Meermann, the collection was possessed by an English collector Sir Thomas Phillipps ("Codex Phillippsianus" 1885). Later, through the heirs, it was taken by the German State Library in Berlin in 1887 where it is accessible today under the shelf-mark: ‘Ms. Phill. 1885’. 3 Anon. Val. P.P. Consularia Italica. Anonymi Valesiani "Pars Posterior." Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Auctorum Antiquissimorum. 9. Ed.: T. Mommsen, Berlin, 1892. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Valesiana," that is the edition of the Pars Posterior was clearly separated from other fragments. Due to the nature (ex chronicorum libris) of the Pars Posterior it can be approached as follows: 1) it can be regarded a ninth-century extract of one or more sixth-century works; 2) or perhaps it might be an earlier (sc. prior to the ninth century) interpolated sixth-century text which was copied in the ninth century; 3) or the known text is a ninth-century summary or the re-edition of one or more sixth-century works. Regarding contemporary mainstream research, the present study concerns the Excerpta as a single work of an unknown sixth-century author, which was produced at unknown place and time. In the course of the following analysis, attempts are going to be made for the explanation of the “30/33” years problem, as well as to identify the time and place of the record of the "Pars Posterior." In the first phase of the research on the "Pars Posterior" – during the last years of the nineteenth century – the Italian Carlo Cippola was convinced that instead of an author, one should think of an editor of the "opus." According to his thesis, Anonymous’ activity did not exceed the juxtaposition of the different sources. The idea of those scholars who argued for the (re)division or reorganization of the work can easily be justified since the "Pars Posterior" follows an unusual editorial principle. The work of Anonymous consists of 60 chapters ("caput") and it presents the chain of events as a chronicle from Chapter 36 to 59: from the rule of Emperor Zeno, through the decline of the power of Odoacer, up to the succession of Theoderic in ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 B, Croke, „Latin Historiography and the Barbarian Kingdoms.” in G. Marasco, Greek & Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity Fouth to Sixth Century A.D., Ledien-Boston 2003, 352. König, Aus der Zeit, 1-2. The catalogue of the Louis-le-Grand library in Paris listed the contents in 1764 as follows: “Codex membranaceus in 4° minori (constants foliis 75) saec IX. Exaratus. Ibi continentur I. Isidori Hispalensis historia Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum. II. Anonymus de gestis Constantini Magni. III. Excerpta ex chronicis incertis de rebus Zenonis et Anastasii imperatorum nec non Theoderici regis. IV. Excerpta ex aliis chronicis de rebus Iustiniani et Francorum usque ad Carolum Martellum”. 5 S. J. B. Barnish, „The Anonymus Valesianus II as a Source for the Last Years of Theoderic.” Latomus 42 (1983), 572–596. 6 C, Cippola, „Le vestigial del frasario officiale presso l’ “Anonimo Valesiano II’” Miscellanea di Studi in Onore di Attilio Hortis (1910) 919-928. Similar to Cipolla, Roberto Cessi argued for the reorganization. He had a closer look of the Pars Posterior from the points of view of Classical literary traditions as well as from that of linguistics. In the course of the elaboration of his thesis the style of the work played an important role: he observed that the first part of the opus praised Theoderic while the second part – from Chapter 83 onwards – argues against the ruler. (R, Cessi, „La vita di Papa Giovanni I nel Liber Pontificalis e nell’ Anonimo Valesiano” in A. Muratori, Archivio Muratoriano. 19/20 (1917), 474–478). Against the background provided by the two parts, Cessi linked the Pars posterior to two authors: the first part was written by a person who supported Theoderic and the Ostrogoths, while the second parts was compiled by a clergyman. After Cipolla, it was Nino Tamassia who made remarks concerning the "Pars Posterior." The scholar drew a parallel between the "Book of Kings" and the "Pars Posterior" and attempted to underpin with the information by several authors about the great-scale building activity and jurisdiction during the rule of both Theoderic and Solomon. Based on..

