Self in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy

A new volume edited by Attila Németh and Schmal Dániel entitled Self in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy has been published by Bloomsbury Academic.

The book is available in open access form via this link.

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Presentation by Janka Kovács at the international workshop on patient-focused historical research

On April 4, 2025, Janka Kovács, postdoctoral researcher at our institute, gave a presentation at the hybrid workshop titled First-Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare, organized within the framework of the COST ACTION 22159 National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850–2000 project. 

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Lecture by Eszter Bánffy at the ATES Silk Road Forum

Eszter Bánffy, Research Professor at the Institute of Archaeology (HUN-REN RCH) delivered a presentation at the ATES Silk Road Forum on March 26, focusing on the Neolithic transition (6000–5350 cal BC) between Southeastern and Central Europe, and offering new perspectives based on recent research.

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Study by Pál Ács in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation

The Oxford University Press has published a study by Pál Ács, Institute Senior, Reserch Professor at the Institute of History on early Hungarian Bible translations, entitled Translating the Hungarian Protestant Bible.

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Kings, Saints, Monasteries – Traveling Exhibition at the Archabbey of Pannonhalma

The traveling exhibition presenting the "Kings, Saints, Monasteries" project of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities arrived in Pannonhalma on February 14, 2025.

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Habsburg Diplomats at the Hungarian–Bohemian Royal Court (1521–1526) I–II.

This sourcebook contains the diplomatic correspondence of the envoys who stayed at the court of Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, between the summer of 1521 and the beginning of 1526, on behalf of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Habsburg and his brother, Archduke Ferdinand I.

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On Bartók, Folk Music, and Music History – Essays in Honor of Vera Lampert

Published by the Institute for Musicology of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, edited by Viola Biró and László Vikárius, the volume On Bartók, Folk Music, Music History – Essays in Honor of Vera Lampert was published.

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Otto Neurath in Britain

Otto Neurath in Britain is a new monograph by Ádám Tamás Tuboly, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, published by Cambridge University Press. The volume is the first to cover the last years of the life of the Austrian polymath Otto Neurath in his emigration to England.

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Austrian-Hungarian research cooperation

Péter Apor, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History, has been awarded funding for Austrian-Hungarian research cooperation through a grant announced by the National Research, Development, and Innovation Office.

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History Writing and Historians in Hungary of the Árpáds

In the Arpadiana XVIII. volume the author, László Veszprémy offers a concise overview of the most important chapters of Latin historiography in Hungary from the time of the conversion to Latin Christianity until the mid-13th century.

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East Goes West – Kavalierstours of Hungarian Aristocrats in the Seventeenth Century

The Kavalierstour was part of many young noblemen’s studies in early modern Europe or represented its final stage. Its unparalleled popularity shows that it was a suitable reflection of the changes that began in the sixteenth century and repositioned the place of the high nobility in society and the courts of the aristocracy, the Church, and the monarchs.

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Ernst von Dohnányi's Selected Writings and Interviews

A book on the life's work of Ernő Dohnányi (1877-1960) has been published by Oxford University Press, edited by James A. Grymes, Professor at the University of North Carolina and Veronika Kusz, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Musicology, HUN-REN RCH.

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