Friars, Nobles and Burghers - Sermons, Images and Prints : Studies of Culture and Society in Early-Modern Europe - in Memoriam István György Tóth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Jaroslav.

Contributor:

Kontler, László.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and culture--Europe, Central--History.

Religion and culture.

Religion and culture--Europe, Eastern--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 pages)

Other Title:

Friars, Nobles and Burghers - Sermons, Images and Prints

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2010.

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 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Farewell to István György Tóth

Foreword

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

The Value of Foreign Sources for the Understanding of National History

Hungary and Bosnia 1387–1463. Between Stereotypes and New Interpretations

II. Confessional and Religious Life

II.1. Confessional Identities

Eucharistic Iconography and the Confessional Identity of the Saxon Community in Early Modern Transylvania

“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

The Ambivalence of Exile. Hungarian Exiles in Germany in the Seventeenth Century

The Counter-Reformation and the 1672 Kuruc Revolt

II.2. Symbol and Representation

A Funeral and a Political Pamphlet: The Funeral Sermon for the Archbishop Johann Schweikard of Mainz in 1626

The Making of a Perfect Friar: Habit and Reform in the Franciscan Tradition

II.3. Strife and Accommodation

The Politics of Church Unification: Efforts to Reunify the Utraquists and Rome in the 1520s

Some Reflections on Uniatism in the Confederation of Poland and Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century

II.4. Religion, Empire and Ideology

The Political Theologies of Empires: Jesuit Missionaries between Counter-Reformation Europe and the Chinese Empire

Conversion as an Instrument of Imperial Rule: The Case of the Russian Empire

III. Society and Culture

III.1. 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

Levels of Group Loyalty at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Kolozsvár in the Rákóczi War of Independence

Comparing the Enlightenment: Men of Letters and Intellectual Work in Eighteenth-Century Naples

III.2. Disorder, Discipline and Denunciation

Burning Germany: Cities on Fire, Fire Fighting and Fire Insurance in Early Modern Germany

Orthodox Demonology and the Perception of Witchcraft in Early Modern Ukraine

Punishment in Sixteenth-Century Hungarian Towns

III.3. Word and Print, Education and Literacy

Reading Aloud: Between Oral and Literate Communication

A Virgin Deserving Paradise or a Whore Deserving Poison: Manuscript Tradition and Printed Books in Ottoman Turkish Society

Education and Denominations in Transdanubia (1910)

Register of Geographical Names

Bibliography of István György Tóth

List of Contributors

Index of Personal Names

Index of Geographical Names

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789633864609

9633864607

OCLC:

1338021181