Our alumnus, Péter Szabó has his book "Woodland and Forests in Medieval Hungary" published at British Archaeological Reports. The book is based on his PhD dissertation he defended at our department.
In this work the author investigates the pre-Turkish Hungarian landscape and describes how medieval woodland functioned. (Particular attention is given to the woods around Pilis and Bakony.) In combining this with evidence still visible on the ground, the author goes further than seeing trees and woods as mere environment. His study is important in that it begins to trace a common tradition of cultural landscapes in north and central Europe, taking into account coppicing, royal forests, common and private woodland, pollarding, monastic usages.