Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
Contents |
Preface -- Zone of conflict--zone of exchange : introductory remarks on early modern Hungary in diplomatic and information networks / by Szymon Brzeziński -- I. Hungary and Transylvania in the early modern diplomatic and information networks -- Re-orienting a Renaissance diplomatic cause célèbre : the 1541 Rincón-Fregoso Affair / by Megan K. Williams -- Iter persicum : in alliance with the Safavid Dynasty against the Ottomans? / by Pál Ács -- Transimperial mediators of culture : seventeenth-century Habsburg interpreters in Constantinople / by Dóra Kerekes -- The diplomacy and information gathering of the principality of Transylvania (1600-1650) / by Gábor Kármán -- An Italian information agent in the Hungarian theatre of war : Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli between Vienna and Constantinople / by Mónika F. Molnár -- II. Aristocratic politics and networks of information in the kingdom of Hungary -- The chances for a provincial cultural centre : the case of György Thurzó, palatine of Hungary (1567-1616) / by Tünde Lengyel -- The information system of the seventeenth-century Hungarian aristocrat, Ferenc Nádasdy (1623-1671) / by Noémi Viskolcz -- III. Politics, diplomacy and confessional networks -- Dynastic politics, diplomacy and the Catholic Church : Péter Pázmány's 1616 appointment as Archbishop of Esztergom / by Péter Tusor -- Shaping Protestant networks in Habsburg Transylvania : the beginnings (1686-1699) / by Bálint Keserű -- Contributors -- Index |
Summary |
Despite fragmentation, heterogeneity and the continuous pressure of the Ottoman Empire, early modern "divided Hungary" witnessed a surprising cultural flourishing in the sixteenth century, and maintained its common cultural identity in the seventeenth century. This could hardly have been possible without intense exchange with the rest of Europe. This three-volume series about early modern Hungary divided by Ottoman presence approaches themes of exchange of information and knowledge from two perspectives, namely, exchange through traditional channels provided by religious/educational institutions and the system of European study tours (Volume 1 - Study Tours and Intellectual-Religious Relationships), and the less regular channels and improvised networks of political diplomacy (Volume 2 - Diplomacy, Information Flow and Cultural Exchange). A by-product of this exchange of information was the changing image of early modern Hungary and Transylvania, which is presented in the third and in some aspects concluding volume of essays (Volume 3 - The Making and Uses of the Image of Hungary and Transylvania). Unlike earlier approaches to the same questions, these volumes draw an alternative map of early modern Hungary. On this map, the centre-periphery conceptions of European early modern culture are replaced by new narratives written from the perspective of historical actors, and the dominance of Western-Hungarian relationships is kept in balance due to the significance of Hungary's direct neighbours, most importantly the Ottoman Empire |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 14, 2015) |
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Politics and culture -- Hungary
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
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European history.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Diplomatic relations
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Political culture
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Politics and culture
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Politics and government
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Hungary -- History -- Turkish occupation, 1526-1699.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063053
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Hungary -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063073
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Hungary -- Foreign relations -- Europe, Eastern
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Eastern Europe
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Hungary
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Zarnóczki, Áron, editor.
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Brzeziński, Szymon, 1981- editor.
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ISBN |
9781443872973 |
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1443872970 |
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1322607761 |
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9781322607764 |
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