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Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900
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- By Institute of History
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Due to high adult mortality and the custom of remarriage, stepfamilies were a common phenomenon in pre-industrial Europe. Focusing on East Central Europe, a neglected area of Western historiography, this book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life between East Central Europe and Northwestern Europe.
Investigation of ancestral paternal and maternal lineages in the Odorheiu Secuiesc region of Transylvania
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’High Coverage Mitogenomes and Y-Chromosomal Typing Reveal Ancient Lineages in the Modern-Day Székely Population in Romania’, a new study by researchers from the Institute of Archaeogenomics, was published in the journal Genes (MDPI) in early January.
István Széchenyi's correspondence in online database
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In addition to an upcoming printed edition, researchers of the Institute of History of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (BTK TTI) are also making the correspondence of István Széchenyi publicly available in an online database. This modern critical edition, which strives for completeness, makes invaluable source material easily accessible to historians and others interested in the topic.
Stabilitas Loci Benedictini – Centuries of Benedictines
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The ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) organized a scientific conference entitled Stabilitas Loci Benedictini – Centuries of Benedictines in the light of recent research on November 25. At the event held as part of the Hungarian Science Festival the experts presented the main results of two interrelated projects supported by ELKH aimed at exploring the history of the Benedictine Order over the centuries: the Tihany King’s Crypt and the Kings, and the Saints and Monasteries.
RCH researchers published a volume on the Pauline Cantuale of Częstochowa in cooperation with the Hungarian Order of St. Paul the First Hermit
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Cantuale Paulinorum s. XVI – Studies on the Music and Linguistic History of the Pauline Cantuale of Częstochowa was published jointly by the Digital Music Fragmentology Momentum Research Group working at the Department of Early Music History of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Musicology (RCH ZTI) and the Hungarian Order of St. Paul the First Hermit.
Archaeological excavations of the Benedictine monastery in Bakonybél
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The planned excavation works in the area of the Benedictine monastery in Bakonybél carried out as part of the Kings – Saints – Monasteries research program and launched with the support of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH) have been completed. The excavation carried out in the courtyard of the monastery provided a wealth of important information, some of it quite surprising, about the centuries-old history of the monastic community founded by Saint Stephen.
Cultural and genetic interactions of prehistoric populations living between Europe and Asia
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As part of a 202-member international group, researchers from the Institute of Archaeogenomics of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) and the Institute of Biology of ELTE Faculty of Natural Sciences investigated the cultural and genetic relationships of the prehistoric, ancient and medieval populations living in the area forming a bridge between Europe and Asia ‒ the so-called Southern Arc.
Book talk and lectures by Géza Pálffy at Indiana University
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- By Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont
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The monograph of Géza Pálffy, senior research fellow of the Institute of History at the Research Centre for the Humanities was published by Indiana University Press in 2021. The American presentation of the English-language volume titled Hungary between Two Empires 1526-1711 was held on 20 September 2022 at Indiana University in Bloomington, where, after an introductory lecture by Géza Pálffy, Professors Charles Ingrao and Kaya Şahin, experts on the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire, presented the publication - both of them calling it a complex, comprehensive work.
Researchers excavated the remains of the Benedictine monastery founded by Saint Stephen at Zalavár-Vársziget
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With the support of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH) and under the leadership of Miklós Béla Szőke, a scientific advisor with the Institute of Archeology at the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) and Ágnes Ritoók, an archaeologist with the Hungarian National Museum the specialists excavated the remains of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1019 by King Saint Stephen as one of the projects being carried out in cooperation between the two institutions. The results provide a glimpse into significant chapters in the history of the Carolingian and Árpád eras.
The Éva Schmidt Archive
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Researchers of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) and the ELKH Research Centre for Linguistics (NYTK) launched two projects involving the scientific processing of the legacy work of linguist and ethnographer Éva Schmidt in 2022. She was an outstanding researcher of the Obi-Ugric people and languages leaving behind a very rich legacy, however she had placed an embargo on her collections for 20 years before she died. The aim of the researchers involved in the projects is to organize and publish her legacy in the language of the original collections, as well as in Hungarian, English and Russian translations, on a multilingual website.
New milestone in the archaeogenetic research of Hungarian prehistory
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As part of the most recent archaeogenetic research into Hungarian prehistory being conducted at the Institute of Archaeogenomics of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (BTK), experts examined burial sites found along the presumed migration route of the Hungarians from various – archaeological, historical, and geographical – perspectives that could link them to these early Hungarians.
The Correspondence of the Beylerbeys of Buda 1617–1630
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The volume The Correspondence of the Beylerbeys of Buda 1617-1630 is published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Szeged and the Research Centre for the Humanities.
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