Ghosts from the Bottle (Renáta Skorka) 553
Studies
Philippe Buc: The Imprint of the Middle Age: The Holy War 557
Laura Fábián: The Biblical Model of Louis IX: King Solomon 579
János Makai: The Relations of Vladimir–Suzdal and Kiev at the Turn of the 12th–13th Centuries 605
Renáta Skorka: The Chronology of Diplomatic Relations between the Habsburgs and the Hungarian Angevins during the Reign of Charles IV of Luxemburg 631
Péter E. Kovács: The Sienese Grants of King Sigismund of Luxemburg 661
Echo
Veronika Eszik: Augustus, First Person Singular 679
Marianne Sághy: The Aachen Exhibitions Commemorating Charlemagne 1200 685
Bence Péterfi : The Emperor of Bavarians 691
Book Reviews
Illegal Road, Corpse Road, Middle Road (Viktória Kovács–Boglárka Weisz) 697
A Hungarian Legion against the South Italian Brigandage. Documents from the Italian Military Archives (Petra Hamerli) 703
The Agony of an Empire. Austro–Hungarian Monarchy, 1914–1920 (Veronika Eszik) 706
World War I: Controversies, Reinterpretations (Klára Jakó) 711
Transforming Rural Societies. Agrarianism in East Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (János Fritz) 716
STUDIES
László Solymosi: The Pilgrimage of Hungarian Prelates to England in 1220 527
István Kenyeres: The Finances and Military Expenses of the Habsburg Monarchy and Hungary from the Middle of the 16th Century to the First Third of the 17th Century 541
Péter Szabó : The Role of the Mask and the Costume in Early Modern Hungary 569
Gergely Tóth: Critique of Hungarian Historiography and a Program for its Renewal from the 1740s. Mátyás Bél and the Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum 593
Zoltán Fónagy: Correspondence in 19th-Century Hungary 619
Judit Klement: Letter-writing Enterprises. The Letter as a Genre in the Everyday Activity of Enterprises in the Second Half of the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century 639
REVIEW ARTICLES 657
COMMEMORATION 675
Studies
Gábor Demeter: Preserving Power and Strategies of Survival in the Transforming Balkans 393
Róbert Fiziker: The Austrian Trianon. The Peace Treaty of St. Germain 429
Ambrus Miskolczy: Long Live Death? The Romanian Iron Guardists’ Mission to Spain and the Ritual Burials 451
Gábor Lagzi: Authoritarian Regimes in the Baltic Area during the Interwar Period: Similarities and Diff erences 477
Artur Patek: Jewish Refugees in Mauritius (1940–1945) 499
Zoltán Sz. Bíró: Willing Collaborators. Refl ections on a Russian Documentary Collection 515
Miklós Mitrovits: Husák and Kádár. Czechoslovakian–Hungarian Relationships between Appeasement and Confl ict (1968–1989) 531
Gergely Egedy: The British Legacy in the United States – Kirk’s Assessments 549
Review
Czech Franciscans in the Late Middle Ages (Antal Molnár) 563
Succession to the Throne and Divine Right in Russia under Peter the Great (György Bebesi) 568
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe (Marianna Gergely) 573
A New Handbook of Population Transfers and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe (Bálint Kovács) 576
Slovakia during the Interwar Period (Anita Elek) 578
The Asian Century? Modernisation and Contradictions of an Emerging Area. Introductory Thoughts to a Special Issue (Ildikó Farkas) 161
Studies
Ildikó Farkas: The Antecedents of Japanese Modernization 165
Attila Vargha: Japanese Americans – A Historical Overview. From the Second Half of the 19th Century to 1945 195
Péter Vámos: “We Are Waging a Consistent, Uncompromising Struggle Against Maoism.” Coordinated Research on Modern China and Hungarian Sinology 227
Gergely Salát: “Practice” vs. “Two Whatevers”. The Political Context of Chinese Reforms 259
Mózes Csoma: The Issue of Modernity on the Korean Peninsula 279
Attila Gergely: Identities and Interstate Relations in East Asia – The China-Japan-Korea Complex 289
Zsolt Szilágyi: The Beginnings of the Modern Mongolian State: The Quest for Independence in the Early 20th Century 333
Róbert Balogh: Landscape of War. Rationing and Effi ciency: The World War II in an Indian Industrial Town 365
Review
Labour Force Market, Big Company and Kitty Canton in the British Empire (Róbert Balogh) 381
Vietnam at War (Ferenc Dávid) 384
Studies
Zsolt Palotás: Christian Slaves in Barbaricum. Sources on the History of the Muslim Piracy in the 16th–18th Centuries 1
László J. Nagy: Tunisia in the 1920s. The Birth of the National Movement 19
Péter Ákos Ferwagner: Jacques Chevallier and the Algerians Muslims 39
Gyula Gazdik: Nasser’s Choices in Foreign Policy and the Suez Crisis 53
Zoltán Prantner: The Yemeni Mission of the Socialist Countries and the United Arab Republic, 1962–1967 73
Anikó Farkas: Anwar Sadat’s Visit to Jerusalem 97
Gábor Fodor: The Russian Role in the Armenian National Awakening, 1878–1914 113
Zoltán Egeresi: Turkish Nation Building during the Atatürk Era 125
Review
Subjective Memoirs of the Arab History (László J. Nagy) 145
Jacques Chevalier, the Man Who Tried to Avoid the Algerian War (Péter Ákos Ferwagner) 152
STUDIES
Gábor Mikó: Did Otto, the son of Saint Stephen, ever live? 1
Attila Tózsa-Rigó: Capitalist Enterprising Companies in the Late Middle Ages and the First Half of the Early Modern Era (With a Special Regard to the Working
Attila Tózsa-Rigó: Capitalist Enterprising Companies in the Late Middle Ages and the First Half of the Early Modern Era (With a Special Regard to the WorkingMechanism of Southern German Commercial Capital) 23
Georg B. Michels: On the History of the 1674 Pozsony Preacher Trial. Protestant Pastors Resisting the Violent Counter-Reformation 55
Stefano Bottoni: Reluctant spies. The Hungarian state security and Romania, 1975–1989 79
REVIEW ARTICLES 145
Studies
Gábor Barabás: Delegated Papal Jurisdiction in Hungary from the Origins to the Middle of the 13th Century 175
György Kövér: The Economic History of the Hungarian Review of Economic History (1894–1906): an Institutional Approach and Historiography 201
Imre Tóth: The Road of Kálmán Kánya to the Leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 225
Workshop
Tibor Neumann: The Beginnings of the Voevode of Transylvania’s Right of Donation 261
Péter Kasza: „… so that the king of Poland may do some kind of peace between you” The Anatomy of the Talks of Poznań in 1530 271
András Fejérdy: Strategies Applied by the Holy See in order to Fill the Hungarian Episcopal Sees between 1945 and 1964 291
Debate
On the activities of Hungarian occupation troops in the Soviet Union 307
Review Articles 341
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