A Középkori Egyetemes Történeti Tanszék

Absztrakt

The paper summarizes the history of the Department of Medieval History of the University of Szeged from its foundation to the present day. After the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Cluj was moved to Szeged in 1921, Sándor Márki, an eminent historian of the time, became the first head of the department, which also taught modern history. Between the two world wars and during the Rákosi dictatorship, for various reasons, there was no significant research on the European Middle Ages and the early modern period. This situation changed from 1959 onwards, when Tibor Wittman, an internationally renowned scholar, combined his research on the early modern history of Europe with the history of Latin America. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sándor Gyimesi worked in the former field and Ádám Anderle in the latter. Since the change of regime, at the initiative of István Zimonyi, the department is teaching both the history of the European Middle Ages and one of the Eurasian steppe and Muslim civilisation, launching the careers of many young scholars.