Valahii şi monarhii lor:Transilvania între huniazi, habsburgi, jagielloni şi ţările române
The Walachians and their Monarchs: Transylvania between Hunyadis, Habsburgs, Jagiellonians and the Wallachian States

Summary/Abstract: D’origine humile de progenie de Valacchia, as contemporary Venetian records put it, Matthias Corvinus had not only risen to the Hungarian throne, but had also claimed a spot in the center of European political attention. A certain fascination, developed afterwards into certain hate or admiration, marked his reign and his story (little room was left for in-difference, although several contemporaries attempted to play it that way, the safe way in relation to the troubles involved by the actions and the legacy of the son of Christian hero John Hunyadi). In the early 1490s, Hungary felt increasingly the pressure put on her by Matthias Corvinus’ rule and death. The expenses of his diplomacy and army, as well as the costs of his humanist endeavors, that had made his library the second largest in the world at that time, had brought the realm and the court to the point where it was rumored that king Matthias’ burial could not be paid for. Eventually this was not the case. Humanist phrases and Jagellonian failures kept Matthias glory alive even over the next years. On Walachian, „(re)turned” Romanian, soil this was hardly the case, namely in the last two centuries.

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