Historical Studies on Central Europe
Datos de la Revista
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2786-0922 / 2786-0930 |
| OpenAlex | S4210235379 |
| MAG | 4210235379 |
| Total de publicaciones | 130 |
| Periodo de cobertura | 2021 - 2025 |
| País | HU |
| Idioma | EN |
| Acceso | Open Access |
| Indexación | Indexada en DOAJ |
| Factor de impacto | 0.038 |
This journal is dedicated to historical studies of Central Europe. It falls under social and cultural history and area studies, which are cognate fields with regular anthropological intersection
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Byzantine Studies and History · Central European and Russian historical studies · Central European national history · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Eurasian Exchange Networks · European history and politics
The Church of the Former Monastery at Curtea de Argeș
This article analyses the church of Curtea de Argeș, a unique architectural monument in former Wallachia, which is a symbol of historical heritage in the entire state of Romania. It is partly an art historical analysis, and partly an intellectual history of the studies, preservation and promotion of the monument in the period of nation-state formation in the late nineteenth century. The monument was at the centre of significant historical events,…
Local Forms of Everyday Life in Hungary in the Light of Eighteenth–Twentieth-Century Archival Sources
The novelty of historical ethnographic, micro-historical, and historical anthropological research focusing on locality is that it does not examine the vertical stratification of society and does not consider the thematic knowledge constructions arising from this. Instead, research approaches the horizontal: local cultural patterns, life worlds, and everyday life; the opinion-forming role of local intellectuals (priests, pastors, teachers, clerks,…
Constructing a Reactionary Modernity
Understanding the modernities constructed in both the practices and the imaginaries of radical right-wing movements in the early 1920s has important implications for historiography. Among other things, it compels historians to adopt a holistic approach to these movements and to the societal and political contexts into which they were embedded and which they often attempted to influence or subvert. Such an approach helps to avoid reductionism, in …
One Story – Several Interpretations
The Yugoslav state was founded on 1 December 1918, when Serbia and Montenegro united with the South Slavic provinces of the disintegrated Austria–Hungary. This state emerged from the unification of South Slavs, each being at a different stage of identity formation. Yugoslavia was destroyed in 1941 during World War II, but it was later re-established as a federal republic, with a strong internal cohesion built on the ideals of “brotherhood and uni…
Nodes, ties, and theories
In the last twenty years, the number of studies applying historical network analysis has grown significantly, in part due to the general “boom” in the digital humanities (although network analysis pre-dates the “digital turn”). Yet how can manifold social interactions be modelled as ties and individuals as nodes in a network for the purpose of quantitative analysis? Many historians approach network analysis in the face of significant amounts of d…
The White International
This paper reconstructs the political worldview and transnational practices of the “White International,” the loose network of counterrevolutionary paramilitary actors operating across Munich, Vienna, and Budapest after 1919. It argues that the Central European upheavals of 1919–1923 constituted a diachronic, ideology-driven civil war in which both left- and right-wing movements perceived the Other as an ontological threat. Drawing on cases from …
The White Terror in a Global Context
The study interprets Hungary’s counterrevolutionary interwar regime at the intersection of paramilitarism in the immediate aftermath of World War I and the rise of the modern racial state. It traces how the failure to prosecute perpetrators of antisemitic and political violence and the enactment of exclusionary laws marked a decisive turn from the Rechtsstaat to the Rassenstaat. Drawing on judicial archives and comparative cases, the essay argues…
When Nations Are Ready for Their Own Architecture
The positive, almost poetic metaphor of “nation-building” has held among the stiff, rational keywords of nationalism studies since the 1950s. This concept was introduced into the field’s discourse by the social scientists who first argued that nations were not created by God but by people themselves. These scholars named the process “nation-building.” According to them, nations had to be built through language standardisation, social mobility, ma…
Leader without Followers
In 1451/52, an opposition of the estates formed in the Duchy of Austria under the leadership of Ulrich von Eitzing against the ruling prince, King Frederick III. The aim of this so-called “Mailberger Bund” was to end Frederick’s guardianship over his cousin Ladislaus Postumus and transfer power to the latter. Although it was Ulrich von Eitzing who motivated a large part of the estates to participate in the Mailberger Bund, he was soon ousted from…
The Change of the System and Myths in Hungarian History in the Twentieth Century
This article is an outsider’s attempt to understand and even to reconsider the multifarious aspects of myths concerning the twentieth-century history of Hungary, created and subsequently dismantled and busted from the change of the system in 1989/1990 to around 2004, the period when myth-building appears to have been a vogue. Most examples come from Ignác Romsics’s 2002 Mítoszok, legendák, tévhitek a 20. századi magyar történelemről [Myths, Legen…
