Hungary Between Two Empires 1526 1711

Author : Géza Pálffy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253054647

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Hungary Between Two Empires 1526–1711 by Géza Pálffy Pdf

The Hungarian defeat to the Ottoman army at the pivotal Battle of Mohács in 1526 led to the division of the Kingdom of Hungary into three parts, altering both the shape and the ethnic composition of Central Europe for centuries to come. Hungary thus became a battleground between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires. In this sweeping historical survey, Géza Pálffy takes readers through a crucial period of upheaval and revolution in Hungary, which had been the site of a flowering of economic, cultural, and intellectual progress—but battles with the Ottomans lead to over a century of war and devastation. Pálffy explores Hungary's role as both a borderland and a theater of war through the turn of the 18th century. In this way, Hungary became a crucially important field on which key debates over religion, government, law, and monarchy played out. Reflecting 25 years of archival research and presented here in English for the first time, Hungary between Two Empires 1526–1711 offers a fresh and thorough exploration of this key moment in Hungarian history and, in turn, the creation of a modern Europe.

Author : Robert A. Kann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 0520024087

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A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 by Robert A. Kann Pdf

A political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of the Habsburg empire, discussing the rise of Habsburg power, its subsequent status and action as a great power, and its dissolution.

Author : Robyn Dora Radway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780253066930

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Portraits of Empires by Robyn Dora Radway Pdf

"In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the German House, in Constantinople. In this centrally located inn, subjects of the emperor found food, wine, shelter, and good company-and left an incredible collection of albums filled with images, messages, decorated papers, and more. Portraits of Empires offers a complete account of this early form of social media, which had a profound impact on later European iconography. Revealing a vibrant transimperial culture as viewed from all walks of life-Muslim and Christian, noble and servant, scholar and stable boy-the pocket-sized albums containing these curiosities have never been fully connected to the abundant archival records on the German House and its residents. Robyn Dora Radway not only introduces these objects, the people who filled their pages, and the house at the center of their creation, but she also presents several arguments regarding chronologies of exchange, workshop practices, the curation of social networks and visual collections based on status, and the purposes of these highly individualized material portraits. Featuring 162 fascinating color images, Portraits of Empires reconstructs the world of Habsburg subjects living in Ottoman Constantinople, using a rich and distinctive set of objects to raise questions about imperial belonging and the artistic practices used to articulate it"--

Author : Béla Mihalik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004697683

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The Ever-Reviving Phoenix by Béla Mihalik Pdf

For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities due to wars, uprisings, and political conflicts. The Society of Jesus first settled in Hungary in 1561 during the period of Ottoman conquest. Despite their difficulties in a war-torn country, a network of Jesuit colleges was established as part of the Austrian Province, and the eighteenth century was a period of cultural and scientific prosperity for the Jesuits in Hungary. The Suppression of 1773, however, abruptly suspended this tradition for eighty years. After they resettled in Hungary in 1853, the Jesuits searched for new ways of apostolic work. The independent Hungarian Jesuit Province was established in 1909. The totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century posed fresh challenges. During the Communist period, the Hungarian Jesuit Province was forced to split up into two sections. The Jesuits in exile and those who remained in Hungary were reunited in 1990.

Author : Anthony Shay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031233364

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Folk Dance and the Creation of National Identities by Anthony Shay Pdf

This book is about the folk: the folk in folk dance, the folk in folklore, the folk in folk wisdom. When we see folk dance on the stage or in a tourist setting, which is the way in which many of us experience folk dance, the question arises are these the “real folk” performing their authentic dances? Or are they urban, well trained, carefully-rehearsed professional dancers who make their livelihood as representatives of a specific nation-state acting as the folk? Or something in between? This study delves more deeply into the folk, their origins, their identities in order to know the source of inspiration for ethno identity dances - dances prepared for the stage and the ballroom and for public performances from ballet, state folk dance ensembles and their amateur emulators, immigrant folk dance group performances, and tourist presentations. These dances, unlike modern dance, ballet, or most vernacular dances, always have strong ethnic references. It will also look at a gallery of choreographers and artistic directors across a wide spectrum of dance genres.

Author : Cédric Brélaz, Thomas Lau, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Siegfried Weichlein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111029337

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Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities by Cédric Brélaz, Thomas Lau, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Siegfried Weichlein Pdf

Author : Colin Joseph Heywood,Ivan Parvev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Austro-Turkish War, 1683-1699
ISBN : 9004409505

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The Treaties of Carlowitz (1699) by Colin Joseph Heywood,Ivan Parvev Pdf

The Treaties of Carlowitz (1699) presents studies on the Lega Sacra War of 1683-1699 against the Ottoman Empire, the Peace treaties of Carlowitz (1699), and the legacy of the conflict for Modern Europe, the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Katalin Szende,Erika Szívós,Boglárka Weisz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003851585

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Cities and Economy in Europe by Katalin Szende,Erika Szívós,Boglárka Weisz Pdf

Exploring new perspectives concerning regions traditionally considered “on the margins” of Europe, this book fills a gap in current historiography through its analysis of cities, space, and economy from the High Middle Ages to the present. Markets, trade, and economy in general have formed the backbone of urban life ever since the emergence of cities and towns, but classical theorists have largely focused on developments in Western Europe. Urban research in the last few decades has advanced in many ways to supersede and correct this still influential image and to include other parts of Europe into the analytical framework. Building on these emerging methodologies, this volume pays close attention to the fringes of Europe in the East, North, West, and South. The essays discuss the development of various spaces as nodal points for the exchange and production of commodities that took place in cities and towns. The scope of this work allows for a point of comparison to frequently studied examples in Europe, encouraging readers to identify larger patterns beyond individual examples. Cities and Economy in Europe: Markets and Trade on the Margins from the Middle Ages to the Present is the perfect resource for students and researchers of economic and urban history.

