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. 

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.

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.

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.