Building an Anti-Semitic Network in Europe
This study analyses Tibor Eckhardt’s presidency of the Association of Awakening Hungarians (Ébredő Magyarok Egyesülete, ÉME) between 1923 and 1927, showing how he intended to position the movement between the far right of the Horthy era and pro-consolidation conservatives dominating the government. The ÉME quickly transformed from a base for white terror into a nationwide mass organisation and a hub for a transnational network. Involving Italian …
The National Style and Crime
This study explores the impact of visual culture and architectural theory on the formation of national identity in early Czechoslovakia, with a particular focus on the interwar period and the debates surrounding the so-called “national style.” It examines how key figures such as Pavel Janák and Karel Teige articulated aesthetic frameworks that either reinforced or challenged nationalist discourse. Janák’s attempts to define a distinctively Czech …
Places of Authentication in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary
Places of authentication (loca credibilia) were legal institutions regarded as specifically Hungarian. Due to the substantial volume of related documents—approximately one-third of the surviving diplomatic sources from medieval Hungary were issued by these institutions—, they have long been at the forefront of historical research. However, thanks to recent technological developments, particularly the DL–DF database of the Hungarian National Archi…
Knowledge Technology
Language – writing – printing – media communication—regulated flow of information: Academic knowledge is about technology. Knowledge is shaped by the regulation of information flows. The discourse of authors is a fundamental part of these regulations, but only a part. Knowledge is not the result of discourse but of organisation. The essay uses the university system, the journal system, the Turing-machine and Lichtenberg’s physics to prove this. I…
Diversity within the Socialist Agriculture
Political Paths of the Croatian Participants at the Prague Congress of the Slavs in 1848
The starting point of this study is the reception of Austroslavism in mid-nineteenth-century Croatian politics, especially during the 1848–1849 revolutionary years. Austroslavism as a political concept aspiring to preserve the Habsburg Monarchy and remodel it into a federation based on the ethnic-linguistic principle, became a major component of the 1848–1849 Croatian political movement. In the second part of the study, the participation of Croat…
Fiume hosszú árnyéka. A városi modernizáció kritikája a 19. század második felében [Fiume’s Long Shadow
Beyond Prague
The return of the anniversary of an event, especially if it is a round year, always seems to be a good occasion to take a fresh look at historical events and bring them to the attention of a wider public, whether at the local or regional level, or on a supraregional or even supranational scale, depending on how vivid the memory is. The texts presented below are selected contributions to a conference entitled 175 Years Congress of the Slavs (1848–…
Metternich, the Slavs and the Habsburg Monarchy, 1842–1849
The prevailing scholarly consensus regarding Prince Metternich’s policy within the framework of the Vienna System of 1815 is that it was hostile and repressive towards the nationalities within the Habsburg Monarchy. However, a re-evaluation of this judgement is provided by the history and circumstances of the Prague Slav Congress of June 1848, as it was here that discussions on the problem of the relationship between national emancipation and sta…
A Story of Victimhood and Sacrifice
Both in nineteenth-century Hungary and in Belgium, historians legitimizing the nation implied the people’s lack of freedom and suffering as a main theme in their narratives. The ‘myth of foreign occupations’ is crucial in their national narrative, as it was developed starting from the late eighteenth century, and with greater strength after the establishment of Belgium as an independent state in 1830. This implies that since the submission by the…
Private Peasants and Socialist Authorities
This article presents the successful grassroots initiative of Slovenian peasants in Juršinci in socialist Slovenia in the 1960s and sheds light on the broader economic and political background. In Slovenia in the 1960s, the rise of a younger, more liberal faction within the Communist Party led to political and economic liberalization. The agricultural cooperatives, which were supposed to attract private peasants to voluntarily collaborate in the …
Development of Socialist Cooperativism in the Slovenian Part of Yugoslavia
The article addresses the changing attitude of the communist authorities towards peasants and private agriculture in the Slovenian part of socialist Yugoslavia. The changing attitude towards peasants and private agriculture, through socialist cooperativism, was based on political, economic, and social discrimination against peasants. After years of intense political, economic, and psychological violence, a period of ideological pragmatism began f…
Unfit, Unwanted, or Superfluous
State agricultural farms (Państwowe Gospodarstwa Rolne or PGR in Polish) had a unique socio-economic status in post-war Poland. Modelled on the Soviet sovkhozes, they were intended to serve as a space for the creation of a new socialist socio-professional group, described in official propaganda as “the most advanced rural segment of the working class.” Although designed as a tool for agricultural modernization, state farms ultimately became space…
