Thoughts from the curator on the book accompanying the Kings and Saints : The Age of the Árpáds exhibition: the geopolitical significance of the Carpathian Basin in the age of the grand princes and kings of the Hungarian House of Árpád and in the preceding period

Makoldi, Miklós Zsombor (2022) Thoughts from the curator on the book accompanying the Kings and Saints : The Age of the Árpáds exhibition: the geopolitical significance of the Carpathian Basin in the age of the grand princes and kings of the Hungarian House of Árpád and in the preceding period. In: Kings and Saints : The Age of the Árpáds. Publications of the Institute of Hungarian Research (6). Magyarságkutató Intézet; Szent István Király Múzeum, Budapest, Székesfehérvár, pp. 21-46. ISBN 9786156117656

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Abstract

The exhibition entitled Kings and Saints – The Age of the Árpáds opened in Hungary’s historical sacred capital, the coronation town of the kings of the House of Árpád, on 18 March 2022. The archaeological artifacts and historical documents on display at the exhibition reveal the history of the Hungarians from Árpád’s arrival in the Carpathian Basin to the extinction of the House of Árpád upon the death of András III in 1301. The exhibition presents the history and material culture of a ruling family which – having arrived as an equestrian people of the steppe and later making Christianity a state religion – gave the world not only an apostolic king but also the highest number of saints from one family, and ruled the Carpathian Basin with a very strong hand for four hundred years, influencing almost all of Europe through its extensive dynastic connections. To understand the geopolitical significance of Hungary and the Carpathian Basin in the Árpád period, we need to go back to the distant past; at the same time, we need to clarify the historical significance of the House of Árpád itself, and to understand the purpose and geographical origin of the Hungarians who arrived in the Carpathian Basin, led by Árpád, to the territory of present-day Hungary.

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