The Church-Union of the Armenians in Transylvania (1685-1715)

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-525-50354-6
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 559 g

Reihe: Refo500 academic studies

The 17th and 18th centuries have been regarded as one of the most exciting periods in the history of Hungary and Transylvania. The wars of liberation to terminate the Ottoman occupation, the integration of the Transylvanian Principality into the Habsburg Empire after 150-years’ relative independence, the colonisation of the uncultivated lands during the Ottoman rule, the re-organisation of daily life and Prince Francis (Ferenc) Rákóczi’s independence war (1703–1711) indicated serious challenges for the Habsburg Court in Vienna. This period (1686-1711) felled serious duties to the Hungarian Catholic Church, too. Prior to these duties, the process of Counter-Reformation in Hungary’s eastern and northern regions was getting increasingly under way: Orthodox Ruthenians and Romanians in Transylvania united with the Roman Catholic Church. The bishops, who were highly supported by the missionaries delegated from Rome in order to re-organise the Hungarian Catholic Church’s religious life, re-appeared at the seats of the abandoned dioceses after the 150-years’ Ottoman occupation and nearly 110-years’ pressure from the strong Protestantism supported by the Princes of Transylvania. The Armenians’ church-union in Transylvania must be, in fact, analysed in this church-historical context. The history of Armenians in Transylvania, escaping from Moldavia and Podolia between 1668 and 1672, should be regarded practically as an undiscovered area from both the Hungarian and international church-historical point of view. The church-union of the Armenians in Transylvania is primarily associated with Bishop Oxendio Virziresco’s (1654–1715), an Armenian Uniate cleric educated at Collegium Urbanum in Rome, missionary efforts. In this work, I have tried to look for evident responses to these afore-mentioned problems, resting on the partly discovered and undiscovered sources as well as analysing critically a few of secondary literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nagy, Kornél

Brown, Christopher B.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brown, Christopher B.

Frank, Günter

Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara

Rasmussen, Tarald

Soen, Violet

Tóth, Zsombor

Wassilowsky, Günther

Westphal, Siegrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Westphal, Siegrid
Prof. Dr. Siegrid Westphal ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Osnabrück sowie Direktorin des Forschungszentrums Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit.

Tóth, Zsombor
Dr. Zsombor Tóth is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Literary Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Frank, Günter
Dr. Günter Frank ist Direktor der Europäischen Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten und außerplanmäßiger Professor am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.

Nagy, Kornél
PhD Kornél Nagy is Historian, Armenologist and Research Fellow.

Soen, Violet
Dr. Violet Soen is Associate Professor for Early Modern History at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leuven.

Brown, Christopher B.
Dr. Christopher B. Brown is Associate Professor of Church History at Boston University.

Rasmussen, Tarald
Tarald Rasmussen ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Oslo.

Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara
Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer ist Professorin em. für „Neuere deutsche Literatur“ an der Universität Bern.

Wassilowsky, Günther
Dr. Günther Wassilowsky ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.