The first comprehensive study on the influence of Latin classical texts and traditions in medieval Hungary based on philological and historical analysis of eleventh century sources. The author proves that the Latin classics had a stronger impact on the formation of Latin literacy in medieval Hungary than it has been acknowledges before. The four chapters of the book (The Cathedral School, The Admonitions of King Saint Stephen of Hungary, The Deliberato of Bishop Saint Gerard of Csanad, The Monastic School) provide important contributions to the philological study of Medieval Latin and the...

Contains selcected papers from two conferences in 2003 at the uNiversity of Bergen (Norway) and at the Central European University (Hungary). They deal with the communication of the Holy See with Northern Europe and East Central Europe in the late Middle Ages, both at the margins of Western Christendom.

This volume provides a thorough introduction to the Cyrillic collection, and contains detailed descriptions of the fifty-six Slavonic Cyrillic codices or fragments thereof held by the Natinoal Szechenyi Library in Budapest, the vast majority of which are here described for the first time. Analyses of the codices have been conducted using the resources of modern technology. Written from the thirteenth to early nineteenth century, the codices were mostly produced within the confines of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. The catalogue is extensively illustrated with pictures of the most...

The 19th century was the epoch of nation building for the Bulgarians under Ottoman rule. Comparisons and analogies are made between the Bulgarian Revival and other regions, epochs, ideological trends and events.

A collection of letters by a most extraordinary member of East European intelligentsia, sent from Moscow, Mostar; lately Paris and Rome, where the author has lived since leaving war-torn Bosnia. Matvejević , vice president of the International PEN Club, was born in Yugoslavia, the son of a Russian emigre. His letters are about the past and the present of Russia, as welll as his hopes and fears for her future.

A study of social transformation in central and eastern Europe after 1989. Focusing on Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Slovakia, the author provides comparative information relating to social structure, mobility, inequality, lifestyle and economic stratification.