The present volume of studies—a joint publication with the National Széchényi Library, Budapest—is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series,... Læs mere
The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal court of... Læs mere
The key values of the Open Society – freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy and respect for knowledge – are increasingly under threat in today’s world.
Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Food Writing & Cookbooks.
Jedrzej Kitowicz was a parish priest in central Poland with a military and worldly past. In his later years, after putting the affairs of his parish in order, he composed a colorful chronicle of all aspects and walks of life under King August III.
Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two.
Six million people visit Prague Castle each year. Here is the story of how this ancient citadel was transformed after World War I from a neglected, run-down relic into the seat of power for independent Czechoslovakia—and the symbolic center of democratic postwar Europe.
Addresses stereotypes in Balkan historiography by examining five principal controversies from the precommunist period. Enables readers to identify common patterns in regional historical writing and stimulate new transnational and comparative approaches to Balkan history.
This collection of fifteen essays addresses the growing body of cultural texts from authors living between languages and cultures in... Læs mere
This monograph provides an analysis of the economic performance and living standard in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, Hungary, and Poland since 1945.
In Avala Is Falling, Jovanovi?'s 1978 breakout success, a young woman challenges societal expectations from teachers, parents, bus drivers, and doctors, with the title Avala referring to... Læs mere
This book-the first of a 3-volume overview of comparative and transnational historiography in Europe-focuses on the complex engagement of various comparative methodological approaches with different transnational and supranational frameworks.