Ludovika University of Public Service
Research Institute for Politics and Government

Schvéd Brigitta

Degrees: BA in History with Art History minor (Pázmány Péter Catholic University); MA in History (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)

Research interests: early modern political thought (British and continental), intellectual and conceptual history; conservatism and liberalism; periodical studies; the early modern conceptualization and political iconography of the ‘balance of power’

Publications: MTMT

Membership: British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS); European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit); European Society for the History of Political Thought (ESHPT); International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS); Hungarian Historical Society (Magyar Történelmi Társulat, MTT); Austrian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Österreichische Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts, ÖGE18); Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC)

Contact: schved.brigitta.kinga[at]uni-nke.hu; Academia.edu; ResearchGate; ORCID; ODT

Projects: British Conservative Thought in a European Context; Traditions of Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought

 

 

Brigitta Schvéd (1992) is a junior research fellow at the Research Institute for Politics and Government within the Eötvös József Research Centre at the Ludovika University of Public Service. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in History and Art History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. She continued her studies in the doctoral programme in History under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Endre Sashalmi at the University of Pécs, where she is currently a doctoral candidate. Since the beginning of her doctoral studies, she has participated in numerous national and international conferences. In 2019 and 2023, she conducted library, manuscript, and archival research in London within the collections of the Senate House Library and the British Library, as well as at the British National Archives. In August 2019, she successfully completed the long-established summer school on conceptual history (Concepta Summer School: “Introduction to Conceptual History”), organised in collaboration with Concepta: International Research Consortium of Political Research and the European Society for the History of Political Thought, an international association of researchers in the field of conceptual history.

During her doctoral studies, she was awarded research scholarships from the New National Excellence Program and the Wacław Felczak Foundation. Between 2021 and 2023, she taught early modern European history courses at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs. Between 2021 and 2023, she served as the Reviews editor for Újkor.hu, a Hungarian-language online history portal, and since 2024, she has been a member of the general editorial board of Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. In 2024, she spent seven months as a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, where she worked on finalising her dissertation. Her research focuses on early modern political thought, with an emphasis on eighteenth-century political theory, intellectual and conceptual history in Britain and continental Europe, as well as the study of political press and pamphlet literature of the period. In her upcoming dissertation, she examines the early modern conception and reception of the ‘balance of power’ as a key political concept, with a focus to its English and Hungarian discourses.

 

Selected publications:

Schvéd, Brigitta: “These are Great and Noble Occasions for a Good Cristian’s Joy” – Discourse on Peace and Balance of Power in the Political Sermons of John Adams (1662–1720). In: Boersma, Karla – Selderhuis, Herman J. (eds.): Wellbeing in Early Modern Christianity: Perspectives and Practices for a Happy Life. (Refo500 Academic Studies [R5AS], Band 102) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. pp. 225–255. DOI: https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109/9783666500855.225

Schvéd, Brigitta Kinga: Lengyelország első felosztása az erőegyensúly-diskurzus tükrében a kortárs londoni hetilapok véleménycikkeiben, Világtörténet 14 (46), no. 1 (2024): pp. 99–119. REAL: https://real.mtak.hu/197455/

Schvéd, Brigitta: “To Preserve that Balance of Power on which the Happiness and Prosperity of Europe Depend” – Discourse on the First Partition of Poland and the European Balance of Power in London Newspapers (1771–1774), RussianStudiesHu 6, no. 1 (2024): pp. 81–107. DOI: https://doi.org/10.38210/RUSTUDH.2024.6.5

Schvéd, Brigitta Kinga: The First Partition of Poland and the Issue of the European Balance of Power in Contemporary English Media (1772–1774), Specimina Nova Pars Prima Sectio Mediaevalis 11 (2021): pp. 203–225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15170/SPMNNV.2021.11.10

Schvéd, Brigitta Kinga: The Concepts of Universal Monarchy and Balance of Power in Charles Davenant's ‘An Essay Upon The Ballance of Power’ (1701), Specimina Nova Pars Prima Sectio Mediaevalis 10 (2019): pp. 251–263. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15170/SPMNNV.2019.10.13