The MECERN Book Corner
Here, you can find all the information about our book presentations. Enjoy!
Book Corner: April 1, 2025
Hosted by Dušan Zupka (Comenius University, Bratislava)
Éloïse Adde (Central European University, Vienna) presents:
- Daniela Dvořáková: Elisabeth of Luxembourg (1409-1442). A Hungarian Queen of the 15th Century, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2025.
Attila Bárány (University of Debrecen) presents:
Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West (Volume 2: Central and Eastern Europe), ed. by Radosław Kotecki, Jacek Maciejewski, and Gregory Leighton, Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Florin Curta (University of Florida) presents:
- Power in Numbers: State Formation and Christianization on the Eastern Edge of Europe, ed. by Mária Vargha and Ivo Štefan, Turnhout: Brepols, 2024.
Please use the following zoom-link:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/97248646090?pwd=SUlMdHhUdjQ4dkFDWHdMNGxvaDNOdz09
Book Corner: March 4, 2025
Hosted by Antonín Kalous (Palacký University Olomouc)
Piotr S. Górecki (University of California, Riverside) presented:
- Marxism and Medieval Studies. Marxist Historiography in East Central Europe, ed. by Martin Nodl, Piotr Węcowski, and Dušan Zupka, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024.
Tomáš Somer (Palacký University Olomouc) presented:
- Petr Hrubý: Silver Mining in the Kingdom of Bohemia (13th–14th Centuries), Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024.
Martin Dekarli (University of Hradec Králové) presented:
- Martin Pjecha: Theo-politics of the Hussite Movement: From Reform to Revolution, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024.
Book Corner: February 4, 2025
Hosted by Beata Możejko (University of Gdansk)
Paul Knoll (University of Southern California) presented:
- Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe. Social, Ruling and Religious Transformations, ed. by Dušan Zupka, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2025.
Ewelina Kaczor (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) presented:
- Krzysztof Bracha: Bitwa i pamięć. Święto wiktorii pod Grunwaldem 1410 roku w kaznodziejstwie Polski doby Jagiellońskiej (XV – pocz. XVI w.), Warsaw: Werset, 2024.
Kacper Panek (University of Gdańsk) presented:
Viele Welten des Ostseeraumes: Politischer, wirtschaftlicher und kultureller Austausch vom Hochmittelalter bis zum Beginn der Neuzeit. [Many Worlds of the Baltic Sea Region: Political, Economic and Cultural Exchange from the High Middle Ages to the Beginning of Modern Times], ed. by Paul Srodecki and Ludwig Steindorff, Marburg: Verlag Herder-Institut 2024.
Book Corner: January 7, 2025
Dániel Bagi (Eötvös Loránd University) presented:
- Martin Wihoda: The Making of Medieval Central Europe. Power and Political Prerequisites for the First Westernization, 791–1122, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2024.
Dániel Bácsatyai (HUN-REN RCH Institute of History) presented:
- László Veszprémy: History Writing and Historians in Hungary of the Árpáds, Budapest: HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, 2024.
Olga Kalashnikova (University of Turin) presented:
Dina Khapaeva: Putin’s Dark Ages. Political Medievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia, London/New York: Routledge, 2024.
Book Corner: December 3, 2024
Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University) presented:
- Nora Berend: Stephen I, the First Christian King of Hungary. From Medieval Myth to Modern Legend,
Oxford University Press, 2024.
Paweł Kras (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) presented:
- Adam Kozak: Księga sądowa gnieźnieńskich wikariuszy generalnych Sędka z Czechla i Jana z Brzóstkowa (1449–1453, 1455). Studium źródłoznawcze i edycja krytyczna [= A Court Register Kept by Sędek z Czechla and Jan z Brzóstkowa, Vicars General of Gniezno (1449–1453, 1455). A Critical Source Study and Critical Edition], Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne i Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk: Poznań 2023.
Daria Ageeva (Central European University) presented:
- Fabian Kümmeler: Korčula. Ländliche Lebenswelten und Gemeinschaften im venezianischen Dalmatien (1420-1499) Oldenbourg: De Gruyter 2021.
Book Corner: November 5, 2024
Hosted by Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University)
Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) presented:
- Petr Balcárek: Byzantium in the Czech Lands (4th–16th centuries). Historical and art historical perspectives, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023.
Piotr Gorecki (University of California) presented:
Józef Dobosz: The Church and Cistercians in Medieval Poland. Foundations, Documents, People, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.
Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University) presented:
Alice Isabella Sullivan: Europe’s Eastern Christian Frontier, Amsterdam: Arc Humanities Press, 2024.
Book Corner: October 1, 2024
The motto of this Book Corner was: “East and West: Cultural Exchange across Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe” (Host: Julia Verkholantsev (University of Pennsylvenia))
Felicitas Schmieder (FernUniversität in Hagen) presented:
- Nicola Di Cosmo / Lorenzo Pubblici: Venezia e i Mongoli. Commercio e diplomazia sulle vie della seta nel medioevo, Rome: Viella, 2022.
Tomislav Matić (Croatian Institute of History) presented:
- Katalin Prajda: Italy and Hungary in the Early Renaissance. Cultural Exchanges and Social Networks, Bibliotheca Academiae Hungariae – Roma. Studia, 10, Rome: Viella, 2023.
Václav Zheng (Johns Hopkins University) presented:
- Tomasz Grusiecki: Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania, Manchester University Press, 2023.
Book Corner: May 7, 2024
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) presented:
- Gustavs Strenga: Remembering the Dead. Collective Memory and Commemoration in Late Medieval Livonia, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.
Zsolt Hunyadi (University of Szeged) presented:
- Gábor Barabás: Delegated Papal Jurisdiction in Arpadian Hungary. Bishops – Provosts – Papal Chaplains, Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, 2023.
Gábor Barabás (University of Pécs) presented:
- Zsolt Hunyadi / András Ribi: The Knights Hospitaller in Medieval Hungary, Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, 2023.
Book Corner: April 2, 2024
Csete Katona (University of Debrecen) presented:
- The Ruling Families of Rus. Clan, Family and Kingdom, ed. by Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski, London: Reaktion Books 2023.
József Laszlovszky (Central European University) presented:
- A United Europe of Things. Portable Material Culture across Medieval Europe, ed. by Jakub Sawicki, Michael Lewis, and Mária Vargha, Berlin: Springer, 2023.
Book Corner: March 5, 2024
Máté Vas (Eötvös Loránd University) presented:
- Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century, ed. by Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisová, Václav Žůrek, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2024.
Paul Knoll (University of Southern California) presented:
- Gregory Leighton: Ideology and Holy Landscape in the Baltic Crusades, Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2022.
Anna Adamska (University of Utrecht) presented:
- Jakub Niedźwiedź: Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Vilnius, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023.
Book Corner: February 6, 2024
Éloïse Adde (Central European University) presented:
- Eduard Mühle: Slavs in the Middle Ages Between Idea and Reality, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023.
Bernát Rácz (Central European University) presented:
- Mária Vargha: Modelling Christianisation. A Geospatial Analysis of the Archaeological Data on the Rural Church Network of Hungary in the 11th-12th Centuries, Oxford: Archaeopress – Archaeolingua, 2022.
Suzana Simon (Croatian Academy of Sciences) and Teodora Artimon (Trivent Publishing House) presented:
- Jonathan Harris: Theosis, Budapest: Trivent Publishing, 2023.
Book Corner: December 5, 2023
Trpimir Vedriš (University of Zagreb) presented:
- Danijel Džino: Early Medieval Hum and Bosnia, ca. 450-1200. Beyond Myths, London: Routledge, 2023.
András Vadas (Eötvös Loránd University) presented:
- Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes.
East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective,
ed. by Michaela Antonín Malaníková, Beata Możejko, and Martin Nodl, London: Routledge, 2023.
Attila Györkös (University of Debrecen) presented:
- Patrik Pastrnak: Dynasty in Motion. Wedding Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, London: Routledge, 2023.
Book Corner: November 7, 2023
Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University) presented:
Matthew Koval: Childhood in Medieval Poland (1050-1300): Constructions and Realities in a European Context, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021.
Frederik Felskau (Cologne) presented:
The Correspondence of John of Capestrano: Letters Exchanged during his Stay in the Kingdom of Hungary (1455-1456) and with the Hungarian Recipients Beforehand (1451-1455), ed. by György Galamb in collaboration with Iulian Mihail Damian, Ottó Gecser, and Balázs Kertész, Szeged: Szegedi Tudományegyetem,
Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, 2023.
Dušan Zupka (Comenius University, Bratislava) presented:
The Expansion of the Faith. Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages, ed. by Paul Srodecki, and Norbert Kersken, Turnhout: Brepols 2022.
