HISTORIOGRAFIA V HISTORICKOM ÚSTAVE SAV V ROKU 2010

The study is concerned with the problem of historiography at Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 2010. The publication activity of the institute was rich and extensive in that year. They amount to about 40 monographs, syntheses, edition of sources, encyclopaedic works and dictionaries, about ten volumes of papers and numerous scientific and expert studies and articles in domestic and foreign periodicals. The staff of the institute published their most important work as the results of scientific projects financially supported by the grant agencies, especially the Centre for Excellence of the SAS (CEVKOMSD), Agency for Research and Development (APVV) and Vega, in notable domestic and foreign publishing houses: Veda SAV, Prodama, Pro História, Cambridge University Press and others. Themes from politics, economics and culture predominate, but problems from social and religious history are also frequent. Two especially remarkable scientific works need to be emphasized among the numerous publications of expert historical literature. The first is an impressive work of encyclopaedic character: Lexikon stredovekých miest (Lexicon of Medieval Towns), written by a team of medievalists from the Institute under the leadership of Martin Štefánik and Ján Lukačka. The work is an original project not only in the context of Slovak but also of Central European medieval studies. The second is the publication: Slovakia in History, which represents the first important synthesis of Slovak history written in the English language mostly by Slovak authors. The conception of the work was prepared by Dušan Kováč in cooperation with Mikuláš Teich and Cambridge University. In 2010 the Institute of History of the SAS published or participated in publishing various important scientific and popular periodicals: Historický časopis, Forum Historiae, Historické štúdie, História – revue o dejinách spoločnosti, Human Affairs. The staff of the institute regularly provided scientific studies, articles, reviews and discussions for these periodicals.