International cooperation between the Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University and the University of Melbourne results in creating a new publishing series entitled „East Central Europe, 476–1795”.
The series will be published by a prestigious academic publishing house Brepols.
The series covers interdisciplinary studies on the history of Central and Eastern Europe and aims to contribute to a broader understanding of the past and social, economic and political culture of Central and Eastern Europe as an integral part of Europe and its significant contribution to world history. By emphasizing the "specificity" of Central and Eastern Europe, its task is to promote this area not only from the territorial, geographical and cultural perspective, but above all from the perspective of historical research.
The series goes against the current dominant concepts of the periphery and borders (borderline) and cultural transmission in research on the Middle Ages and modern history, and calls for the inclusion of the past of Central and Eastern Europe in global research. It also addresses the fundamental issue of the widespread perception of the people and culture of the European periphery as radically separate and mutually hostile; after all, there were often special connections between different persons and cultures, both in time and space.
Much can be learned about cultural concepts of order and disorder, individual and community, belonging and alienation from studies on the history of individual cultures, ethnoses or countries and their responses to new civilization impulses.
The series will therefore include publications on politics, culture, economy and societies, as well as space and identity in the circle of Central and Eastern Europe. Ultimately, its task will be to show that the experiences of "(self) creation of Europe" result to a large extent from thinking about human existence in terms of "us" and "them".
Editor-in-chief: Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński (Melbourne)
Scientific editors: Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek (Poznań), Matthew Firth (Flinders University), Robert Tomczak (Poznań)
Editorial board:
- Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, University College London
- Józef Dobosz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
- Emilia Jamroziak, University of Leeds
- Adrian Jones, La Trobe University
- David Kalhous, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
- Natalia Nowakowska, University of Oxford
- Krzysztof Skwierczyński, University of Warsaw
- Daniel Bagi, University of Pécs, Hungary
