Friars, Nobles and Burghers – Sermons, Images
and Prints
Studies of Culture and Society in Early-Modern Europe
In Memoriam István György Tóth
Edited by
Jaroslav Miller, Palacky University,
Olomouc, Czech Republic
László Kontler, Central European University,
Budapest
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.
Contents
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, ; 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
2010
490 pages
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