Bálint Ugry's book East Goes West: Kavalierstours of Hungarian Aristocrats in the Seventeenth Century has been published

Bálint Ugry's book explores the early modern European study tours of young Hungarian aristocrats, known as Kavalierstour. The Kavalierstour was part of many young noblemen’s studies in early modern Europe or represented its final stage. Its unparalleled popularity shows that it was a suitable reflection of the changes that began in the sixteenth century and repositioned the place of the high nobility in society and the courts of the aristocracy, the Church, and the monarchs.

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My Farewell to the Yellow House - Book Launch at the Freud Museum, London

István Hollós's book My Farewell to the Yellow House (1927) is being published in English for the first time. Hollós's writing is an early example of a democratic approach to psychiatry, and his work is linked at several points to the MTA Psychiatric Art Collection in the care of the HUN-REN BTK.

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Gábor György Papp's Conference Presentation at the University of Innsbruck

Gábor György Papp, research fellow of the Institute of Art History will give a lecture titled József Hubert (1846-1916), Architekt der Oesterreichisch-Ungarischen Bank on Thursday, November 7, at a conference organized by the University of Innsbruck's Archiv für Bau.Kunst.Geschichte. This conference marks the first public event of a three-year research project launched this year. The project focuses on Die Bautätigkeit der Oesterreichisch-Ungarischen Bank und der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank 1878–1938 im europäischen Kontext.

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Edit András Awarded Honorary Doctorate

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