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Hungary, one of the youngest Christianized state of Europe produced a whole array of home-grown saints barely a century after its adoption of Christianity in the late 10th century. What makes the country's cultural history unique is the fact that a dozen of these saints became known within and without the borders of medieval Hungary as descendants of the selfsame royal dynasty, the House of Arpad. The ones who rose to fame and popularity were members of the royal family: king Saint Stephen, founder of the Christian monarchy and his son, prince Emeric, Saint Ladislas the Hungarian "knight-king", canonized in 1196, as well as the 13th century female saints of the dynasty: the saints Elizabeth and Margaret of Hungary, together with those Arpadian princesses married abroad who became venerated as saints in their countries of adoption. Although most Christian nations of Europe can boast royal saints, such prominence of "a dynasty of holy kings" is largely unparalleled. Without an adequate knowledge of the cult of these saints and the cultural traditions entailed (touching on the history of religion, art history, folklore) a sizable portion of Hungarian cultural heritage would be difficult to grasp. The present work of Zoltán Magyar is a representative monograph offering a panoramic view of such Hungarian national traditions while giving ample space to the Western cultural influences that helped in shaping them.

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