Author : Stefan Hanß
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000865790

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Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, c. 1550–1650 by Stefan Hanß Pdf

This microhistory of the Salvagos—an Istanbul family of Venetian interpreters and spies travelling the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mediterranean—is a remarkable feat of the historian’s craft of storytelling. With his father having been killed by secret order of Venice and his nephew to be publicly assassinated by Ottoman authorities, Genesino Salvago and his brothers started writing self-narratives. When crossing the borders of words and worlds, the Salvagos’ self-narratives helped navigate at times beneficial, other times unsettling entanglements of empire, family, and translation. The discovery of an autobiographical text with rich information on Southeastern Europe, edited here for the first time, is the starting point of this extraordinary microbiography of a family’s intense struggle for manoeuvring a changing world disrupted by competition, betrayal, and colonialism. This volume recovers the Venetian life stories of Ottoman subjects and the crucial role of translation in negotiating a shared but fragile Mediterranean. Stefan Hanß examines an interpreter’s translational practices of the self and recovers the wider Mediterranean significance of the early modern Balkan contact zone. Offering a novel conversation between translation studies, Mediterranean studies, and the history of life-writing, this volume argues that dragomans’ practices of translation, border-crossing, and mobility were key to their experiences and performances of the self. This book is an indispensable reading for the history of the early modern Mediterranean, self-narratives, Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, as well as the history of translation. Hanß presents a truly fascinating narrative, a microhistory full of insights and rich perspectives.

Author : Alex Drace-Francis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633865842

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The Making of Mămăligă by Alex Drace-Francis Pdf

Mămăligă, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from Ottoman times to the eve of the First World War, and also the image of mămăligă in art and popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources and with many new findings, Drace-Francis shows how the making of mămăligă has been shaped by global economic forces and overlapping imperial systems of war and trade. The story of maize and mămăligă provides an accessible way to revisit many key questions of Romanian and broader regional history. More generally, the book links the history of production, consumption, and representation. Analyses of recipes, literary and popular depictions, and key vocabulary complete the work.

Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674987623

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Iron and Blood by Peter H. Wilson Pdf

"First published in the United Kingdom by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Penguin Random House, 2022"--Title page verso.

Author : Stephen Sisa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039834093

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The Spirit of Hungary by Stephen Sisa Pdf

Author : Kateryna Dysa
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155053122

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Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials by Kateryna Dysa Pdf

Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials is an analysis of early modern witchcraft trials and legal procedures in Ukrainian lands, along with an examination of quantitative data drawn from the different trials. Kateryna Dysa first describes the ideological background of the tribunals based on works written by priests and theologians that reflect attitudes towards the devil and witches. The main focus of her work, however, is the process leading to witchcraft accusations. From the stories of participants of the trials she shows what led people to enunciate first suspicions then accusations of witchcraft. Finally, she presents a microhistory from one Volhynian village, comparing attitudes towards two "female crimes" in the Ukrainian courts. The study is based on archival research together with previously published witch trials transcripts. Dysa approaches the trials as indications of belief and practice, attempting to understand the actors involved rather than dismiss or condemn them. She takes care to situate Ukrainian witchcraft and its accompanying trials in a broader European context, with comparisons to some African cases as well.

Author : Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789637326615

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Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States by Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis Pdf

Notwithstanding the advantages of physical power, the struggle for survival among societies is not merely a matter of serial armed clashes but of the nation's spiritual resources that in the end always decide upon the victory. In Europe, there indeed exist independent countries, insignificant from the point of view of the entire civilization, and born by sheer coincidence, yet, this coincidence, this fancy, or diplomatic ploy that created them can just as easily bring them to an end---the nations that count in the political calculations are only the enlightened ones. Therefore, our nation should not merely grow in power, strengthen its character, and foster in people the feeling of love for homeland, but also---inasmuch as it is possible---breath the fresh breeze of humanity's general progress, feed it to the nation, absorb its creative energy. Until now, we have trusted and lived only in the weary conditions, conditions devoid of health-giving elements---now, as a result the nation's heart beats too slowly and its mind works too tediously. We ought to open our windows to Europe, to the wind of continental change and allow it to air our sultry home, since as not all health comes from the inside, not all disease comes from the outside.

Author : Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Történettudományi Intézet,István Barta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Hungary
ISBN : UOM:39015046366673

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A History of Hungary by Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Történettudományi Intézet,István Barta Pdf