Bartha Antal: Hungarian society in the 9th and 10th centuries - Studia historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 85. (Budapest, 1975)
A. Bartha A. BARTHA HUNGARIAN SOCIETY IN THE 9th AND 10th CENTURIES HUNGARIAN SOCIETY IN THE 9th AND 10th CENTURIES The Hungarian tribal confederation conquered the Carpathian Basin in 896 A. D. Previously, the Magyars had maintained centuries-long connections with the Khazar Kaganate, the Principality of Kiev, etc. — contacts that have left their indelible imprint on the socialeconomic face of the nation. Under the impact of the stormy period of the Great Migration, intricate interrelations developed, resulting in a mixed system of nomadic and feudal elements. Archaeological finds as well as written sources provide points of approach for the analysis of the origin and evolution of East-European feudalism which was marked by the absence of any antique preliminaries, except for certain traditions of Byzantine origin. Yet, and this is the novel result of the author’s investigations, the Hungarian society that consolidated in the course of the ninth and tenth centuries showed — in spite of different historical antecedents — essentially the same traits as were characteristic of the general trend of development in other parts of feudalistic Europe. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest S TU DIAJ"Jl S T О RIC A Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae