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The Battle of Mohács, 1526
Series: - History of Warfare, Volume: 146
Volume Editor:
The story of the battle of Mohács and of King Louis IIâs dramatic escape, only to meet his end by falling from his horse and drowning in the stream of Csele, is well-known. These traumatic events have been seen as symbolizing the fall of the independent Hungarian Kingdom and the dawn of an age of oppression.
This volume presents new research on these events and their interpretation, focusing on topics such as battlefield reconstruction, troop involvement, firearm use, and later political use and abuse of the memory of the battle.
Contributors are Pál Fodor, Péter Gyenizse, Erika Hancz, Máté Kitanics, Sándor Konkoly, Dénes Lóczy, Tamás Morva, Norbert Pap, Júlia Papp, Gábor Szalai, and Gábor Varga.
This volume presents new research on these events and their interpretation, focusing on topics such as battlefield reconstruction, troop involvement, firearm use, and later political use and abuse of the memory of the battle.
Contributors are Pál Fodor, Péter Gyenizse, Erika Hancz, Máté Kitanics, Sándor Konkoly, Dénes Lóczy, Tamás Morva, Norbert Pap, Júlia Papp, Gábor Szalai, and Gábor Varga.
Norbert Pap, Ph.D. (1999), University of Pécs, Hungary, is a Full Professor of Historical and Political Geography at that university. He has published monographs and a number of articles on Central Europe and the Balkans.
Preface of the Editor
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Exploring Research Challenges on the Battle of Mohács
âNorbert Pap
1 Süleyman and Hungary: Conquest, Ideology and Memory
âPál Fodor
2 The Main Scenes
âNorbert Pap, Máté Kitanics and Péter Gyenizse
3 The Hungarian and Ottoman Forces at the Battle of Mohács
âMáté Kitanics, Pál Fodor and Norbert Pap
4 Ottoman Turkish Handguns
âNorbert Pap, Pál Fodor and Máté Kitanics
5 The Battle and Its Aftermath
âNorbert Pap and Máté Kitanics
6 Geomorphology of the Mohács Plain and Its Environs
âPéter Gyenizse, Dénes Lóczy and Gábor Varga
7 Reconstruction of the Drainage of the Mohács Plain and Its Implications for the Battle of Mohács
âPéter Gyenizse, Dénes Lóczy and Gábor Varga
8 Localizing the Central Area of the Battle of Mohács: Search for the Medieval Settlement of Földvár
âNorbert Pap, Máté Kitanics and Péter Gyenizse
9 Critical Comments on the Available Military Archaeology Topographic Data
âMáté Kitanics, Norbert Pap, Sándor Konkoly and Erika Hancz
10 Where and How Did King Louis II Die?
âNorbert Pap, Péter Gyenizse and Máté Kitanics
11 Hünkâr Tepesi (Törökdomb): the Ottoman Memorial Place of the Battle
âNorbert Pap, Pál Fodor, Máté Kitanics, Tamás Morva, Gábor Szalai, Erika Hancz and Péter Gyenizse
12 Landscape, Artistic Representation, Memorials: Remembrance of the Location of the Battle of Mohács in 1526
âJúlia Papp
13 Memorial Politics and the Sites of the Battle of Mohács
âNorbert Pap
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Exploring Research Challenges on the Battle of Mohács
âNorbert Pap
PART 1: The Armies and the Battle
1 Süleyman and Hungary: Conquest, Ideology and Memory
âPál Fodor
2 The Main Scenes
âNorbert Pap, Máté Kitanics and Péter Gyenizse
3 The Hungarian and Ottoman Forces at the Battle of Mohács
âMáté Kitanics, Pál Fodor and Norbert Pap
4 Ottoman Turkish Handguns
âNorbert Pap, Pál Fodor and Máté Kitanics
5 The Battle and Its Aftermath
âNorbert Pap and Máté Kitanics
PART 2: The Overall Landscape
6 Geomorphology of the Mohács Plain and Its Environs
âPéter Gyenizse, Dénes Lóczy and Gábor Varga
7 Reconstruction of the Drainage of the Mohács Plain and Its Implications for the Battle of Mohács
âPéter Gyenizse, Dénes Lóczy and Gábor Varga
PART 3: The Battle Arena
8 Localizing the Central Area of the Battle of Mohács: Search for the Medieval Settlement of Földvár
âNorbert Pap, Máté Kitanics and Péter Gyenizse
9 Critical Comments on the Available Military Archaeology Topographic Data
âMáté Kitanics, Norbert Pap, Sándor Konkoly and Erika Hancz
10 Where and How Did King Louis II Die?
âNorbert Pap, Péter Gyenizse and Máté Kitanics
PART 4: Spaces of Remembrance
11 Hünkâr Tepesi (Törökdomb): the Ottoman Memorial Place of the Battle
âNorbert Pap, Pál Fodor, Máté Kitanics, Tamás Morva, Gábor Szalai, Erika Hancz and Péter Gyenizse
12 Landscape, Artistic Representation, Memorials: Remembrance of the Location of the Battle of Mohács in 1526
âJúlia Papp
13 Memorial Politics and the Sites of the Battle of Mohács
âNorbert Pap
Index
The readers of the book are mostly academics/specialists, post-graduate students, high school teachers on the field of history, conflict archaeology and historical geography as well as those individuals are interested in military history.