Queen Beatrix and King Matthias
From February 21 to 24, Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) will celebrate the birthday of Matthias Hunyadi, the city’s famous son, with a series of events, lectures, and concerts lasting several days.
The core of the series of events in the Transylvanian city is the 34th edition of the Cluj-Napoca Matthias Days organized by the Amaryllis Society.
The program begins on Saturday at 6 p.m. in the birthplace of Matthias Hunyadi, where historian Mária Makó Lupescu will give a lecture entitled “The King Marries” about the wedding of King Matthias and Beatrix of Aragon 550 years ago. Árpád Fehér will play the Renaissance lute.
On Sunday at 11 a.m., the great king will be commemorated during Holy Mass in St. Michael’s Church with the ringing of bells ordered by Pope Callixtus III. The St. Cecilia Choir will perform works by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, who was born 500 years ago, accompanied by István Bodó on the trumpet.
On Sunday evening at 6 p.m., the audience can attend a performance by the Renaissance Ensemble from Diemrich (Déva, Deva) in the main building of the Transylvanian Hungarian University Sapientia (EMTE). This will be followed by a joint dance performance by first-year students from the university’s dance department and the historical dance ensemble Passeggio.
On Monday, February 23—the birthday of King Matthias—the UniCante university choir from Cluj-Napoca will perform in the refectory of the Franciscan monastery.
On Tuesday, February 24, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) will also commemorate the birthday of its namesake. Under the title At the Table of King Matthias – Cuisine and Hierarchy in the Renaissance, a panel discussion will take place, providing insight into Renaissance gastronomy based on handwritten and printed recipe books.
The guests at the event, which will take place at the MCC headquarters in Cluj-Napoca, are historian Mária Makó Lupescu, sociologist Katalin E. Jancsó, master chef Márta Pozsonyi, and historian Attila Hunyadi. The discussion will be moderated by literary historian Zsuzsa Demeter.
Regional differences, the passing on of recipes, and the history of the development of kitchen utensils will also be discussed.
The MCC’s invitation reminds us that the first handwritten cookbook in Hungarian, Szakács tudomány (The Art of Cooking), dates from 1569 and that the author describes himself as the head chef at the court of the Prince of Transylvania.
The first printed Hungarian cookbook, Szakács mesterségnek könyvecskéje (The Handbook of the Art of Cooking), was published by the printing house of Nikolaus (Miklós) Misztótfalusi Kis. Reading the recipes in these culinary poems, one can also trace how food became fashionable, according to the invitation.
Matthias I (whose real name was Matthias Hunyadi) was born on February 23, 1443 (according to the inscription on the plaque at his birthplace on March 27) in Cluj-Napoca in the house of the wealthy winegrower Jakob Méhffi.
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