1956 as Refugee Crisis: New Perspectives (Stefano Bottoni) 331

Studies
James P. Niessen: The Culture of Welcome and the January, 1957 Austrian Refugee Quota Proposal 337
Gusztáv D. Kecskés: The NATO and the 1956 Hungarian Refugees 357
András Nagy: The Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary, 1957–1958: Bang-Jensen’s Struggle with Eastern Spies and Western Bureaucrats 373
Nóra Deák: Operation Mercy: The (Not Impossible) Hungarian Refugee Resettlement Mission in the United States 397
Tiphaine Robert: The Return of 1956 Hungarian Refugees from Switzerland: Reasons and Interpretations of Returning Home in Propaganda Warfare 413
Attila Kovács: Yugoslavia and the 1956 Hungarian Refugee Crisis 433
András Lénárt: The Process of Growing up and Integration of the 1956 Emigrant Students into the Austrian Society 451
Balázs Balogh: The Social Integration of the Refugees of the 1956 Revolution in the USA 469

Book Reviews
Diplomatic Relations between Hungary and the Holy See, 1920–2015 (Petra Hamerli) 485
Cultural Diplomacy amid Diplomatic Tensions: France in Central and Eastern Europe, 1936‒1940, 1944‒1951 (Gusztáv D. Kecskés) 490
Studies from the Workshop of Russistics (Mária Bodor) 495

Confi nes and Points of Adjustment 335

Studies
László Pósán: Chivalric Culture in Late Medieval Lithuania 337
Dániel Vincze: The News of the Recapturing Wars against the Turks and New England 347
Endre Sashalmi: Political Theology and the Emergence of Female Personifi cations of Russia in Visual Sources from a European Perspective: The Petrine Period as a Watershed 373
Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño: From Conservation to Dismembering: Italian Provinces and Spanish Monarchy, 1665–1713 395
José Emilio Burucúa – Fabián Alejandro Campagne: The Dutch Political Model in the Río de la Plata Revolution 429
Radoslav Raspopović: Dilemmas in Montenegrin Foreign Policy from the Second Half of the 19th Century to the World War I 443
Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics: The Birth of the First Hungarian–Albanian Dictionary 467
László Bernát Veszprémy: Menachem Begin’s Legendary Life: Questions about the Early Career of the First Right-Wing Prime Minister of Israel, 1913–1948 481

Echo
István Tringli: Three German Exhibitions on the Reformation: Stralsund ‒ Rostock ‒ Berlin 497

Against the Normans and the Ottomans: The Possibilities of Cooperation and Defence (Tibor Martí) 153

Studies
László Gálffy: A River Lined Expansion: Scandinavians on the Loire from the 840’s to the Beginning of the 10th Century 157
Miguel Fernando Gómez Vozmediano: The Wars in Hungary and the Career of a Spanish Noble of Extremadura: Pedro Barrantes Maldonado, Soldier and Chronicler (1510–1578) 191
István Szászdi: Castilian Support in the Fight against the Turks: Contributions to the History of the Military Relations between Spain and Hungary in the 16th Century 219
Ildikó Gausz: Mosaics to the Image of Duke of Mercoeur: The Political Career of Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, 1582–1598 235
Barnabás Guitman – Zoltán Korpás – Ferenc Tóth – János B. Szabó: The International Background of the Ottoman War in Hungary, 1547–1556 253

Workshop
Brigitta Szanka: From Calais to Konstanz: Communication Network of King Sigismund’s Travel in 1416–1417 295

Book Reviews
From Exoticism to Modernity: A Century of French Voyage in Hungary, 1818–1910 (Ferenc Tóth) 317
Another Italy: Fiume, 1724–1924 (Ágnes Ordasi) 320

Between Two Superpowers: Attempts to Expand Room for Manoeuvre during the Cold War (László Bíró) 327

Studies
Tamás Péter Baranyi: Détente in the Historiography of the Cold War 331
Béla Háda: From Balancing to Pro-Soviet Orientation: The Evolution of India’s Policy towards the Superpowers, 1947–1971 357
Iván Miklós Szegő: Five Challenges of Finnish History and Five Responses of the Finnish Elite, 1945–1990 389
Kinga Dévényi: Coups d’État and Revolutions in the Arab World in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A Paradigmatic Analysis 423

Workshop
Tamás Dudlák: The Historical Role of the Assassination at Sarajevo: A Counterfactual Analysis of the Causes of World War I 467

Book Reviews
Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400–1800 (Dalma Bódai) 485
A History of Japanese–Hungarian Relations, 1869–1913 (István Koósz) 488
Hungary and the Arab World, 1947–1989 (Ágnes Kaczúr) 491
Hungarians in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1941: Articles, Accounts, Situation Reports on the Life of the Hungarian Minority (László Bíró) 493

