The Oldest News about the Pechenegs in Medieval Hungarian Sources
Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
For citation: Yurasov, Mikhail K. The Oldest News about the Pechenegs in Medieval Hungarian Sources // Drevneishie gosudarstva Vostochnoi Evropy (The Earliest States of Eastern Europe). 2024: In memoriam Alexandr V. Nazarenko / Editors of the volume Т.V. Guimon, P.V. Lukin, Е.А. Мelnikova, А.V. Podossinov. Мoscow: GAUGN-Press, 2024. S. 267–274.
DOI: 10.32608/1560-1382-2024-45-267-274
Abstract: The earliest extant information about the peoples of Eastern Europe in the Latin-language writings of the Kingdom of Hungary is contained in an excerpt from a solemn sermon of the first Bishop of Chanad Gellert which is dated between 1030–1038. This passage is contained in the codex of the 14th century, discovered by F. Heinzer. In it, Gellert complains that he is forced to preach Christianity to the Pechenegs who have never not heard about the Holy Scriptures. These must be the Pechenegs who recently came from Eastern Europe to settle in Hungary or wandered on its southeastern borders.
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