Friars, Nobles and Burghers – Sermons, Images and Prints
The essays in this volume reflect the broader interpretation of culture as a system of shared meanings, values, attitudes and symbolic forms in any sphere of human life. Although thematically diverse, all these studies adhere to the concept of what is sometimes termed the new cultural history or socio-cultural history.
The work opens with a cluster of methodological and historiographical reflections. Topics covered by the thematic sections include confessional and religious life in early modern Europe, symbolism and representation, strife and accommodation among different denominations compelled to live in a common space, order and hierarchy, cracks in the machinery of authority and the threat of disintegration as well as the history of alphabetization, literacy and reading and writing practices.
This book pays tribute to István György Tóth (1956–2005), Head of the Department of Early-Modern History at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Professor of History at Central European University (both in Budapest), until his premature death in 2005.
László Kontler
Farewell to István György Tóth
Jaroslav Miller and László Kontler
Foreword
I. Approaches and Historiographical Issues
Heinz Schilling
The Religious Borderlines of the Confessionalization and Secularisation of European Culture and Societies: Results and Perspectives of My Cooperation with István György Tóth
Charles Kecskeméti
The Value of Foreign Sources for the Understanding of National History
Dubravko Lovrenović
Hungary and Bosnia 1387–1463: Between Stereotypes and New Interpretations
II. Confessional and Religious Life
II.1. Confessional Identities
Maria Crăciun
Eucharistic Iconography and the Confessional Identity of the Saxon Community in Early Modern Transylvania
Márta Fata
“Wider den grausamen Erbfeind deß Christlichen Nahmens”: Lutheran Military Chaplains from Württemberg in the Hungarian Wars against the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Eva Kowalská
The Ambivalence of Exile: Hungarian Exiles in Germany in the Seventeenth Century
Georg B. Michels
The Counter-Reformation and the 1672 Kuruc Revolt
II.2. Symbol and Representation
Radmila Pavlíčková
A Funeral and a Political Pamphlet: The Funeral Sermon for Archbishop Johann Schweikard of Mainz in 1626
Martin Elbel
The Making of a Perfect Friar: Habit and Reform in the Franciscan Tradition
II.3. Strife and Accommodation
Antonín Kalous
The Politics of Church Unification: Efforts to Reunify the Utraquists and Rome in the 1520s
Daniel Tollet
Some Reflections on Uniatism in the Confederation of Poland and Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
II.4. Religion, Empire and Ideology
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia
The Political Theologies of Empires: Jesuit Missionaries between Counter-Reformation Europe and the Chinese Empire
Alfred J. Rieber
Conversion as an Instrument of Imperial Rule: The Case of the Russian Empire
III. Society and Culture
III.1. Order, Hierarchy and Cultural Capital
Joachim Bahlcke
The “Bishops of the Hungarian Crown”: A Case Study in the Ecclesiastical, Social and Constitutional History of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in South-Eastern Europe
Emese Bálint
Levels of Group Loyalty at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Kolozsvár in the Rákóczi War of Independence
Anna Maria Rao
Comparing the Enlightenment: Men of Letters and the Intellectual Milieu in Eighteenth-Century Naples
III.2. Disorder, Discipline and Denunciation
Cornel Zwierlein
Burning Germany: Cities on Fire, Fire Fighting and Fire Insurance in Early Modern Germany
Kateryna Dysa
Orthodox Demonology and the Perception of Witchcraft in Early Modern Ukraine
Blanka Szeghyová
Punishment in Sixteenth Century Hungarian Towns
III.3. Word and Print, Education and Literacy
Zoran Velagić
Reading Aloud: Between Oral and Literate Communication
Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih)
A Virgin Deserving Paradise or a Whore Deserving Poison: Manuscript Tradition and Printed Books in Ottoman Turkish Society
Victor Karady
Education and Denominations in Transdanubia (1910)
Register of Geographic Names
István György Tóth’s Bibliography
List of Contributors