Far Away yet Near: The Chances of European Civilization in the Colonial World 499

Studies
Tamás Túróczi: The Limits of the Spanish Expansion in Japan, 1543–1640 503
María del Mar Muñoz González: The Role of the Pitahaya, the “Dragon Fruit” at the Time of the Jesuit Missions in Lower California Peninsula, 1697–1768 527
Tibor Monostori: The Ultimate Conquest of the New World: La Araucana in Spain 547
Mónika Edina Bán: Emblems and Other Wittinesses in Mexican Baroque Literature: Interaction between Society and Culture in 16th–17th Century Mexico 571
Gábor Szabó-Zsoldos: Tendencies of Great Britain’s South African Colonial Policy, 1846−1881 585
Viktória Semsey: An Argentine Scholar in Europe and Latin America 611

Echo
Magdolna Szilágyi: Travelling in the Name of Saint Martin: Pilgrimage, Cultural Tourism, Cultural Heritage Management 629

Book Reviews
How was Romania „Romanianized”? (Klára Jakó) 641
The Written Sources of a Great Investment (Bence Péterfi ) 652
Colonialization as a Historical Phenomenon (Gábor Gyóni) 655

Crossroads of Cultures in the Hungarian Middle Ages (Márta Font) 1

Studies
Gábor Barabás: Heretics, Pirates and Legates: The Bosnian Heresy, the Hungarian Kingdom and the Popes at the Outset of the 13th Century 5
Márta Font: The Elite Supporting Hungarian Rule in Galicia 33
Attila Zsoldos: A Sienese Goldsmith as Alispán of Szepes: Italians in the Service of the Druget Palatines 53
Norbert C. Tóth: Foreigners in the Hungarian Chapters (1375–1424) 75
Renáta Skorka: The Heir of the „Greedy Wolf”: A Kőszegi in the Service of the Habsburg Dukes 93
Attila Pfeiff er: The Localization Issues of the Banate of Macsó and the Fortress of Macsó in Hungarian and Serbian Historiography 125

Workshop
Armando Nuzzo: Italo–Hungarian Diplomatic Relations (1301–1550): The Vestigia Project 139

Book Reviews
Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages (István Kádas) 153
Saint Martin of Tours and Hungary (Dorottya Uhrin) 158
A History of Cumans (Tamás Péderi) 161

From Assyria to Syria: In Network of Empires 165

Studies
Zoltán Pálfi : Northern Syria and the Old Assyrian Trade 169
András Bácskay: Incantations and Amulets against Lamaštu in Ancient Mesopotamia 193
Anna Judit Tóth: Maiuma – a Syriac festival in the Late Antiquity 215
Miklós Sárközy: The Šahrwarāz Dynasty of Syria and Egypt in the Early 7th Century 235
Máté Horváth: Syria between Abbasid and Mamluk Rule 249
Zsuzsanna Zsidai: The Syrian Coastal Region after the Crusades 267
Kinga Dévényi: Jihad in Islam: An Obligation for the Individual or for the Community? 297

Book Reviews
Social and Economic Transformations from the End of the 18th Century to the Mid-20th Century: Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia (Ádám Balogh) 325
The Holy Roman Empire as a Network of Princes (Veronika Rudolf) 330

Studies

Marianne Sághy – Izsák Baán OSB: From Thebes to the Bakony: The Cult of Saint Maurice and his Companions in Europe (4th–21th Century) 175
Jean-Michel Carrié: Thebans in the West? Military History and Hagiography 197
David Woods: The Origin of the Legend of Maurice and the Theban Legion 229
Karla Pollmann: Poetry and Suffering: Metrical Paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons’ Passio Acaunensium Martyrum 241
Frederick S. Paxton: Liturgy and Healing in an Early Mediveal Saint’s Cult: The Mass in Honore Sancti Sigismundi for the Cure of Fevers 263
Karen Blough: The Lance of Saint Maurice as a Component of the Early Ottonian Campaign against Paganism 287
Edina Bozóky: The Legend of Saint Maurice’ Lance according to Gottfried of Viterbo 311
Beat Näf: How Did Saint Maurice Become the Patron Saint of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation? 329
Gude Suckale-Redlefsen: The Cult of Saint Maurice, the Black Soldier in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 339

Memory
Eucherius of Lyon: Passio Acaunensium Martyrum 353

Book Reviews
Education and Culture in the Barbarian West: From the Sixth through the Eighth Century (Veronika Novák) 359
Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa (Márton Tősér) 362
The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia (Laura Fábián) 367