Le bassin des Carpates avant l’arrivée des Hongrois

The common link between these two books is a stated Hungarian perspective on what is truly in need of a transnational viewpoint. The very title of the first book expresses this (the Carpathian Basin before the arrival of the Hungarians). Moreover, even though the year 895 is the traditional date of the Hungarian conquest which features in national narratives, it is untenable as a scholarly concept. While the preface clarifies that this is the first volume in a series on the history of Hungary, it is also a stand-alone book, giving the very awkward impression of viewing the world through a Hungarian looking-glass for an international audience; in a context where rabid nationalism is on the rise as government policy, this is quite unfortunate. In the second case, the subject of the biography, Coloman himself, was anything but defined by national frameworks: a prince of the Hungarian Árpád dynasty, he

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