scholarly journals The Hungarian Atlas of Historic Towns

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-274
Author(s):  
Katalin Szende
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Project Phases

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 Curtain, and Hungary published its first atlas as late as 2010. In four subsequent project phases, the Hungarian atlas team has been working on nineteen atlases of eighteen towns, out of which eight have been published so far. The editors follow the standards set by the International Commission for the History of Towns and have adopted best practices represented by the Austrian, Polish and Irish atlas series. In addition to describing the source basis and the main methodological concerns, the article highlights examples of comparative urban research for which the atlases offer an unparalleled potential. The article also advocates a more extensive use of this exceptional resource.

Some Reflections on the Habsburg Empire and Its Legacy in the Nationalities Question

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon Wank
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Positive Statements ◽  
History Of ◽  
East Central European

The startling events of the last five years in Eastern Europe have led to a surprising nostalgia for the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and Emperor Francis Joseph in the lands of the former Habsburg Empire. Politicians and journalists in Europe and America now compare the old empire to the disoriented East Central Europe of today and hold up the former as a positive model for a supranational organization. The current wave of nostalgia has been helped along by some recent historical works that certainly were not written for that purpose, but that contain generous assessments of the monarchy's positive qualities. For example, István Deák, in his highly acclaimed book,Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848–1918, strongly recommends that the “Habsburg experiment” in supranational organization be reexamined: “I am convinced that we can find here a positive lesson while the post-1918 history of the central and east central European nation-states can only show US what to avoid.” Similar positive statements can be found in the recently published works of Alan Sked, Barbara Jelavich, and F. R. Bridge.

The Cold War and East-Central Europe,1945–1989

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-214
Author(s):  
Michael Kraus ◽  
Anna M. Cienciala ◽  
Margaret K. Gnoinska ◽  
Douglas Selvage ◽  
Molly Pucci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

Eight experts on the history of East-Central Europe offer commentaries about the book Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1990, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana. The commentators discuss the main contributions of the book and highlight the important questions it raises as well as the issues requiring further research.

From Nowhere to “Partyslava”

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 299-320
Author(s):  
Peter Barrer
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Past ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
English Speaking

Over the past two decades, Prague has cemented itself as a tourist hotspot in the popular imagination. But what of Bratislava, long considered a “poor cousin” to Prague? What images of Bratislava have foreign publics been presented with since the fall of communism in East-Central Europe and the establishment of the Slovak Republic? Building on previous research which has examined visitors’ historical perceptions of Bratislava primarily from a German-speaking perspective, this paper seeks to map the development of Bratislava’s image in media texts from English-speaking countries since 1989 by focusing on two central motifs: Bratislava as a post-communist space and Bratislava as a locus of touristic pleasures (“Partyslava”). The images presented herein will be evaluated and contrasted with local descriptions of Bratislava, thus offering a cross-cultural perspective which will contribute to the wider discussion of popular perceptions of post-communist urban spaces in East-Central Europe.

The Past, Present, and Future of Comparative History in East Central Europe and Beyond

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 328-344
Author(s):  
Wendy Bracewell ◽  
Ulf Brunnbauer ◽  
Diana Mishkova ◽  
Joachim von Puttkamer ◽  
Philipp Ther
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals Jagellonian Ledgers as Sources for Watermark Research and Paper History Studies: The First Papermills of East-Central Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 324-340
Author(s):  
Krisztina Rábai
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Paper Mills ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Paper Making ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Different Parts

This study is based on the analysis of the paper and the text of royal and princely accounts in which scribes registered the everyday incomes and expenditures of four Jagiellonian courts, located in different parts of East-Central Europe around the turn of the 15th and 16th-century. The period covers the establishment and the very first years of paper mills in Silesia and the Polish Kingdom. Regarding the lack of archival sources preserving the foundation and running of these mills, the cradles of paper-making in East-Central Europe, one should use many different and quite laconic written sources to shed light upon these revolutionary years. Although accounts could preserve mentions of purchasing, trading and using paper, in most cases the textual information is not adequate to reconstruct a detailed and clear image of paper producing; researchers should examine the medium of writing - the paper - itself. Instead of the investigation of single sheets, folded papers, small notebooks and bound books such as accounts proved to be more useful. One can compare the sheets of the volumes and find those traces which lead to the paper mills, the places of their origin. Through the detailed examination of one especially complex and interesting ledger from the courts of Prince Sigismund, the author attempts to demonstrate the opportunities lay in watermark studies. Furthermore, the article purposes to reflect on the huge hiatus clearly perceptible on the field of watermark research and paper history in East-Central Europe and the necessity of developing a database of watermarks reflecting on the history of paper-making in this region. 

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