Marxism and Medieval Studies : : Marxist Historiography in East Central Europe / / edited by Martin Nodl, Piotr Węcowski, Dušan Zupka.

• Superior document: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; 93
• TeilnehmendeR: Nodl, Martin,; Węcowski, Piotr,; Zupka, Dušan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; 93.; Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (407 pages)

This volume is a unique publication as it examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time, with an emphasis on the co-existence of Marxist and other methodologies between the 1950s and 1970s in the local historiographies in question. Its appr...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Publisher's Note
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 An Introduction to Marxist Historiography in Poland
• Chapter 3 Polish Medievalists in the Face of Stalinism (1948-1955)
• Chapter 4 Hungarian Medievalists under the Spell of Marxism
• Chapter 5 On the Genesis of Marxist Iconology: Some Observations on the Ambitious Methodological Endeavours of Czech Medieval Art History
• Chapter 6 Marxism and the Cultural History of Medieval Rus': The Concept of a Russian Pre-Renaissance
• Chapter 7 František Graus: From Marxist Dogmas to the Concept of the Living and Dead Past
• Chapter 8 Between Science and Politics, between History and Archaeology: The Department for Studies on the Origins of the Polish State (1948/1949-1953)
• Chapter 9 Medieval Knight Clans in Marxist Historiographical Criticism in the 1950s
• Chapter 10 How Did the Czech Hussites Become a Current Problem in the History of Socialist Poland? Ewa Maleczyńska: Between Professional and Party Historian
• Chapter 11 Hussitism as an Early Bourgeois Revolution
• Chapter 12 Between Nationalism and Marxism: Silesian Princes of the Late Middle Ages through the Lens of Post-war Polish Historiography
• Chapter 13 Peasants, Rents, and Money in Marxist Works on German Law-Based Colonization
• Chapter 14 Great Moravia in Slovak Marxist Historiography
• Chapter 15 Marxists, Pseudo-Marxists and Neo-Marxists in Czech Archaeology
• Chapter 16 Marxism in Medieval Archaeology: A Woman's Touch
• Chapter 17 Marxist Historical Theory in the Research of the Árpádian Period in Hungary (1000-1301)
• Chapter 18 The Marxist Paradigm and Early Romanian Medieval Archaeology from the "Era of Great Achievements"
• Chapter 19 Conclusion: Is Marxism Alive and Inspiring in Contemporary East Central European Medieval Studies?
• Index.