The battle for Central Europe : the siege of Szigetvár and the death of Süleyman The Magnificent and Nicholas Zrínyi (1566) / edited by Pál Fodor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fodor, Pál, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Süleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566.

Süleyman.

Szigetvár (Hungary)--History--Siege, 1566.

Szigetvár (Hungary).

Hungary--Szigetvár.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : HAS Research Centre for the Humanities : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

In The Battle for Central Europe specialists in sixteenth-century Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian history provide the most comprehensive picture possible of a battle that determined the fate of Central Europe for centuries. Not only the siege and the death of its main protagonists are discussed, but also the wider context of the imperial rivalry and the empire buildings of the competing great powers of that age. Contributors include Gábor Ágoston, János B. Szabó, Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, Günhan Börekçi, Feridun M. Emecen, Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra, István Fazekas, Pál Fodor, Klára Hegyi, Colin Imber, Damir Karbić, József Kelenik, Zoltán Korpás, Tijana Krstić, Nenad Moačanin, Gülru Neci̇poğlu, Erol Özvar, Géza Pálffy, Norbert Pap, Peter Rauscher, Claudia Römer, Arno Strohmeyer, Zeynep Tarım, James D. Tracy, Gábor Tüskés, Szabolcs Varga, Nicolas Vatin.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Pál Fodor

Introduction / Pál Fodor

Ottoman Politics in the Reign of Sultan Süleyman: Government, Internal Politics and Imperial Expansion / Feridun M. Emecen

Transformation of the Ottoman Empire into a Military-Fiscal State: Reconsidering the Financing of War from a Global Perspective / Erol Özvar

State and Religion, “Sunnitization” and “Confessionalism” in Süleyman’s Time / Tijana Krstić

Law and Legislation under Süleyman I / Colin Imber

The Aesthetics of Empire: Arts, Politics and Commerce in the Construction of Sultan Süleyman’s Magnifijicence / Gülru Neci̇poğlu

Habsburg Dynastic Politics and Empire Building during Charles V’s Reign / Zoltán Korpás

The Central European Habsburg Monarchy in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century – Elements of Cohesion and Division / István Fazekas

Camerale, Contributionale, Creditors and Crisis: The Finances of the Habsburg Empire from the Battle of Mohács to the Thirty Year’s War / Peter Rauscher

“Clash” or “Go-between”? Habsburg–Ottoman Relations in the Age of Süleyman (1520–1566) / Arno Strohmeyer

Intangible Cultural Exchanges: Christendom’s Eastern Frontier as Seen by Philip II’s Ambassador Chantonnay (1566) / Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra

The Ottoman Conquest in Hungary: Decisive Events (Belgrade 1521, Mohács 1526, Vienna 1529, Buda 1541) and Results / János B. Szabó

The Ottoman Conquest and Establishment in Croatia and Slavonia / Nenad Moačanin

Ottoman and Habsburg Military Afffairs in the Age of Süleyman the Magnifijicent / Gábor Ágoston

Ottoman Defence System in Hungary / Klára Hegyi

Hungary, Vienna and the Defence System against the Ottomans in the Age of Süleyman / Géza Pálfffy

The Hungarian Frontier and Süleyman’s Way to Szigetvár according to Ottoman Sources / Claudia Römer and Nicolas Vatin

Tokaj, 1565: A Habsburg Prize of War, and an Ottoman Casus Belli / James D. Tracy

Miklós Zrínyi, Captain-General of Szigetvár (1561–1566) – His Organisational Activity and Death / Szabolcs Varga

The Sieges of Szigetvár and Gyula, 1566 / József Kelenik

Sigetvarname: A Visual Source of Sultan Süleyman’s Last Campaign / Zeynep Tarım

On Süleyman the Magnifijicent’s Death and Burials / Nicolas Vatin

The Memory of the 1566 Siege of Sziget and of Miklós Zrínyi in Hungarian Literary Tradition / Gábor Tüskés

The Entangled Memory of the Battle of Sziget (1566) in Early Modern Europe / Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik

The Memory of Nicholas IV of Zrin and the Battle of Szigetvár in Croatia and the Balkans / Damir Karbić

The Memory of Szigetvár and Sultan Süleyman in Ottoman/Turkish Culture / Günhan Börekçi

The Pilgrimage Town (Türbe Kasabası) of Sultan Süleyman at Szigetvár / Norbert Pap

Index of Personal Names / Pál Fodor

Index of Geographical Names / Pál Fodor.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-39623-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004396234 DOI