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Am Mittwoch, den 03. April 2019, wird ab 17 Uhr in der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Hollandstrasse 11-13, 1. Stock, 1020 Wien) der folgende Band vorgestellt: Pavlína Rychterová et al. (eds.), Times of Upheaval: Four Medievalists in Twentieth-Century Central Europe. Conversations with Jerzy Kłoczowski, János M. Bak, František Šmahel, and Herwig Wolfram, CEU: Budapest/New York 2019.Abstract: The volume unites conversations with four masters of Medieval Studies  from east-central Europe: János Bak from Hungary, Jerzy Kłoczowski from  Poland, František Šmahel from the Czech Republic, and Herwig Wolfram  from Austria. The interviews, made by younger colleagues, reveal  engaging life stories, with numerous observations, anecdotes and  experiences. The four scholars grew up before and during the war, under  Nazi occupation, emerged as young scholars in the difficult post-war  period, and, for most of their careers worked in the shadow of the Iron  Curtain, two of them spending most of their lifetimes under communist  regimes.The conversations focus on ways in which open-minded young  intellectuals became medieval historians under difficult circumstances,  how they experienced the long shadows of totalitarian regimes with their  acute sensitivity for historical change, and how their perceptions of  the world around them reflected back on their approach to medieval  history. The histories of their nations were broken, most of them ceased  to exist and then were re-established during their lifetimes, came  under foreign domination, were split up, or had their territories  shifted. These changes affected these scholars' identities and patriotic  feelings, and their present was reflected in the distant mirror of the  medieval past.&#160;Informationen zum Veranstaltungsprogramm finden Sie hier.