A Divided Hungary in Europe

Exchanges, Networks and Representations, 1541-1699; Volumes 1-3
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ISBN: 978-1-4438-7128-0
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 738 Seiten

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 this 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Almási, Gábor

Brzezinski, Szymon

Horn, Ildikó

Teszelszky, Kees

Zarnóczki, Áron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

The editors of the volumes—Gábor Almási, Szymon Brzezinski, Ildikó Horn, Kees Teszelszky and Áron Zarnóczki—are based at Hungarian, Polish and Dutch institutions of historical research. Their collaboration is the result of a joint research programme generously financed by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund.

Gábor Almási is a Research Fellow at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University and University College London, and obtained his PhD at the Central European University in Budapest. His publications include The Uses of Humanism: Andreas Dudith (1533–1589), Johannes Sambucus (1531–1584), and the East Central European Republic of Letters (Leiden 2009).

Szymon Brzezinski is a PhD student at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, and Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History of Hungary, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research concentrates on the history of Polish-Hungarian relations, with his PhD project focusing on Polish-Transylvanian relations in the years 1539–1571. He is the author of the book Tanulmányok a 16.–17. századi lengyel-erdélyi-magyar kapcsolattörténetrol [Studies of the History of Relationships between Poland, Transylvania and Hungary in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries] (2014).

Ildikó Horn is a Lecturer and Head of the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History of Hungary at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, from where she also graduated and obtained her PhD. She studies the history of politics, culture and mentality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Hungary and Transylvania. Her publications include Hit és hatalom: az erdélyi unitárius nemesség 16. századi története [Faith and Power: The History of 16th-century Unitarian Nobility in Transylvania] (2009).

Kees Teszelszky is a Research Fellow at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest and Temporary Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He graduated from Leiden and Amsterdam, and obtained his PhD in Groningen (2006). His publications include Az ismeretlen korona. Jelentések, szimbólumok és nemzeti identitás [The Unknown Crown: Meanings, Symbols and National Identity] (2009).

Áron Zarnóczki is a PhD student at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History of Hungary at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. His research interests include the history of Hungary’s and Transylvania’s early modern diplomatic relations, with special regard to England, and the history of the English embassy at Constantinople. He has been the author of several articles, the editor of four volumes, and has organised several conferences.