Stephen I, the First Christian King of Hungary

Stephen I, the first Christian king of Hungary analyses the often seamless flow that has turned medieval myth into modern history, showing that politicisation was not a modern addition, but a determinant factor from the start.

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Educated at ELTE Budapest, EHESS Paris, and Columbia University, New York, Nora Berend held a Junior Research Fellowship at Cambridge, then taught at Goldsmiths College London before returning to the University of Cambridge in 2000. She has been Professor of European history there since 2018. She received a Humboldt Fellowship at Mannheim, and was an invited Fellow at the K. Hamburger Kolleg Bochum. She was visiting professor at EHESS (Paris), Doshisha (Kyoto), Central European University, the universities of Mannheim, Stockholm, and Trondheim, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Stockholm.