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

Contents\nFarewell to István György Tóth\nForeword\nI . Approaches and Historiographical Issues\nThe Religious Borderlines of the Confessionalization and Secularization of European Culture and Societies. Results and Perspectives of My Cooperation with István György Tóth\nThe Value of Foreign Sources for the Understanding of National History\nHungary and Bosnia 1387–1463. Between Stereotypes and New Interpretations\nII. Confessional and Religious Life\nII.1. Confessional Identities\nEucharistic Iconography and the Confessional Identity of the Saxon Community in Early Modern Transylvania\n“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\nThe Ambivalence of Exile. Hungarian Exiles in Germany in the Seventeenth Century\nThe Counter-Reformation and the 1672 Kuruc Revolt\nII.2. Symbol and Representation\nA Funeral and a Political Pamphlet: The Funeral Sermon for the Archbishop Johann Schweikard of Mainz in 1626\nThe Making of a Perfect Friar: Habit and Reform in the Franciscan Tradition\nII.3. Strife and Accommodation\nThe Politics of Church Unification: Efforts to Reunify the Utraquists and Rome in the 1520s\nSome Reflections on Uniatism in the Confederation of Poland and Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century\nII.4. Religion, Empire and Ideology\nThe Political Theologies of Empires: Jesuit Missionaries between Counter-Reformation Europe and the Chinese Empire\nConversion as an Instrument of Imperial Rule: The Case of the Russian Empire\nIII. Society and Culture\nIII.1. Order, Hierarchy and Cultural Capital\nThe “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\nLevels of Group Loyalty at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Kolozsvár in the Rákóczi War of Independence\nComparing the Enlightenment: Men of Letters and Intellectual Work in Eighteenth-Century Naples\nIII.2. Disorder, Discipline and Denunciation\nBurning Germany: Cities on Fire, Fire Fighting and Fire Insurance in Early Modern Germany\nOrthodox Demonology and the Perception of Witchcraft in Early Modern Ukraine\nPunishment in Sixteenth-Century Hungarian Towns\nIII.3. Word and Print, Education and Literacy\nReading Aloud: Between Oral and Literate Communication\nA Virgin Deserving Paradise or a Whore Deserving Poison: Manuscript Tradition and Printed Books in Ottoman Turkish Society\nEducation and Denominations in Transdanubia (1910)\nRegister of Geographical Names\nBibliography of István György Tóth\nList of Contributors\nIndex of Personal Names\nIndex of Geographical Names