Marxism and Medieval Studies: Marxist Historiography in East Central Europe (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 93)

Marxism and Medieval Studies examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time. It covers the co-existence of Marxist methodology with other methodologies between the 1950s and 1970s in the local historiographies. Contents 6 Publisher’s Note 8 Notes on Contributors 9 Chapter 1 Introduction 16 Chapter 2 An Introduction to Marxist Historiography in Poland 28 Chapter 3 Polish Medievalists in the Face of Stalinism (1948–1955) 42 Chapter 4 Hungarian Medievalists under the Spell of Marxism 65 Chapter 5 On the Genesis of Marxist Iconology: Some Observations on the Ambitious Methodological Endeavours of Czech Medieval Art History 83 Chapter 6 Marxism and the Cultural History of Medieval Rus’: The Concept of a Russian Pre-Renaissance 102 Chapter 7 František Graus: From Marxist Dogmas to the Concept of the Living and Dead Past 116 Chapter 8 Between Science and Politics, between History and Archaeology: The Department for Studies on the Origins of the Polish State (1948/1949–1953) 130 Chapter 9 Medieval Knight Clans in Marxist Historiographical Criticism in the 1950s 173 Chapter 10 How Did the Czech Hussites Become a Current Problem in the History of Socialist Poland? Ewa Maleczyńska: Between Professional and Party Historian 189 Chapter 11 Hussitism as an Early Bourgeois Revolution 205 Chapter 12 Between Nationalism and Marxism: Silesian Princes of the Late Middle Ages through the Lens of Post-war Polish Historiography 231 Chapter 13 Peasants, Rents, and Money in Marxist Works on German Law-Based Colonization 258 Chapter 14 Great Moravia in Slovak Marxist Historiography 276 Chapter 15 Marxists, Pseudo-Marxists and Neo-Marxists in Czech Archaeology 297 Chapter 16 Marxism in Medieval Archaeology: A Woman’s Touch 310 Chapter 17 Marxist Historical Theory in the Research of the Árpádian Period in Hungary (1000–1301) 368 Chapter 18 The Marxist Paradigm and Early Romanian Medieval Archaeology from the “Era of Great Achievements” 377 Chapter 19 Conclusion: Is Marxism Alive and Inspiring in Contemporary East Central European Medieval Studies? 401 Index 404 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 approach is to distinguish between pseudo-Marxism as an ideological tool on the one hand, and Marxism in the form of historical materialism as a way to interpret the medieval world on the other. Contributors are: Florin Curta, Piotr Guzowski, Adam Hudek, Tereza Johanidesová, Jitka Komendová, Jiří Macháček, Andrzej Marzec, Martin Nodl, Attila Pók, David Radek, Tadeusz Paweł Rutkowski, Iurie Stamati, Rafał Stobiecki, Gábor Thoroczkay, Przemysław Wiszewski, Piotr Węcowski, Martin Wihoda, and Dušan Zupka.