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The Raven King : Matthias Corvinus and the fate of his lost library / Marcus Tanner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanner, Marcus.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Matthias I, King of Hungary, 1443-1490.
- Matthias.
- Matthias I, King of Hungary, 1443-1490--Library.
- Hungary--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Hungary.
- Kings and rulers.
- Hungary--History--Matthias I, 1458-1490.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Map of Hungary in the fifteenth century xxi
- Chapter 1 'Deep inside the palace' 1
- Chapter 2 Beyond the forest 20
- Chapter 3 'I delight in everything that's new' 33
- Chapter 4 'Ceaselessly entangled in warfare' 58
- Chapter 5 Beatrice 77
- Chapter 6 'The Emperor has fled' 95
- Chapter 7 The librarian Ugoleto 108
- Chapter 8 'A glutton for books' 125
- Chapter 9 Collapse 141
- Chapter 10 'Who can restrain their tears?' 168
- Chapter 11 The walls of the Seraglio 189
- Epilogue: 'Matjaz will ride out' 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300120349
- 0300120346
- OCLC:
- 163594118
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