A Divided Hungary in Europe : Exchanges, Networks and Representations, 1541-1699; Volumes 1-3.

Intro -- A Divided Hungary in Europe Volume 1 -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Touring Europe -- Changing Attitudes towards Study Tours among the Transylvanian Elite -- From Padua to Leiden -- The Influence of Dutch Universities on the Education of Seventeenth-Century Hungarian Intellectuals -- Bridges to Königsberg -- The Role of Albert Szenci Molnár in the Exchange of Ideas and Political Knowledge among the European Calvinist Principalities in the Early Seventeenth Century -- Henry Oldenburg and the Mines of Hungary -- Alchemy and the Jesuits -- Martinus Cseles, SJ, Brother Julianus and the Rediscovery of Magna Hungaria -- Local Access to Global Knowledge -- Hungary and Transylvania and the European Publishing Centres in the Sixteenth Century -- Foreign Musicians and Their Influence in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Hungary -- Contributors -- Index -- A Divided Hungary in Europe Volume 2 -- Contents -- Preface -- Zone of Conflict-Zone of Exchange -- I. Hungary and Transylvania in the Early Modern Diplomaticand Information Networks -- Re-Orienting a Renaissance Diplomatic Cause Célèbre -- Iter Persicum -- Transimperial Mediators of Culture -- The Diplomacy and Information Gathering of the Principality of Transylvania (1600í1650) -- An Italian Information Agent in the Hungarian Theatre of War -- II. Aristocratic Politics and Networks of Information in the Kingdom of Hungary -- The Chances for a Provincial Cultural Centre -- The Information System of the Seventeenth-Century HungarianAristocrat, Ferenc Nádasdy (1623í1671) -- III. Politics, Diplomacy and Confessional Networks -- Dynastic Politics, Diplomacy and the Catholic Church -- Shaping Protestant Networks in Habsburg Transylvania -- Contributors -- Index -- A Divided Hungary in Europe Volume 3 -- Contents - Volume 3 -- Preface -- In Search of Hungary in Europe.

The Genesis and Metamorphosis of Images of Hungary in the Holy Roman Empire -- The fertilitas Pannoniae Topos in German Literature after the Second Siege of Vienna in 1683 -- Forms and Functions of the Image of Hungary in Poland-Lithuania -- Hungary and the Hungarians in Italian Public Opinion during and after the Long Turkish War -- The Perception of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary-Croatiain Croatian Historiography (1500-1660) -- Hungarians in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Moldavianand Wallachian Chronicles -- Crown and Kingdom in the Republic -- Buda's Reconquest (1686) and the Image of Hungarians, Ottomansand Habsburgs in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drama -- Contributors -- Index -- Blank Page.

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 its 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.

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