Education
He moved to SSEES in 1990, where he had previously completed his Doctor of Philosophy, publishing books and articles primarily on the history of Romania and Hungary.
( Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor and, until his ...)
Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor and, until his death in 1558, he was to play a central role on the European political stage. The book is a clear introduction to the often confusing train of events in the first half of the sixteenth century. It looks at Charles's response to the Protestant Reformation in Germany; his efforts to retain the Netherlands under Habsburg control; his struggle with France for domination over Italy; and his attempts to check the expansion of Ottoman power in the Mediterranean.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0582354757/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F7YFSE6/?tag=2022091-20
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FJ1D2DQ/?tag=2022091-20
(This is the first comprehensive treatment in any language...)
This is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the history of customary law in Hungary, from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. Hungary's customary law was described by Stephen Werboczy in 1517 in the extensive law code known as the Tripartitum. As Werboczy explained, Hungarian law derived from the interplay of Romano-canonical law, statute, written instruments, and court judgments. It was also responsive, however, to popular conceptions of the law's content and application, as communicated through the lay membership of the kingdom's courts. Publication of the Tripartitum was intended to make the law more certain by fixing it in writing. Nevertheless, its text was customized by actual use, in the same way as the statute laws of the kingdom were adjusted as a consequence of court practice and of errors in their transmission. The reputation attaching to the Tripartitum and Hungary's insulation from the Roman Law Reception meant that the Tripartitum continued to retain authority until well into the nineteenth century. Attempts to replace it foundered and it was the principal text on which the courts and the schools relied, not only in Habsburg Hungary but also in Transylvania. Courts, nevertheless, continued to modify its provisions in the interests of rendering judgments that they deemed either to be right or in conformity with developing practices. Even after the establishment of a parliamentary form of government in the nineteenth century, a strong customary element attached to Hungarian law, which was amplified by the association of customary law with national traditions. The consequence was that Hungary maintained aspects of a customary law regime until the Communist period.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198743912/?tag=2022091-20
He moved to SSEES in 1990, where he had previously completed his Doctor of Philosophy, publishing books and articles primarily on the history of Romania and Hungary.
He was from 1995 to 2009 Warden of Hughes Parry Hall, an intercollegiate hall of the University of London. After leaving Hughes Parry he moved to Ramsgate, Kent. His principal interest is Hungarian legal history and the translation of texts, most recently of the Gesta Hungarorum.
In 1996, he was elected chair of SSEES Academic Assembly.
Between 2003 and 2008 he was Head of the History Department at SSEES. He was appointed Professor of Central European History in 2004 and awarded the established Masaryk Chair in 2015.
(This is the first comprehensive treatment in any language...)
( Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor and, until his ...)
In 2004 he was made an Honorary Life Member of the Modern Humanities Research Association.
