Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on Spelling

Figures and Maps



Introduction



1 Hungarian Military Organization, 1387–1526

 1 The Inheritance: Political and Territorial Structures

 2 The Angevin Legacy

 3 Sigismund and his Reforms

 4 The Armies of Hunyadi

 5 King Matthias – The Myth of the Black Army

 6 The Jagiellos: Adaptation under Pressure



2 The New Enemy: Hungary and the Ottomans, 1389–1429

 1 The First Contacts between Hungary and the Turks

 2 The Battle of Nicopolis

 3 From Nicopolis to Golubac

 4 The Siege of Golubac



3 From Golubac to Belgrade, 1428–1456

 1 The Last Years of Sigismund

 2 Albert to Wladislas i – Troubled Times

 3 The First Ottoman Wars of Hunyadi, 1441–1443

 4 The War of Illusions: The “Long March,” 1443–1444

 5 The King’s Death: The Varna Campaign

 6 The Last Offensive: The Battle of Kosovo Polje, 1448

 7 On the Defensive: From Kosovo Polje to Belgrade, 1448–1456

 8 The Siege of Belgrade, 1456



4 From Belgrade to Vienna: King Matthias and the Ottomans, 1458–1483

 1 Securing the Borders, 1458–1466

 1.1 Hungary and the Fall of Serbia, 1457-1459

 1.2 Conflicting Views: King Matthias and Mihály Szilágyi, 1459-1460

 1.3 The Return of Mehmed ii to the North

 1.4 From Jajce to Zvornik, 1463-1464

 1.5 “Passive Resistance”, 1465-1466

 2 Turning West, 1467–1483

 2.1 The Years of Disengagement, 1467-1475

 2.2 The Siege of Šabac

 2.3 Transylvania, Bosnia, Otranto, 1478-1482



5 The Wars of the “Long Peace,” 1483–1520

 1 The Last Years of Matthias

 2 From War to Peace, 1490–1495

 3 A War that Nobody Wanted, 1499–1503

 4 Shifting Alliances, 1508–1511

 5 Under Pressure Again, 1511–1513

 6 Towards the Edge of the Abyss, 1514–1520



6 The Collapse, 1521–1526

 1 The Third Siege of Belgrade, 1521

 2 Preparing for the Deluge: After Belgrade, 1522–1525

 3 The Final Countdown, 1525–1526

 4 The Battle of Mohács



7 Conclusion: Why Did Hungary Lose?

 1 The Fall of Medieval Hungary, Part One: The Superiority of Ottoman Military Organization

 2 The Fall of Medieval Hungary, Part Two: A Fiscal Breakdown



Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Tamás Pálosfalvi, Ph.D (2012), Central European University, is senior research fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published books and articles on late medieval Hungary, including The Noble Elite in the County of Körös (Križevci), 1400-1526 (MTA BTK Történettudományi Intézet, 2014).

Reviews

'This is a significant achievement and will become a standard reference work in English on Ottoman-Hungarian military history to 1526. The images used as illustrations, some of which are contemporary to the events and others which are nineteenthcentury history paintings, deserve a study in their own right'.


Robyn Dora Radway, Central European University, in Renaissance Quarterly Volume LXXIII, No. 1: 309-310