A distinguished scholar of medieval history covers the early history of the Magyars, their migration to and settlement in the mid-Danubian region, the clash of the Roman Church with the hierarchy of the emerging German empire over Pannonia, the marauding ventures in the Latin West and the Byzantine southeast, the emergence of the Hungarian regnum under King St. Stephen, Hungarian law and domestic turmoil in the earlier half of the eleventh century and the reign of Andrew I and Bela I.
