New Issue of World History (Világtörténet) on „The Great War”
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The second issue of World History (Világtörténet) for 2015 is a thematic issue dedicated to the topic of „The Great War” edited by László Szarka has been published. The centenary of the Great War gave birth to many comprehensive monographs, profound debates on explanations and both thematically and methodologically innovative approaches first of all with emphasis upon transnational aspects. As a result, in the international historiography of the Great War the complex evaluation of this over important event became an absolute imperative.
As the long-lasting consequence of the First World War, we may consider the complete restructuring of the European state system achieved by the peace settlements in Brest-Litovsk, in Versailles and in Sevres. The most controversial issue of the nation- and state-building efforts within the borders of the multi-national dynastic Empires leading up to these catastrophic events is represented almost only in the national historiographies. This edition is dedicated to the evaluation of the extraordinarily complex process of nationalism in Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe which on the one hand had been radicalised within the Empires, on the other hand had undoubtedly been promoted to the most important problem in terms of geopolitics and from the point of view of the Great Powers. In addition to the strong dynastic loyalties at the beginning of the war the war events, the brutal treatment by the civil and military authorities, the millions of refugees and the intense harassment of the nationalities gave way to national feelings and interests.
New Issue of Historical Review (Történelmi Szemle)
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The second issue of Historical Review for 2015 has been published. Károly Goda’s study examines medieval Corpus Christi festivities and processions in a Central European context, arguing that with regard to the feast of the Eucharist the ecclesiastical sphere was in no way separated from the political one. Péter Tusor’s essay analyses in detail, in the framework of a research on the political role of the ecclesiastical estat, especially in the early modern era, and on the basis of newly discovered sources, the measures taken by its leader, György Lippay, primate of Hungary (1642-1666) in the interest if Miklós Zrínyi, ban of Croatia (1647-1664) in the court of Vienna during 1663–1664. Orsolya Völgyesi’s study hows the influence of Ferenc Kölcsey on the younger “reform” generation in the political environment of the 1830s. Viktória Kovács’s essay tries to shed light on the background to the landowning of the Premonstratensians examining and comparing different sources. János Buza’s paper deals with the characteristics of minting in Hungary before 1526. György Kurucz’s paper argues that the process of turning an uprising into a legitimate freedom fight for the elimination of the excesses of the Habsburg administration in the Kingdom of Hungary, including the recognition of the Hungarians as a negotiating party by the English and Dutch diplomacy at the beginning of the 18th century, was largely dependent on the military progresses made by the insurgent troops of Prince Ferenc Rákóczi II. Bálint Varga’s study attempts to answer the question, how 19th century historians tried to interpret „inconvenient” events (that after settling in the Carpathian Basin in the early 10th century, pagan and nomadic Magyar tribes led a series of military campaigns against the organized states of Christian Europe) in a way that they could still insert into the master narrative of the glorious national past, utilizing the required methodology of historiography. Miroslav Michaela’s study is dealing with an analysis of political and symbolic levels of the cult of St. Stephen in (Czecho)slovakia during the inter-war period.
RCH „Lendület” Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Team
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RCH „Lendület” Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Team led by Boglárka Weisz will receive priority support in the „Momentum” Program of the Hungarian Academy Sciences from July 2015 to June 2020. The Driving Forces of the Hungarian Economy in the Centuries of the Middle Ages Program conducts an interdisciplinary research of the factors that influence the way the economy of Hungary operates and changes throughout and beyond the Middle Ages, as from an economic historian’s point of view, 1526 cannot be considered an end of an era and a beginning of a new one.
New Issue of World History on Medieval History
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The first issue of World History (Világtörténet) for 2015 is a thematic issue dedicated to the topic of „Medieval Diplomacy and the Holy See” edited by Renáta Skorka has been published.