CHRONICA
ANNUAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED HUNGARY
Editors: Sándor Gyarmati, Zsolt Hunyadi, Tamás Kovács
Editorial Board: Koszta László f, Tibor Almási, László J. Nagy, Enikő Sajti, Sándor Csernus, László Marjanucz
Articles appearing in the CHRONICA are abstracted in HISTORICAL ABSTRACT AND AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE

Contents
Articles
Ta m á s Ko v á c s
Some remarks on Anonymus Valensianus' Pars Posterior............................. 5
Péter Ba r a
Philotheos of Opsikion: A New Saint in Twelfth-Century Thessalonike? .... 17
Gá b o r Ba r a b á s
The Titles of the Hungarian Royal Family in the Light of Hungarian and Papal Sources in the First Half of the 13th Century.......................................... 28
Zs o l t Hu n y a d i
The Western Schism and Hungary: from Louis I to Sigismund of Luxembourg............................................................................................................ 45
László Gálffy
Structures locales et établissements ecclésiastiques dans la conception d'Henri Pirenne concernant la reprise urbaine du Xe au XIIe siècles ........................................................................................... 54
En ik ő A. Sa jt i
Magyars and Serbs: the 'Southlands' 1941-1945............................................... 62
Ge o r g in a N a g y
La naissance des états dans le territoire Maghrébin «la guerre des sables» entre le Maroc et l'Algérie..................................................................................... 78
Theses
Sza bo lc s Felföldi
Life along the Late Antique and Early Medieval Silk Road.
Niya of the 3rd and 4th centuries in the light of archaeological finds and written sources...................................................................................... 87
L e v e n t e Ig a z
Estados beligerantes en la Peninsula Ibérica y la cuenca de los Cárpatos entre los siglos IX-XIII. Los elementos comparables de dos caminos de medieval história militar de Europa.................................................................... 91
S z i l v ia Ko v á c s
History of the Cumans to the Mongol invasion................................................ 99
Mik l ó s Ha l m á g y i
Die Fragen der Identität und Fremdheitsvorstellungen aufgrund der gewählten Autoren der ersten Jahrtausendwende.................. 105
Pét er Sz il á g y i
The Libyan monarchy from the independence
until the nationalist revolution, 1951-1969......................................................... 118
T i b o r Sz ő c s
A history of the palatinal institution in the Árpádian Age and in the first half of the Angevin Period (1000-1342).................................. 124
K r i s z t in a Rá b a i
Charters of the Angevin Period Vol. XL (1356).................................................. 133

Review
Szabolcs Polgár
New Research on the Prehistory of the Hungarians........................ ................... 141

Some remarks on Anonymus Valesianus’ Pars Posterior
Tamás Kovács

The work of the Anonymous Valesianus, known as "Pars Posterior," is a debated issue of historiography for more than one hundred years, all the more so as both the identity of the author and the circumstances of the compilation of the work are obscure. The opus of Anonymous is, however, unavoidable while studying the Ostrogothic rule in Italy since it reveals several elements which cannot be found in contemporary sources. The decades since the publication of the first scholarly monograph witnessed an abundance of studies which attempted to answer the questions concerning the "Pars Posterior," to identify the author as well as the place and time of his activity.1The heightened interest is obvious since the fifth–sixth centuries proved to be a particularly stirring period. Although the last decades of the Western Roman Empire are well documented, these extant sources are mostly fragmented. Among these sources one can find a ninth-century collection referred as "Cod. Berol. Phillipps 1885" kept in Berlin. Onthe top of one of the extracts the following can be read: “item ex libris chronicorum inter cetera,” that is, in fact the "Pars Posterior" of Anonymus. The "Pars Posterior," along with several other fragments, was already published in 1636 – edited by Henri de Valois –, and it took almost another fifty years when his brother Hadrian re-edited the work of Anonymous in the edition of Ammianus Marcellinus in 1681. It was the first time when "Excerpta
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1 I. König, "Aus der Zeit Theoderichs des Grossen. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar einer anonymen Quelle." Darmstadt 1997, 1–2. 2 König, Aus der Zeit, 1-2. The corpus which was first presented by Henri de Valois contains a part of an eighth–ninth-century manuscript collection which originated from Italy, most likely from Verona. The collection later turned up in the "Jesuit Collège de Clermont" in Paris. The parchment bundle, originally consisted of 34 flimsy layers – a manuscript prepared by nine different hands – was later ordered and attached together acccording to the hands. The collection appeared in the catalogue of the Jesuit college at the occasion of the sale of the library by auction in 1764. The collection was sold and transferred to a certain Johannes Meermann ("Codex Meermannus" 794) in the Hague. Following the death of Meermann, the collection was possessed by an English collector Sir Thomas Phillipps ("Codex Phillippsianus" 1885). Later, through the heirs, it was taken by the German State Library in Berlin in 1887 where it is accessible today under the shelf-mark: ‘Ms. Phill. 1885’. 3 Anon. Val. P.P. Consularia Italica. Anonymi Valesiani "Pars Posterior." Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Auctorum Antiquissimorum. 9. Ed.: T. Mommsen, Berlin, 1892.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"Valesiana," that is the edition of the Pars Posterior was clearly separated from other fragments.

