%0 Electronic Article %A Gyáni, Gábor %I Taylor & Francis Group %D 2009 %D 2009 %G English %@ 0307-1022 %~ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstbibliothek %T Trends in Contemporary Hungarian Historical Scholarship %V 34 %J Social History %V 34 %N 2 %P 250-260 %U https://www.jstor.org/stable/25594361 %X

This overview of contemporary historical scholarship considers the continuities and discontinuities that have shaped the writing of history in Hungary since the 1990s. In East European communist countries the more liberal political climate of the Kádár regime fostered an awareness of historical writing elsewhere, particularly in the West, among Hungarian scholars. This contributed to the emergence of social history in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the establishment of the István Hajnal Circle (Social History Association) as an autonomous professional institution for social historians. Following the political changes in 1989, social history became an integral part of the history and sociology curriculum at Hungarian universities. In terms of research, social science history exerted an early and significant influence on the historical demography of the early modern period. Subsequently, urban history and the historical evolution of the modern bourgeoisie provided the focus for scholarly research. The growing interest in the conditions and experiences of everyday life registered an important shift in research priorities and their conceptualization. Hungarian social historians became far more receptive to the ideas and methods of the German Begriffsgeschichte (including Alltagsgeschichte), the Italian microstoria or microhistory and Anglo-Saxon historical anthropology than to the more structural approach suggested by social science history.

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