The aim of this book is to present the history and activity of the Hospi-tallers in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary (c.1150–1543) based on thorough research of primary sources both kept in Hungary and abroad.

A HUN-REN BTK Irodalomtudományi Intézet Martinkó András-díját ebben az évben S. Laczkó András, a PTE BTK Klasszikus Irodalomtörténeti és Összehasonlító Irodalomtudományi Tanszék adjunktusa érdemelte ki A reklám helye. A védegyleti agitáció és Garay János Iparvédegyleti dala című tanulmányáért.

The time limits of the volume are marked by a fundamentally short historical period, the two decades of the half-century history of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, when the economic catch-up of Transylvania and the clarification of the presence of Hungarian culture were intertwined in many cases. 

Szabolcs László, research fellow at the Institute of History, HUN-REN RCH participated in the conference entitled Dis-/Сonnecting the World: Subjectivities, Networks and Transcultural Encounters across Cold War Boundaries, organized at Bielefeld University on October 5-6.

On September 26, Leslie Waters, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, gave a lecture at the Institute of History on her newly published book, Borders on the Move: Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938–1948.

From July 31 to August 4, 2023, the Colburn School in Los Angeles hosted the 50th anniversary conference of the International Kodály Society. Two members of the Institute for Musicology of the HUN-REN RCH, Anna Dalos and János Sipos, participated in the event.

Heléna Huhák, a research fellow of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre RCH Institute of History, participated in the workshop Confronting the Nazi Genocide: New Directions in Holocaust Studies, held at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, September 7-8, 2023.

Janka Kovács, a postdoctoral research fellow at our institute, participated in the conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHH), which took place from 30 August to 2 September 2023, and this year focused on: Crisis in Health and Medicine.

On 2 September 2023 Gábor Demeter, senior research fellow of our institute and Péter Földvári, visiting research professor gave a lecture at the 15th European Historical Economics Society (EHES) Conference at the University of Vienna.

A new special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews edited by Adam Tamas Tuboly (RCH Institute of Philosophy) and Emil Toescu (University of Birmingham, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine) has been released. The volume is about Critical Perspectives on Science aimed at early career researchers and scientists.

An important Ottoman source has become available to researchers as part of the RCH’s 21st-Century Studies in Humanities series. The Mufassal Tahrir Defteri of the Sanjak of Segedin (1578) is the work of Miklós Fóti, junior research fellow at the Institute of History.

In a recent digitization project at the Institute of Art History, three-dimensional digital models of late medieval bone saddles were created using photogrammetry. The models were made by Virág Somogyvári, Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Art History.