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Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe. By ...
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
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Im Kuttenberger Dekret verlieh König Wenzel IV. entgegen der Prager Universitätsverfassung den drei deutschsprachigen Universitätsnationen nurmehr eine Stimme in der Universitätsversammlung, der böhmischen Nation dagegen drei. Die nationale Geschichtsschreibung hat daher seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts dieses Dekret zu einem Höhepunkt ständiger Spannungen zwischen Deutschen und Böhmen stilisiert, auf den sie die deutsch-tschechischen Gegensätze des 19./20. Jahrhunderts zurückprojizieren konnte. In seiner Analyse weist der Autor dagegen nach, dass die Beziehung der Prager Universitätsnationen bis Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts vom Bemühen um Eintracht geprägt war. Zudem behandelt er...
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