Coats of Arms and Families

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Workshop
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Open to the Public
Monday, October 13, 2014 - 10:00am
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Monday, October 13, 2014 - 10:00am to 6:00pm

A conference on heraldry and genealogy will be held at the Károlyi Mansion Fehérvárcsurgó on October 13, Monday (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.) organized by the Central European University, Budapest and the Károlyi Foundation, Fehérvárcsurgó.

Szabolcs de Vajay was an outstanding international scholar of genealogy (family history) and heraldry (interdisciplinary studies of coat of arms). He was a leading cultural diplomat for UNESCO, a key figure in the intellectual life of the Hungarian emigration after World War II and an internationally acknowledged scholar of social history, genealogy and heraldry. The conference intends to continue the academic research tradition initiated by him. In the first part, three key note speakers, all well-known scholars in the field of heraldry and genealogy (Michael Pastoureau, Michael Göbl, Christian Settipani), will speak about general research issues. In the second part, students and faculty members from CEU and of other Hungarian universities (Pécs, Debrecen, ELTE, Pázmány Péter) will present their research results.

The Károlyi Mansion in Fehérvárcsurgó is a European Cultural Meeting Center and a European Documentation Center that also accommodates the library and research material of Szabolcs de Vajay and Ferenc Fejtő, another leading figure in the Hungarian emigration. Szabolcs de Vajay was a recurrent visiting professor at CEU, in the program of the Medieval Studies Department. He played a crucial role in the emergence and in expanding the academic contacts of this program in its early phases. Therefore, the conference is organized jointly by the Károlyi Foundation and CEU, with the involvement of students (MA and PhD) and faculty members of the Department of Medieval Studies and the Cultural Heritage Studies program.  

CEU organizes a bus service from Budapest to Fehérvárcsurgó for 1000 HUF. Lunch is also available at Károlyi Mansion Fehérvárcsurgó for 1000 HUF. You can register for the bus and the lunch by 8 October the latest at the following address: http://doodle.com/tz7qn6phcpdzdbu5.

The bus for Fehérvárcsurgó leaves at 8.15 from Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Way, behind the Basilica.

 

Conference Program

9.30-10.00 Registration

Session 1 (10:00-13:00):

Hofrat Dr. Michael Göbl (Österreichischen Staatsarchiv, Heraldisch-genealogische Gesellschaft “Adler,” Vienna): Heraldry - Symbols for Politics and for the Own Fate

Christian Settipani (Independent scholar, Unit for Prosopographical Research, Oxford): Nouveautés sur les alliances des comtes de Bourgogne au Xe siècle [Novelties about alliances of Burgundian counts in the 10th century]

Laszlovszky József (CEU, Budapest): Invented and Imagined Royal Family Histories

Introduction of the Vajay library and opening the exhibitions


Session 2 (13.45-18.00):

Christopher Mielke (CEU): Scuto bonae voluntatis tuae coronasti nos: the Heraldric Programs of Three Fourteenth Century Hungarian Queens

Antun Nekic (CEU): Halfway between the Kindred and the County are the Affines: Some Examples of Marriage Strategies in 14th Century County of Križevci 

István Kádas (ELTE): Marriage Strategies of the Semsey Family in the Late Middle Ages

Tamás Körmendi (ELTE): La première apparition de la double croix aux armoiries des rois de Hongrie entre 1235–1241 [The first appearance of the double cross in the coat of arms of the kings of medieval Hungary between 1235–1241]

Attila Bárány (University of Debrecen): The St. Michael Order in Noble Tombstones in Later Medieval Hungary

Attila Györkös (MTA-DE "Hungary in medieval Europe" Lendület Research Group): Représentations héraldiques dans les manuscrits de Pierre Choque: Discours des cérémonies du mariage d'Anne de Foix” (1502)

Ádám Novák (University of Debrecen): Seals of Noblemen in the Fifteenth Century

Dániel Bácsatyai (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Hungarian Incursions in Burgundy: à propos of Recent French Historiography

Elek Szaszkó (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Remarks on the Coat of Arms of the Szeri Pósafis and their Former Clan, the Bár-Kaláns

Guided tour in the Mansion (by Károlyi Foundation)

 

Exhibition of painted coat of arms by Katalin Szalai

Exhibition in memoriam Szabolcs de Vajay

 

 

 

 

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