Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1320
Title	Changing Borders in Central and Eastern Pre-Modern Europe
Date/Time	Wednesday 6 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Organiser	Elvira Viktória Tamus, Faculty of History / Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair	Luca Scholz, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester
Paper 1320-a	Serbians on the Two Sides of the 15th-Century Ottoman-Hungarian Border (Language: English) Nenad Obradovic, Doctoral School of History, University of Szeged Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Demography; Military History
Paper 1320-b	Shifting Allegiances and Dynastic Struggles in 16th-Century Hungary (Language: English) Elvira Viktória Tamus, Faculty of History / Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1320-c	Peace Talks between the Hungarians (Later Habsburgs) and the Ottomans: Milestones of the Peace Treaties and Borderline Changes since the Middle Ages until the Early 17th Century (Language: English) Gellért Ernő Marton, ELKH-SZTE Research Group of the Ottoman Age, University of Szeged Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	This panel highlights the functions that borders had in theory as well as in practice in the various frontier zones of the east-central part of Europe between the 15th and early 17th centuries. By discussing how political and military frontiers changed, it explains the complicated determination of the border between the medieval and the early modern period. Nenad Obradovic will analyse Serbs' origins and role in the 15th-century Ottoman-Hungarian border zone. Elvira Tamus will explore nobles' shifting allegiances during the early 16th-century dynastic struggles for the Hungarian throne. Gellért Ernő Marton will investigate the milestones of Hungarian(later Habsburg)-Ottoman diplomacy from Sigismund of Luxembourg's increasing Ottoman problem in the 1390s, through the borderline changes under Suleiman I, until the mutual recognition of Habsburg and Ottoman rulers as equal parties in the early 17th century.