prof. dr hab. Myroslav Voloshchuk

Section 14.: One crown, many ethnicities. The multi-ethnic political communities of medieval Europe

The speech is dedicated to the term "Kingdom of Rus'" in Hungarian Latin-language sources from the reign of the Anjou dynasty. This term was used in the chancellery of King Charles Robert for the refering to the possessions of the Romanid dynasty even before the extinction of them "by the sword" in 1323. At the same time, the rulers from Rus' were titled such a Princes of the Rus' land, Galicia and Lodomeria or lords and heirs of the kingdom of Rus'. After the koronation of Louis I such a King of Hungary and Poland, the term "Kingdom of Rus'" was used to refer to the former possessions of the Romanids. During the reigns of Louis I and his daughter Mary, the government terminology of the Kingdom of Rus' was widely used, and Vladislaus II of Opole ruled these lands as their vassal in 1372-1379 and 1385-1387. The intellectual environment of the Anjou dynasty considered various instruments for institutionalizing of the Kingdom of Rus, once initiated but not completed by King Danylo