Alice Choyke (Central European University) presented:
Christopher Mielke: The Archaeology and Material Culture of Queenship in Medieval Hungary, 1000–1395, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Sean Field (University of Vermont) presented:
- Paweł Kras, and Tomasz Gałuszka: The Beguines of Medieval Świdnica: The Interrogation of the “Daughters of Odelindis” in 1332, Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2023.
Gregory Leighton (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń) presented:
- Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe – Friends, Families, Foes, ed. by Beata Możejko, Anna Paulina Orłowska, and Leslie Carr-Riegel, London: Routledge, 2023.
Dávid Falvay (Eötvös Loránd University) presented:
- The Saints of Rome: Diffusion and Reception from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, ed. by Trpimir Vedriš, Gábor Klaniczay, and Dorottya Uhrin, Zagreb: Hagiotheca, 2021.
Katalin Szende (Central European University) presented:
- Daniela Dvořáková: Barbara of Cilli (1392-1451). A Hungarian, Holy Roman, and Bohemian Queen, Leiden: Brill, 2021.
Gabriella Erdélyi (Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History) presented:
- Jenő Szűcs: The Historical Construction of National Consciousness, Budapest/Vienna/New York: Central European University Press, 2022.
Jonathan Shepard (University of Oxford) presented:
- Csete Katona: Vikings of the Steppe, Scandinavians, Rus’, and the Turkic World (c. 750–1050), New York: Routledge, 2022.
Talia Zajac (University of Manchester) presented:
- Grzegorz Pac: Women in the Piast Dynasty. A Comparative Study of Piast Wives and Daughters (c. 965–c.1144) Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022.
Pál Fodor (Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History) presented:
- The Arpadiana series, ed. by Pál Fodor and Attila Zsoldos, Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, 2020.
Three presentations will be given on the recently published Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe, ed. by Nada Zečević and Daniel Ziemann, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
The speakers are:
- Florin Curta (University of Florida)
- Antonín Kalous (Palacký University, Olomouc)
- Christina Lutter (University of Vienna)
Julia Verkholantsev (University of Pennsylvania) presented:
- Miroslav Vepřek: Czech Church Slavonic in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, Munich: Lincom, 2022.
- Václav Čermák: Hlaholské písemnictví v Čechách doby lucemburské, Prague: Slovanský ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 2020.
Gerhard Jaritz (Central European University) presented:
- Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages, ed. by František Šmahel, Martin Nodl, and Václav Žůrek, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022.
András Vadas (Eötvös Loránd University) presented:
- Krakow: An Ecobiography, ed. by Adam Izdebski and Rafał Szmytka, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
László Ferenczi (Charles University, Prague) presented:
- Beatrix Romhányi: Pauline Economy in the Middle Ages.”the spiritual cannot be maintained without the temporal …”, Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Paweł Kras (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) presented:
- Lucie Mazalová: Eschatology in the Work of Jan Hus, Turnhout: Brepols, 2022.
Kornél Illés (Central European University) presented:
- Tomislav Matić: Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central Europe. THE HUMANIST KINGMAKER, Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2022.
Julia Burkhardt (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) presented:
- Attila Zsoldos: The Golden Bull of Hungary, Budapest: ELKH Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Research Centre for the Humanities, 2022.
Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University) presented:
Dávid Falvay: Vernacular Hagiography and Meditation Literature in Late Medieval Italy, Budapest: ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2022.
Le Meditationes vitae Christi in volgare secondo il codice Paris, BnF, it. 115 Edizione, commentario e riproduzione del corredo iconografico, ed. by Diego Dotto, Dávid Falvay, Antonio Montefusco, Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Digital Publishing, 2021.
Miklós Földváry (Eötvös Loránd University) presented:
Political Liturgies in the High Middle Ages: Beyond the Legacy of Ernst H. Kantorowicz, ed. by Pawel Figurski, Johanna Dale, Pieter Byttebier, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
Marie-Madeleine de Cevins (Université de Rennes) presented:
- Attila Zsoldos: Árpáds and Their People, Budapest: Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, 2020.
Martin Pjecha (Central European University) presented:
- A Companion to the Hussites, ed. by Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup, Leiden: Brill, 2020.
Judit Majorossy (Max-Weber-Kolleg, Universität Erfurt) presented:
- Kriszta Arany: Florentine Families in Hungary in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Kiel: Solivagus-Verlag, 2020.
Attila Bárány (University of Debrecen) presented:
- János M. Bak and Géza Pálffy: Crown and Coronation in Hungary 1000–1916 A.D., Budapest: Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian National Museum, 2020.
Beatrix Romhányi (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary) presented:
- The Benedictines and Central Europe. Christianity – Culture – Society 800-1300, ed. by Dušan Foltýn, Pavlína Mašková, and Petr Sommer, Prague: NLN, 2021.
