THIS YEAR HOWARD LOUTHAN ASSUMED THE DIRECTORSHIP of the Center for Austrian Studies, becoming Executive Editor of the Austrian History Yearbook as well. Howard has graciously allowed me to write the editors’ notes this year, giving me the opportunity to express my personal gratitude to all who have taken part in producing the Yearbook during the past decade that I have served as editor. It has been a privilege to serve as article editor, and especially to experience firsthand the original work of such a broad array of creative scholars. The community of those who engage with the Yearbook has grown, while becoming increasingly international in the past decade. I consider myself particularly fortunate, because as editor I consistently got to read exciting and often cuttingedge work contributed by many younger authors on both sides of the Atlantic. I was also extraordinarily fortunate to have the generous assistance of so many colleagues, both new and established scholars, who nurtured the Yearbook by evaluating manuscripts and bringing dynamic new work to our attention. Some of you did much more than you needed to do in this regard. I also had the support of the Executive Committee of the Society of Austrian and Habsburg Historians, which frequently brought articles, forums, and unknown authors to my attention. I had the assistance of a highly professional and indeed meticulous staff at the Center for Austrian Studies, who annually worked very hard (especially in December!) to produce a journal of the highest caliber. Finally, I was lucky to assume the editorship at a moment when the Yearbook was thriving under Charles Ingrao’s stewardship. I hope that Daniel Unowsky, the talented new editor, will find that I have passed on a journal to him that is in equally strong shape. Volume 47 of the Yearbook includes thoughtful, creative, and highly original articles by a higher than usual number of authors based in Europe. It also, appropriately to my own interests, includes a large number of articles on nineteenth-century topics, a century that has seen something of a decline in the profession over the past decade. Distinguished medievalist Patrick J. Geary of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton delivered the 2015 Robert A. Kann memorial lecture, a tradition begun with a lecture by Carl E. Schorske in 1984. Geary’s lecture, entitled “Austria, the Writing of History, and the Search for European Identity” opens this volume of the AHY. In his lecture, Professor Geary analyzed four medievalists of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung who developed highly distinctive and open-ended strategies for writing cultural histories of Austria, and by extension of Europe itself. Arguing that they subtly resisted nationalist tropes by developing contingent, discontinuous, and complex understandings of the constructed nature of Austrian history, Geary demonstrates the importance of their approaches to understanding the broader history of Europe itself.

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今年的霍华德·劳特汉（LOUTHAN）担任奥地利研究中心的主任，并同时成为《奥地利历史年鉴》的执行编辑。霍华德（Howard）慷慨地允许我今年撰写编辑笔记，这使我有机会对过去十年来担任编辑的所有参与编写《年鉴》的所有人表示我个人的感谢。能够担任文章编辑是我的荣幸，尤其是亲身体验如此众多创意学者的原创作品。在过去的十年中，参与《年鉴》的人们的社区在增长，同时也变得越来越国际化。我觉得自己特别幸运，因为作为编辑，我一直需要阅读大西洋两岸许多年轻作家撰写的激动人心且往往是最前沿的著作。我也非常幸运地得到了这么多新手和老手们的慷慨帮助，他们通过评估手稿和提请我们注意动态的新作品来培育《年鉴》。在这方面，你们中有些人做的比您需要做的要多得多。我还得到了奥地利和哈布斯堡王朝历史学家学会执行委员会的支持，该委员会经常提请我注意文章，论坛和不知名的作者。在奥地利研究中心，我得到了一支非常专业且确实非常细心的工作人员的协助，他们每年都非常努力（尤其是在12月！），以制作出最高水准的期刊。最后，当《年鉴》在查尔斯·英格拉（Charles Ingrao）的领导下蒸蒸日上时，我很幸运能够担任编辑一职。我希望Daniel Unowsky，才华横溢的新主编会发现，我已经把一本同样结实的日记传给了他。《年鉴》第47卷收录了比以往更多来自欧洲的作者，其思想性，创造性和高度原创性的文章。为了我个人的利益，本书中还包含大量有关19世纪主题的文章，而在过去的十年中，这个世纪的专业水平有所下降。普林斯顿大学高级研究所的杰出中世纪主义者帕特里克·吉尔（Patrick J. Geary）在2015年发表了罗伯特·A·坎恩（Robert A. Kann）纪念演讲，该传统始于1984年卡尔·斯科尔斯克（Carl E. Schorske）的演讲。和“寻找欧洲身份””打开了AHY的这一卷。在他的演讲中 吉尔教授分析了四位中世纪德国中世纪史研究所的科学家，他们提出了非常独特和开放性的策略来撰写奥地利的文化历史，并扩展了欧洲本身的文化历史。贾里认为他们通过对奥地利历史的自然本质发展出偶然的，不连续的和复杂的理解，从而巧妙地抵抗了民族主义的对立，吉尔证明了他们理解欧洲自身更广泛历史的方法的重要性。