Triumph in Adversity

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Triumph in Adversity Edited by
Steven Béla Várdy and
Agnes Huszár Várdy
This book is a tribute both to Professor Ferenc Somogyi
— a noted scholar of Hungarian legal, constitutional, and cultural history — as well as to Hungary's millennial civilization, which has been the topic of his scholarly interests for nearly six decades. It is the result of the joint efforts of twenty-five scholars from three continents, representing several related disciplines.
The studies in this volume are bound together by their concentration on various aspects of Hungarian history, culture, society, and politics, and by their authors' respect for Professor Somogyi. Chronologically they embrace nine centuries from the early 1100s to our own times, while topically they cover subjects from medieval politics and institutions to Humanist poetry, from nineteenth-century liberalism and taxation system to twentieth-century social work, from Renaissance learning in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Hungary... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Triumph in Adversity Edited by
Steven Béla Várdy and
Agnes Huszár Várdy
This book is a tribute both to Professor Ferenc Somogyi
— a noted scholar of Hungarian legal, constitutional, and cultural history — as well as to Hungary's millennial civilization, which has been the topic of his scholarly interests for nearly six decades. It is the result of the joint efforts of twenty-five scholars from three continents, representing several related disciplines.
The studies in this volume are bound together by their concentration on various aspects of Hungarian history, culture, society, and politics, and by their authors' respect for Professor Somogyi. Chronologically they embrace nine centuries from the early 1100s to our own times, while topically they cover subjects from medieval politics and institutions to Humanist poetry, from nineteenth-century liberalism and taxation system to twentieth-century social work, from Renaissance learning in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Hungary to economic developments under Hungary's current New Economic Mechanism, and from our century's ever-present national minority question to the social, cultural, and pohtical manifestations of Hungarian-American Ufe.
As is inevitable in a book of this type — while adding to our overall knowledge about Hungary and the Hungarians
— the twenty-five enclosed essays do not represent a homogeneous view of Hungarian history and civilization. They mirror the distinct views, diverse methodological approaches, and varied scholarly and creative abilities of their respective authors. Even so, however, they do hang together, they represent a whole, and they are well within the confines of the discipUne of Hungarian Studies.
It is our hope that this book will be of use to scholars in several of the related humanistic disciplines, as well as to the non-specialists who are interested in the history and present conditions of a region of the Old World which nowadays is generally called East Central Europe.
The Editors
Steven Béla Várdy, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Duquesne University, Adjunct Professor of East European History at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as past Chairman of Duquesne's History Department, and the former Director of its History Forum. A recipient of numerous major fellowships and research grants (e.g. IREX, Rockefeller, NEH, Hillman, Hunkele, etc.). Professor Várdy has twice served as Visiting Scholar at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and at the University of Budapest. Professor Várdy's publications include many scores of articles, chapters, essays, and reviews in various national and international periodicals, handbooks, and collective volumes, as well as about a dozen authored and edited books. Among the former are his Modern Hungarian Historiography (1976), Clio's Art in Hungary and in Hungarian-America (1985), The Hungarian-Americans (1985), Baron Joseph Eötvös: A Literary Biography (1987), as well as the forthcoming The Austro-Hungarian Mind (1989), and The Hungarians of North America (1989). He is also the co-author and co-editor of Society in Change: Studies in Honor of Béla K. Király (1983), and Louis the Great: King of Hungary and Poland (1986).
Agnes Huszár Várdy, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Robert Morris College, and for almost a decade she also taught Hungarian language and culture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research and teaching interests include Germanistics, Austrian and Hungarian Romanticism, and Hungarian-American literature and culture. A recipient of research grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Uralic and Altaic Center of Indiana University, Dr. Vardy has conducted most of her past research in Heidelberg, Vienna, and Budapest. Her books include: A Study in Austrian Romanticism: Hungarian Irrfluences in Lenau's Poetry (1974), Karl Beck: His Life and Poetic Career (1984), and the forthcoming The Austro-Hungarian Mind (1989). She has also co-edited and co-authored The Folk Arts in Hungary (1981), and SodeO"'i Change: Studies in Honor of Béla K. Király (1983). Professor Várdy has also published extensively in various American and European scholarly and popular periodicals, as well as encyclopedias. Her current research centers on the cultural and literary life of the Displaced Persons in post-World War II Germany and Austria.
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