130219 VO StEOP: Hungary: History and Culture I (2012W)

To launch the most typical features of the Hungarian history is the purpose of the lecture: the characteristics of the Roman culture in Pannonia, from the nomadic way of life to the settlement of Hungarians, the beginnings of Christianity, the Church as a carrier of the medieval culture, the structure of the Hungarian society in the Middle Ages, migration movements in the Carpathian-basin, the consequences of the Ottoman rule and the Habsburg politics in Eastern Europe, the causes of the economic backwardness, start of the modernisation.