Acta Papensia 2003 - A Pápai Református Gyűjtemények Közleményei 3. évfolyam (Pápa, 2003)

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What would have appeared almost impossible 100 or 150 years before, it is a natural and a common fact. There is no such settlement in Hungary and the Carpathian Basin the local history of which could not be compiled with lesser or greater degree of energy. The real question is whether we can find a genuine theoretical-methodological problem or some quality in the background of these works. Village history writing is in the fashion, but quantitative production and qualitative expectations are not in balance.

Our present thematic volume is based on the lectures of the Conference on Questions of Writing Regional Monographs held in the seat of the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 21st November, 2002. With the publication of the lectures of this conference we are preparing an inventory of the regional monograph-production and its characteristics of the regime transformation decade. We are confident that the lesson of this summary can be drawn and will be drawn by all those, who are concerned.

József Hudi editor-in-chief