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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1122: The Jagellonian 'Empire' and Western European Diplomacy, 1490-1526

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:'Memoriae Regum' Research Group, Department of History, University of Debrecen
Organiser:Imre Papp, Department of History, University of Debrecen
Moderator/Chair:Paul Knoll, Department of History, University of Southern California
Paper 1122-aThe Jagellonian 'Empire' and French Diplomacy, 1490-1526
(Language: English)
Attila Györkös, Department of History, University of Debrecen
Index terms: Crusades, Military History, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1122-bThe Habsburgs and the Jagiellonian Kingdoms: Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, 1490-1526
(Language: English)
Gábor Bradács, 'Hungary in Medieval Europe' Lendület Research Group (MTA-DE), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest / Department of History, University of Debrecen
Index terms: Crusades, Military History, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1122-cEarly Tudor Diplomacy and Jagiellonian Hungary, 1490-1526
(Language: English)
Attila Bárány, Department of History, University of Debrecen
Index terms: Crusades, Military History, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract

Although between 1490 and 1526 Jagiellonian Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary were governed independently, French, English, and Imperial diplomacy treated them as a uniform block. France tried to establish an alliance-system at the back of the Habsburgs but recognized they were rather an 'informal empire', following own interests. Tudor policy found Hungary, despite struggling the Ottomans in inner decay, provided shelter for Yorkists. The Habsburgs re-assessed the Jagiellonians were still strong enough to threaten to elect national monarchs and neglect previous pacts. In the new power system of newly emerged Valois/Tudor/Habsburg grandeur did they play their traditional medieval roles as 'empires'?