The official and documented form of the relationship between states existed already in the Middle Ages. The envoys sent out in order to protect the persons and wealth of subjects, to settle armed conflicts, or to establish formal alliances, and in the meantime collecting news and information, acted in the medieval period upon ad hoc commissions, and their tasks were related not to geographical regions but to actual tasks. The foreign policies of medieval powers were entrusted to such occasional diplomats, prelates, monks, merchants, intellectuals or lay aristocrats, who were naturally expected to be familiar and comply with the legal, traditional, cultural and ceremonial rules of diplomatic protocol. It is far from surprising that in the 13th to 15th centuries the most widespread diplomatic relations were nurtured by the Papal state, which frequently intervened on the behalf of individuals or states as a protector, mediator, arbitrator or intriguer. All of these roles are either exemplified or at least hinted at in the papers which appear in this second medieval issue of the review Világtörténet.
International conference on nationalism
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International conference titled War Nationalisms: Nation- and State-Building Efforts in East Central Europe 1914–1918 was held in Budapest, on 23 June 2015, organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, Institute of History and the Hungarian Historical Association.
Exactly one hundred years ago in 1915, the Great War entered its second year. This period brought the realization that speedy victories were unrealistic forcing all those involved to consider new strategies. The purpose of this international conference is to further scholarly debates on the subject of nationalism among the nations of East Central Europe by looking at the experiences of the war from their respective positions.
New Issue of the Hungarian Historical Review: Everyday Collaboration with the Communist Regimes
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A new issue of The Hungarian Historical Review (www.hunghist.org) has been published entitled "Everyday Collaboration with the Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe". One of the aims of this issue is to develop a new interpretation of ‘collaboration’ with the communist regimes in Eastern Europe by using terms such as ‘cooperation’ and ‘political participation’. The articles focus not only on secret police reports but also on the role of intelligentsia in Eastern Europe, the party bureaucrats, the artists, the Church-state accommodation, and on cooperation between the local citizens and the Soviet troops. The issue seeks to find new directions for a field that is often disrupted by the politically charged atmosphere in which stories of collaboration are revealed. More at www.hunghist.org
International conference about the tributary states of the Ottoman Empire
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On 29–30 May 2015 an international conference will be held in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, Institute of History, about the tributary states of the Ottoman Empire. Papers will address the contacts of Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate, Cossack Ukraine and Dagestan with the peripheries of the empire: the border provinces, as well as other tributaries. The event is convened with the generous support of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. The program of the conference can be read here.
Our new volume: “The Unbearable Weight of Empire”
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The RCH Institute of History has published the newest English language volume by Pál Fodor, Acting Director General of the RCH (and Director of the Institute of History) entitled “The Unbearable Weight of Empire. The Ottomans in Central Europe – A Failed Attempt at Universal Monarchy (1390–1566)”.
Book premiere
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The premiere of the book „1989 – The Final Days of the Communist Regime in East-Central Europe” was organized by the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences on March 3, 2015. The authors: Adam Burakowski Aleksander Gubrynowicz and Paweł Ukielski were invited for the premiere, as their book was published in Hungarian by Rézbong Publishing House in 2014. The book was presented and the discussion was moderated by Miklós Mitrovits, research fellow of the Institute.
International conference on nationalism
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International conference titled ’Next to each other – Against each other’: Czech, Slovak and Hungarian nationalisms during the First World War is held in Miskolc, on 15 April 2015, organized by the University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, Institute for Political Sciences; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, Institute of History; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Miskolc Regional Committee, History and Social Science Committee.
International Workshop in HAS RCH
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The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities hosts the international workshop on social and economic transitions at different scales in modern Central- and Southeast-Europe, in Budapest, on 20th March 2015.
The organizers are the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Humanities and the Collegium Carolinum Munich.
The program of the conference and the abstracts of the lectures can be read here: https://www.pol-int.org/sites/default/files/tagungsprogramm/brosura.pdf
Workshop´s tracks (information from here:http://danube-inco.net/object/event/14828)
Our new Volume: "The Noble Elite in the County of Körös, 1400-1526"
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The RCH Institute of History has published a new volume of the serial Monumenta Hungariae Historica entitled "The Noble Elite in the County of Körös, 1400-1526" (Budapest, 2014. [Magyar Történelmi Emlékek - Értekezések.) by Tamás Pálosfalvi, senior research fellow of our institute. The content of the book can be seen here.
Issues can be bought or ordered from the Institute (postal address: MTA BTK Történettudományi Intézet, 1014 Budapest, Úri u. 53.; telephone: 36/1/224-6700/624; e-mail address:).