Beyond the Socialist Sector
In accordance with Soviet expectations, collectivization took place in Hungary by 1961, as a result of which large-scale production became dominant. The state party did not support for ideological reasons, but also tolerated small-scale production due to economic necessity. However, the literature primarily presents the agricultural history of the Kádár period, focusing on collectivization and established cooperatives, and there is relatively lit…
The Slavic Congress in Slovak Historical Memory
The Slavic Congress of May 1848 was one of the significant milestones in the revolutionary year of 1848. In Slovak historical and journalistic writing, there is a surprising contrast between the evaluation of the congress as the first occasion for the presentation of Slovak demands in an international forum on the one hand, and the modest treatment of the issue in the form of source editions and in-depth analyses on the other. This was due to the…
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Remarks on the Question of the So-Called Monastic Schools of Architecture
The hypothetical interpretation of the beginnings of monastic architecture in Hungary in the eleventh century as corresponding to the Italian origin of the clergy cannot be proved, and the beginning of the dominating role of a three-apsidal, axially organized basilica in Hungary cannot be traced earlier than the last quarter of the eleventh century.The dominance of the type, which has been considered in Hungarian art history since the nineteenth …
Protestant “Athleta Christi” in the Propaganda of the Great Turkish War
The unexpected death of the young Duke Georg Friedrich of Wurttemberg (1657–1685) on 18 October 1685 at the siege of Košice came as tremendous shock to the public of the Holy Roman Empire. The ducal family of Wurttemberg emphasized the principality’s participation and terrible loss in the war against the Ottoman Empire with a spectacular funeral and some carefully composed propaganda of ultimate honor.The principality of Wurttemberg traditionally…
The Small World in Which the Great World Holds its Rehearsal
Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present. [] [T]he scholar who has no inclination to observe the men, the things, or the events around him will perhaps deserve the title [] of a useful antiquarian. He would be wise to renounce all claims to that of a historian. " 1 Although M…
Károly Pál Pálffy and the Dear “Familia”
The Pálffys were among the wealthiest and most influential families in the Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy. The family owed its arrival in the political, economic, and social elite to Miklós Pálffy (1552–1600), the “hero of Győr.” His descendants obtained the highest offices in Hungary—Pál Pálffy (1592–1653) became chief justice and palatine—and filled important positions in the Imperial Court in Vienna (Pál Pálffy became a member of…
New Volumes on Late Antique and Medieval Latin Literature
Vampire Contagion as a Forensic Fact
The present article traces the creation of the peculiar concept of the vampiric contagion or “vampirization” through the work of two official commissions which investigated vampires in Habsburg Serbia in 1732. Even though the importance of the documents prepared by the commissions has been duly recognized in intellectual and cultural histories, a closer look at the narrower historical context yields additional insights into how the figure of the …
(Un)faithful Subjects of (Un)faithful Rulers
This article focuses on the role loyalty played in the relationship between rulers and their subjects in the earliest Central European chronicles, written at the beginning of the twelfth century: Gesta principum Polonorum by Gallus Anonymous, Chronica Boemorum by Cosmas of Prague, and the twelfth-century historiographical tradition of Hungarian Royal court, which survived as a part of the fourteenth-century century compilation called The Illumina…
The Lower Clergy and Popular Culture
The aim of this paper is to examine the role of the Christian lower priesthood in local communities in eighteenth–twentieth century Hungary and Transylvania in cultural transmission. The author intends to map out the complex and changing conditions of the social function, everyday life, and mentality of the priests on the bottom rung of the clerical hierarchy. Particular emphasis is placed on the activity of priests active at the focus points of …
Integrating Genetic, Archaeological, and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Central Europe, 400–900 AD
Few parts of Europe witnessed so many population shifts in a few centuries as the Carpathian Basin in 400–900 CE. In this macro-region along the middle Danube, Pannonians, Romans, Goths, Gepids, Longobards, Avars, Bulgars, Slavs, Franks and many others came and went. This is an intriguing test case for the relationship between ethnic identities constructed in texts, cultural habitus attested in the archaeological record, and genetic profiles that…
Oesterreich ist eben Oesterreich
The study offers a comparative analysis of historical grand récits written during the period of the Austro–Hungarian Empire in the imperial center, Hungary and Bohemia. On the one hand, the study focuses on different strategies of legitimizing the existence of the empire from Austro-German historians and, on the other, on how compatible these historical visions were with those of Hungarian and Czech scholars. Rather than seeing “imperial” and “na…
Folk Songs and Material Culture in Medieval Central Europe
The Finances of the Hungarian Aristocracy in Boom and Recession
