Title Friars, Nobles and Burghers - Sermons, Images and Prints

Published Budapest : Central European University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (491 pages) Series JSTOR EBA Contents Farewell to István György Tóth / László Kontler -- Foreword / Jaroslav Miller and László Kontler -- pt. I. Approaches and historiographical issues. The religious borderlines of the confessionalization and secularization of European culture and societies : results and perspectives of my cooperation with István György Tóth / Heinz Schilling -- The value of foreign sources for the understanding of national history / Charles Kecskeméti -- Hungary and Bosnia, 1387-1463 : between stereotypes and new interpretations / Dubravko Lovrenović -- pt. II. Confessional and religious life. Confessional identities. Eucharistic iconography and the confessional identity of the Saxon community in early modern Transylvania / Maria Crăciun -- "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 / Márta Fata -- The ambivalence of exile : Hungarian exiles in Germany in the seventeenth century / Eva Kowalská -- The Counter-Reformation and the 1672 Kuruc Revolt / Georg B. Michels -- Symbol and representation. A funeral and a political pamphlet : the funeral sermon for Archbishop Johann Schweikard of Mainz in 1626 / Radmila Pavlíčková -- The making of a perfect friar : habit and reform in the Franciscan tradition / Martin Elbel -- Strife and accommodation. The politics of church unification : efforts to reunify the Utraquists and Rome in the 1520s / Antonín Kalous -- Some reflections on uniatism in the confederation of Poland and Lithuania in the eighteenth century / Daniel Tollet -- Religion, empire and ideology. The political theologies of empires : Jesuit missionaries between Counter-Reformation Europe and the Chinese empire / Ronnie Po-chia Hsia -- Conversion as an instrument of imperial rule : the case of the Russian Empire / Alfred J. Rieber Pt. III. Society and culture. Order, hierarchy and cultural capital. 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 / Joachim Bahlcke -- Levels of group loyalty at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : Kolozsvár in the Rákóczi War of Independence / Emese Bálint -- Comparing the Enlightenment : men of letters and the intellectual milieu in eighteenth-century Naples / Anna Maria Rao -- Disorder, discipline and denunciation. Burning Germany : cities on fire, fire fighting and fire insurance in early modern Germany / Cornel Zwierlein -- Orthodox demonology and the perception of witchcraft in early modern Ukraine / Kateryna Dysa -- Punishment in sixteenth-century Hungarian towns / Blanka Szeghyová -- Word and print, education and literacy. Reading aloud : between oral and literate communication / Zoran Velagić -- A virgin deserving paradise or a whore deserving poison : manuscript tradition and printed books in Ottoman Turkish society / Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih) -- Education and denominations in Transdanubia (1910) / Victor Karady -- Register of geographic names Summary 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 compell Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject Religion and culture -- Europe, Central -- History Religion and culture -- Europe, Eastern -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Civilization Religion Religion and culture Social conditions SUBJECT Europe, Central -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003840 Europe, Eastern -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045767 Europe, Central -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005000956 Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005643 Europe, Central -- Religion Europe, Eastern -- Religion Europe -- History -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045693 Europe -- History -- 1648-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045700 Subject Central Europe Eastern Europe Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Kontler, Laszlo LC no. 2010007100 ISBN 9789639776678 963977667X 9789633864609 9633864607 1283248379 9781283248372 9786613248374 6613248371

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