Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe
Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526-1691)
Biographical note
István Keul, Ph.D. (2000) in Religious Studies, Tübingen University, was Privatdozent at Berlin Freie Universität. From August 2009 he is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at NTNU Trondheim. He has published on the religious history of East-Central Europe including Religion, Ethnie, Nation und die Aushandlung von Identität(en) (Berlin, 2005).
Readership
All those interested in East-Central European religious history, European history of religions, and confessionalization, as well as church historians and religious studies scholars
Reviews
“István Keul has provided a helpful survey of religion and politics in Transylvania during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book is informed by a thorough engagement with existing studies about Transylvania’s religious history in a range of languages as well as by analysis of some printed sources.”
Graeme Murdock, Trinity College Dublin. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 62 (July 2011), pp. 614-615.
"István Keul has produced a solid publication that may become part of the standard literature itself."
Nicolai Staab, University of Erfurt, Germany. In: Religion, Vol. 41, No. 2 (2011), pp. 303-306.
"A valuable contribution to the English-language literature on this topic" and "a useful starting point for a student or for a scholar of some other corner of early-modern history who wants to begin exploring east-central Europe" [...] "lavishly illustrated."
Paul Shore, Brandon University, Canada. In: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 4 (October 2010).
"Die Monographie von István Keul erschließt die frühe Epoche in vertiefter Weise und erlaubt somit einen umfassenden und chronologisch aufgebauten Überblick über die Geschehnisse und Entwicklungen."
Astrid von Schlachta, Universität Innsbruck. In: sehepunkte 10 (2010), Nr. 10 [15.10.2010].
“István Keul hat ein sehr nützliches Handbuch für alle, die sich für die Religionsgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas interessieren, geschrieben."
Gábor Kármán, Universität Leipzig. In: Südost-Forschungen 69/70 (2010/2011), pp. 537-540.
Graeme Murdock, Trinity College Dublin. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 62 (July 2011), pp. 614-615.
"István Keul has produced a solid publication that may become part of the standard literature itself."
Nicolai Staab, University of Erfurt, Germany. In: Religion, Vol. 41, No. 2 (2011), pp. 303-306.
"A valuable contribution to the English-language literature on this topic" and "a useful starting point for a student or for a scholar of some other corner of early-modern history who wants to begin exploring east-central Europe" [...] "lavishly illustrated."
Paul Shore, Brandon University, Canada. In: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 4 (October 2010).
"Die Monographie von István Keul erschließt die frühe Epoche in vertiefter Weise und erlaubt somit einen umfassenden und chronologisch aufgebauten Überblick über die Geschehnisse und Entwicklungen."
Astrid von Schlachta, Universität Innsbruck. In: sehepunkte 10 (2010), Nr. 10 [15.10.2010].
“István Keul hat ein sehr nützliches Handbuch für alle, die sich für die Religionsgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas interessieren, geschrieben."
Gábor Kármán, Universität Leipzig. In: Südost-Forschungen 69/70 (2010/2011), pp. 537-540.
Table of contents
Preface
List of Maps and Figures
Prologue
1. Frameworks
2. The Region and Its Inhabitants
3. Political and Economic Developments Prior to the Reformation
4. The Reformation: Stages and Processes
5. Under Catholic Princes
6. Around the Turn of the 16th Century
7. The Rule of Gábor Bethlen
8. The Principality’s Golden Age and Decline
9. The Final Years
10. Denominational Toleration and Confessionalization
Appendix: Rulers, Church Leaders, and a Concordance of Place Names
Bibliography
Index
List of Maps and Figures
Prologue
1. Frameworks
2. The Region and Its Inhabitants
3. Political and Economic Developments Prior to the Reformation
4. The Reformation: Stages and Processes
5. Under Catholic Princes
6. Around the Turn of the 16th Century
7. The Rule of Gábor Bethlen
8. The Principality’s Golden Age and Decline
9. The Final Years
10. Denominational Toleration and Confessionalization
Appendix: Rulers, Church Leaders, and a Concordance of Place Names
Bibliography
Index
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