Psalmus Hungaricus I-III.

Psalmus Hungaricus is a three-volume synthesis of Hungarian cultural history presented by the Research Center for the Humanities of the Loránd Eötvös Research Network in Budapest. It is the most comprehensive overview of the Hungarian past ever published in English. Authors and editors include the most prominent experts in their fields. The work embraces the entire history of the Hungarian nation and state from the earliest beginnings to the end of the twentieth century targeting both scholars and the general public. Cultural history is interpreted in the broadest possible meaning of the concept encompassing the artistic, economic, literary, political, social political milieu of Hungarian civilization. Accordingly, the nine chronological chapters cover political, social, and economic history, history of the language, arts and literature, folk beliefs, religions and churches, physical and political geography, science, technology, manners, everyday life of their respective time periods. AN OUTLINE OF THE TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I: FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO 1526 VOLUME II: FROM 1526 TO 1867 VOLUME III: FROM 1867 TO 2000 The large-scale, three-volume, English-language work of the Humanities Research Center entitled Psalmus Hungaricus: A Hungarian Cultural History reviews the entire history of Hungarian culture. The richly illustrated publication, produced with the unparalleled collaboration of Hungarian scholarship, can greatly contribute to the presentation and popularization of the country and Hungarian culture abroad. Similar works reviewing the history of Hungarian culture have been produced before, but Psalmus Hungaricus differs from all previous undertakings in its concept and detail. The text of the book, written by 72 authors, is supplemented by 1,170 images selected from the collections of a total of 22 institutions - mostly national and county museums and art galleries - a place name and personal name index, as well as a unique atlas containing 100 maps and recommended literature. Each period of Hungarian cultural history discussed in the work from the beginning to 2000 has a separate chapter: public history, language, literature, the arts, the world of faith, churches and religion, the landscape and the people living in it (including administration, settlement structure, public administration), and lifestyle (economy, society, schools, crafts, everyday life). The antecedents of the Psalmus Hungaricus date back to the time of the millencentenary events. A comprehensive, 9-part CD-ROM series, the Encyclopaedia Humana Hungarica (1995-2001), was produced by a collaboration between experts from the academic sphere (scientific institutes, universities and the museum network) and a civil society organization, the Encyclopaedia Humana Association, which specializes in multimedia teaching aids. The first six parts of the series were published in German and English. The Hungarian version was used as the basis for the book version of the series, the Hungarian Codex I-VI. (Editor-in-chief: József Szentpéteri. Bp., Kossuth, 1999-2001). For the English version, the topics of Hungarian prehistory and the age of conquest, which have developed extremely much in recent times, were completely rewritten from the original Hungarian text, while the remaining parts were strongly condensed, updated and re-edited.