March 14, 2017
This monograph by Martin Aurell, professor of Medieval History at the University of Poitiers, contains a great deal of detailed information about the attitudes towards learning and written culture among members of the nobility in different parts of Europe in the Middle Ages.
February 28, 2017
The present volume, edited by Oliver Bange, historian at the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences, and Poul Villaume, professor at the University of Copenhagen, presents a collection of pieces of evidence, which—taken together—lead to an argument that goes against the grain of the established Cold War narrative.
February 28, 2017
The history of the Second Vatican Council and the history of the policy of openness towards the East-Central European Communist countries, that is, the so called Vatican “Ostpolitik,” were looked at until now as two separate topics of research. This work by András Fejérdy, researcher at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that it is not like that, but in reality, the two topics are closely linked.
January 31, 2017
The common critique of media- and ratings-driven politics envisions democracy falling hostage to a popularity contest. By contrast, the following book by Hungarian sociologist Peter Csigo reconceives politics as a speculative Keynesian beauty contest that alienates itself from the popular audience it ceaselessly targets. Political actors unknowingly lean on collective beliefs about the popular expectations they seek to gratify, and thus do not follow popular public opinion as it is, but popular public opinion about popular public opinion.
January 31, 2017
The essays in the book, edited by M. Mark Stolarik, professor of history at the University of Ottawa, compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the divorce and discuss the political, economic and social developments in the new countries. This is the only English-language volume that presents the synoptic findings of leading Czech, Slovak, and North American scholars in the field.