Based on primary sources, the present study is intended to reconstruct and analyze the process and levels of indebtedness of some of the outstanding Hungarian aristocratic families possessing large landed properties in the western region of Hungary, mainly in the Transdanubian counties. The author provides exact numerical data on the changes of the registered amounts of credit transactions, the stocks of assets and liabilities of the princely lin…
The Hymnbook of Valentin Triller (Wrocław 1555)
Cultural Encounters on Byzantium’s Northern Frontier, c. AD 500–700
Two Travellers in Europe. An Early-Nineteenth-Century Panorama
Their topic is the same: one can follow two young men in their 'technological' journeys across most of Europe. Through the primary texts we may gain insight into the stops on their journey, which reached the most diverse places on the continent, as well as in Great Britain. The monograph presents the latter from an external point of view, simultaneously analyzing and commenting on the observations of the two characters and placing them into the c…
Explosion in the History of the Nobility in French Historiography
For the past thirty years, the history of the nobility has been one of the fields of social history that have mobilized most researchers. This trend is largely due to the interest shown in new family collections, in correspondence and in private writings. We see this abundant mass of publications as being the reflection of the diversity of the nobility. A first block of authors have isolated noble categories: parliamentary nobility, “second” orde…
The Economic and Ecological Contexts of Urbanization in the Great Hungarian Plain during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
There is abundant research on the history of urbanization in the Carpathian Basin with a special focus on the history of urbanization in the Great Hungarian Plain. Over the past years, there have been investigations concerning climate and historical ecology issues, as well as economic and social history, the results of which enable us to obtain an overview of the complex processes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.It has been confirmed t…
From Semi-Colony to Sub-Empire
This study analyses the historiographical application of two concepts (colony, and empire), the contemporary interpretations of which fundamentally determined judgements about the status of Hungary within the Habsburg Monarchy. Despite the fact that the concept of ‘colony’ as used in the eighteenth century was widely known, the category of the ‘semi-colony’ eventually proved to be unable to describe the conditions of the Austrian–Hungarian world …
Tax Policy of the Fourth Estate
The study deals with questions of the political cooperation of Moravian territorial lord’s towns (the Moravian Fourth Estate) in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. This issue is viewed through the prism of political negotiations about the very high tax burden on the towns. After an outline of the structure of the estate-organized society of the Moravian Margraviate and the role of territorial lord’s—royal and chamber—towns in it, the ar…
And the Habsburg Monarchy as Reflected in Slovak Historiography
With regard to the “long” nineteenth-century history of the Habsburg monarchy, the new generation of post-1989 historians have strengthened research into social history, the history of previously unstudied social classes, the church, nobility, bourgeoisie, and environmental history, as well as the politics of memory.The Czechoslovak centenary increased historians’ interest in the year 1918 and the constitutional changes in the Central European re…
Conservation’s Roots
The Hungarian Atlas of Historic Towns
This article surveys the work carried out in the past two decades on the Hungarian Atlas of Historic Towns in a Central European context. With its more than 550 atlases published in nineteen European countries in the last fifty years, the European Atlas of Historic Towns is one of the most comprehensive collaborative projects in the field of humanities. The countries of East Central Europe could join the project only after the fall of the Iron Cu…
The Beginnings of the Cooperation of Free Royal Towns in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The study presents the possibilities and framework for cooperation between towns in Hungary through the operation of the Town League of Upper Hungary. The cooperation of towns in the Kingdom of Hungary happened primarily through regional relations. At first, the basis for cooperation was provided by common economic interests, but this area broadened considerably in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After the battle of Mohács (1526), the to…
Enlightenment, Modernization, Professional Training
Western historical narratives of the Enlightenment tend to depict the eighteenth-centuryaristocracy as a unique promoter of overall progress, whereas Hungarian historiography is moreinclined to appraise their role according to a deprecating approach based on the criticism of atraditional class system. However, it seems clear that a more balanced judgement of the Hungarianaristocracy should involve a complex analysis. In first place, it is to be d…
A Comparative History of Local Resilience
The classic accounts of the history of the Habsburg Empire emphasized the importance of the conflict of nationalities and alleged that national oppression was the root cause of the Empire’s dissolution in 1918. Based on new results, however, the Nepostrans ERC project has raised two important issues: caution against the idea of all-pervasive nationalisms, and the perspective that the disappearance of Austria–Hungary was not a clear and sharp brea…