Gy. MORAVCSIK. Byzantium and the Magyars. "Akademiai kiado". Budapest. 1970. 148 p. A new book by one of the greatest contemporary Byzantinists, Hungarian academic Gyula Moravczyk, summarizes his half-century of research on the problem of Hungarian-Byzantine relations. Even in the last years of World War II, the author completed his first major work on this subject, which was published in Hungarian in 1953.1 Three years later, another of his works was published in German translation, dealing mainly with the cultural aspect of the same problem .2 Thus, the book under review, on the one hand, is a reprint of previously published works (the author himself notes this in the preface), and on the other hand, it contains such a revised and expanded text that we are, in fact, a new monograph, which takes into account the results of research on problems achieved in science over the past few years. since more than fifteen years. Like all other studies by D. Moravchik, the book is distinguished by an exhaustive knowledge of sources, a broad approach to the formulation and solution of the problem, and a thorough argumentation of conclusions .3 The work is small in volume, but very rich in content. The author seeks to trace all aspects of Hungarian-Byzantine relations for almost a millennium-from the first news in the sources about the "Onogurs " and" Ugrs " up to the fall of Byzantium in 1453. The author scrupulously takes into account the results of research by specialists in the field of socio-economic and political history of Byzantium and Hungary, relying mainly on Marxist historiography, including the works of Soviet Byzantinists. In chapter one ("Byzantium"), D. Moravchik gave a masterful description of the socio-economic, political, and cultural development of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, briefly outlining its history in the light of the Marxist doctrine of changing socio-economic formations. This chapter, which precedes the study of t ... Read more