The Historical Research on the Árpád Era – From the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867) to the Present Day a monograph in English by Gábor Thoroczkay, Associate Professor of the Department of Medieval History at ELTE, has been published as the 17th volume of the Arpadiana series.
In unprecedented detail, this monograph presents the historiography of the first three hundred years of Hungarian history, the Christian kingdom of the Árpáds (1000–1301). Given that excellent summaries have been penned in that regard, the volume omits the historical research on Hungarian prehistory and the conquest period. The most highlighted topics include the emergence and development of Hungarian Byzantinology, and the research on the turbulent history of the Holy Crown. The selected timeframe extends over the period from the beginning of the professional historiography in Hungary (the last third of the 19th century) up to the present time.
Alongside the institutional system (research institutes, universities), the major source publications, manuals, and historiographical methods (positivism, Geistesgeschichte, Marxism, scientific historiography), the work presents in detail the careers of the leading researchers, from Gyula Pauler and his contemporaries to Attila Zsoldos and today’s other significant historians. The volume also discusses the long line of masters and disciples and provides a broad outline of the political context. Indeed, in one way or another, the latter has had a major influence on the study of the Árpád era.
