Latin Classics in Pannonhalma in the Eleventh Century

The paper deals with the role of Latin classics in eleventh-century Medieval Hungary and the Middle Ages in general, based on the example of the Benedictine abbey of Pannonhalma, which held the oldest library in Hungary. The investigation is based on four extant sources from the eleventh century, all referring to the use of Latin classical authors in a Hungarian environment, concluding that the importance of these classical sources can only be understood in a broad literary context.

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