Historiography at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 2010.

DURKOVA, Maria. Historiography at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 2010. Historicky casopis, 2012, 60, 3, pp. 521-536, Bratislava. The study is concerned with the problem of historiography at Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 2010. The publication activity of the institute in that year was rich and extensive. A wide range of works appeared, representing almost all periods of history. They amount to about 40 monographs, syntheses, editions of sources, encyclopedic works and dictionaries, about ten volumes of papers and numerous scientific and expert studies and articles in domestic and foreign periodicals. The staff of the institute published their most important work as results of scientific projects financially supported by grant agencies, especially the Centre for Excellence of the SAS (CEVKOMSD), Agency for Research and Development (APVV) and Vega, in notable domestic and foreign publishing houses: Veda vydavatestvo SAV, Prodama, Pro Historia, Cambridge University Press and others. The content of the publications is varied. Themes from politics, economics and culture predominate, but problems from social and religions history are also frequent. Two especially remarkable scientific works need to be emphasized among the numerous publications of expert historical literature. The first is an impressive work of encyclopedic character: Lexikon streddvekytch miest (Lexicon of Medieval Towns), written by a team of medievalists from the Institute under the leadership of Martin Stefanik and Jan Lukacka. The work is an original project not only in the context of Slovak but also of Central European medieval studies. The second is the publication: Slovakia in History, which represents the first important synthesis of Slovak history written in the English language mostly by Slovak authors. The conception of the work was prepared by Dusan Kovac in cooperation with Mikulas Teich and Cambridge University. In 2010 the Institute of History of the SAS published or participated in publishing various important scientific and popular periodicals: Historicky casopis, Forum Historiae, Historicke studie, Historia - revue o dejinach spolocnosti, Human Affairs. The staff of the institute regularly provided scientific studies, articles, reviews and discussions for these periodicals. Historiography. Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Slovakia, Scientific research. Grant tasks.