László Veszprémy (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) presented:
- Dušan Zupka: Ritual and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 – 1301), Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016.
Éloïse Adde (Central European University) presented:
- Competing narratives of the past in Central and Eastern Europe, c. 1200 -c. 1600, ed. by Pavlína Rychterová, David Kalhous, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University) presented:
- Enikő Csukovits: Hungary and the Hungarians. Western Europe’s View in the Middle Ages, Rome: Viella, 2018.
Six presentations will be given on the recently published The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300, ed. by Florin Curta, London: Routledge 2021.
The speakers were:
- Gerhard Jaritz (Central European University)
- Damir Karbić (Institute for Historical and Social Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)
- Paweł Kras (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
- Balázs Nagy (Eötvös Loránd University & Central European University)
- Pavlína Richterova (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna)
- Julia Verkholantsev (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Josip Banić (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula) presented:
- Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic: Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453, ed. by Magdalena Skoblar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Michal Machalski (Central European University) presented:
- Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe. Power, Rituals and Legitimacy in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, ed. by Dušan Zupka and Grischa Vercamer, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022.
Dorottya Uhrin (Eötvös Loránd University) presented:
- Carmen Florea: The Late Medieval Cult of the Saints: Universal Developments within Local Contexts, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2021.
József Laszlovszky (Central European University) presented:
- Kincskeresés, kaland, tudomány: Közösségi régészeti projektek Pest megyében [Treasure Hunt, Adventure, Science: Community Archeological Projects in Pest County], ed. by Tibor Rácz, Szentendre: Ferenczy Múzeumi Centrum, 2021.
Robert Antonín (University of Ostrava) presented:
- Cosmas of Prague. The Chronicle of the Czechs, ed. by János M. Bak and Pavlína Rychterová, Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2019.
Anna Adamska (University of Utrecht) presented:
- Wojciech Drelicharz: Unifying the Kingdom of Poland in Mediaeval Historiographic Thought, Kraków: Societas Vistulana, 2020.
Balázs Nagy (Eötvös Loránd University, Central European University) presented:
- Piotr Pranke, Miloš Žečević: Medieval Trade in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans (10th-12th centuries), Leiden: Brill, 2020.
- Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450 Abingdon, ed. by Dariusz Adamczyk, Beata Możejko, New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.
Béla Zsolt Szakács (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Central European University) presented:
- Ernő Marosi: “Fénylik a mű nemesen”. Válogatott írások a középkori művészet történetéről. I-III. [“The opus shines nobly”. Selected writings on the history of medieval art], Budapest: Martin Opitz Kiadó, 2020.
Three presentations were given on a recently published encyclopedia on Central Europe, named Démystifier l’Europe centrale. Bohême, Hongrie et Pologne du VIIe au XVIe siècle, ed. by Marie-Madeleine de Cevins in collaboration with Enikő Csukovits, Olivier Marin, Martin Nejedlý, and Przemysław Wiszewski, Paris: Passés composés / Humensis, 2021.
The Speakers were:
- Éloïse Adde (Central European University)
- Dániel Bagi (ELTE, Budapest)
- Julia Burkhardt (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Trpimir Vedriš (University of Zagreb) presented:
- Ivan Basić: I vescovi della Dalmazia al Concilio di Hieria del 754. Appunti sulla geografia storica dell’Adriatico meridionale bizantino nell’VIII secolo, Split, 2021.
Katalin Szende (Central European University) presented:
- Judit Gál: Dalmatia and the Exercise of Royal Authority in the Árpád-Era Kingdom of Hungary, Budapest: BTK TTI, 2021.
Antonín Kalous (Palacký University, Olomouc) presented:
- The Grand Tour of John of Capistrano in Central and Eastern Europe (1451-1456). Transfer of Ideas and Strategies of Communication in the Late Middle Ages, ed. by Pawel Kras and James D. Mixson, Warsaw-Lublin: Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018.
- Letters related to the History of Poland and Silesia (1451-1456), ed. by Paweł Kras, Halina Manikowska, Marcin Starzyński, and Anna Zajchowska-Bołtromiuk, transl. by Stephen Rowell, Warsaw-Lublin: Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Science, 2018 [Gábor Klaniczay, Letizia Pellegrini, Filippo Sedda, and Ludovic Viallet, eds., Corpus epistolarum Ioannis de Capistrano / Correspondence of John of Capistrano, vol. 1].