Due to the nature (ex chronicorum libris) of the Pars Posterior it can be approached as follows: 1) it can be regarded a ninth-century extract of one or more sixth-century works; 2) or perhaps it might be an earlier (sc. prior to the ninth century) interpolated sixth-century text which was copied in the ninth century; 3) or the known text is a ninth-century summary or the re-edition of one or more sixth-century works.

Regarding contemporary mainstream research, the present study concerns the Excerpta as a single work of an unknown sixth-century author, which was produced at unknown place and time. In the course of the following analysis, attempts are going to be made for the explanation of the “30/33” years problem, as well as to identify the time and place of the record of the "Pars Posterior."

In the first phase of the research on the "Pars Posterior" – during the last years of the nineteenth century – the Italian Carlo Cippola was convinced that instead of an author, one should think of an editor of the "opus." According to his thesis, Anonymous’ activity did not exceed the juxtaposition of the different sources. The idea of those scholars who argued for the (re)division or reorganization of the work can easily be justified since the "Pars Posterior" follows an unusual editorial principle.

The work of Anonymous consists of 60 chapters ("caput") and it presents the chain of events as a chronicle from Chapter 36 to 59: from the rule of Emperor Zeno, through the decline of the power of Odoacer, up to the succession of Theoderic in
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4 B, Croke, „Latin Historiography and the Barbarian Kingdoms.” in G. Marasco, Greek & Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity Fouth to Sixth Century A.D., Ledien-Boston 2003, 352. König, Aus der Zeit, 1-2. The catalogue of the Louis-le-Grand library in Paris listed the contents in 1764 as follows: “Codex membranaceus in 4° minori (constants foliis 75) saec IX. Exaratus. Ibi continentur I. Isidori Hispalensis historia Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum. II. Anonymus de gestis Constantini Magni. III. Excerpta ex chronicis incertis de rebus Zenonis et Anastasii imperatorum nec non Theoderici regis. IV. Excerpta ex aliis chronicis de rebus Iustiniani et Francorum usque ad Carolum Martellum”. 5 S. J. B. Barnish, „The Anonymus Valesianus II as a Source for the Last Years of Theoderic.” Latomus 42 (1983), 572–596. 6 C, Cippola, „Le vestigial del frasario officiale presso l’ “Anonimo Valesiano II’” Miscellanea di Studi in Onore di Attilio Hortis (1910) 919-928. Similar to Cipolla, Roberto Cessi argued for the reorganization. He had a closer look of the Pars Posterior from the points of view of Classical literary traditions as well as from that of linguistics. In the course of the elaboration of his thesis the style of the work played an important role: he observed that the first part of the opus praised Theoderic while the second part – from Chapter 83 onwards – argues against the ruler. (R, Cessi, „La vita di Papa Giovanni I nel Liber Pontificalis e nell’ Anonimo Valesiano” in A. Muratori, Archivio Muratoriano. 19/20 (1917), 474–478). Against the background provided by the two parts, Cessi linked the Pars posterior to two authors: the first part was written by a person who supported Theoderic and the Ostrogoths, while the second parts was compiled by a clergyman. After Cipolla, it was Nino Tamassia who made remarks
concerning the "Pars Posterior." The scholar drew a parallel between the "Book of Kings" and the "Pars Posterior" and attempted to underpin with the information by several authors about the great-scale building activity and jurisdiction during the rule of both Theoderic and Solomon. Based on..