Hungary in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Nora Berend
The kingdom of Hungary was formed and consolidated as a part Latin Christendom during the eleventh twelfth centuries. at intersection three cultures: Roman Christian, Byzantine nomad. And its development influenced by each. dynasty that ruled house Arpád, whose first Christian king Stephen I. While monastic communities conforming to Greek rite flourished in until thirteenth century, missionaries priests who gathered Stephen's court were westerners Christianity became majority religion. Pagan revolts broke out 1046 1061, pagan practices persisted. By landed property becoming basis Hungarian society, with groups different legal status living on royal, ecclesiastical noble estates. Hungary's social economic structure underwent radical changes. A strong emerged organization, where beginnings money economy, chivalry early Gothic appeared.
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