Comparing the Enlightenment: Men of Letters and Intellectual Work in Eighteenth-Century Naples

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Farewell to István György Tóth ix
4. Foreword xiii
5. I . Approaches and Historiographical Issues
6. The Religious Borderlines of the Confessionalization and Secularization of European Culture and Societies. Results and Perspectives of My Cooperation with István György Tóth 1
7. The Value of Foreign Sources for the Understanding of National History 11
8. Hungary and Bosnia 1387–1463. Between Stereotypes and New Interpretations 33
9. II. Confessional and Religious Life
10. II.1. Confessional Identities
11. Eucharistic Iconography and the Confessional Identity of the Saxon Community in Early Modern Transylvania 47
12. “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 73
13. The Ambivalence of Exile. Hungarian Exiles in Germany in the Seventeenth Century 91
14. The Counter-Reformation and the 1672 Kuruc Revolt 107
15. II.2. Symbol and Representation
16. A Funeral and a Political Pamphlet: The Funeral Sermon for the Archbishop Johann Schweikard of Mainz in 1626 127
17. The Making of a Perfect Friar: Habit and Reform in the Franciscan Tradition 149
18. II.3. Strife and Accommodation
19. The Politics of Church Unification: Efforts to Reunify the Utraquists and Rome in the 1520s 177
20. Some Reflections on Uniatism in the Confederation of Poland and Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century 199
21. II.4. Religion, Empire and Ideology
22. The Political Theologies of Empires: Jesuit Missionaries between Counter-Reformation Europe and the Chinese Empire 211
23. Conversion as an Instrument of Imperial Rule: The Case of the Russian Empire 233
24. III. Society and Culture
25. III.1. Order, Hierarchy and Cultural Capital
26. The “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 249
27. Levels of Group Loyalty at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Kolozsvár in the Rákóczi War of Independence 281
28. Comparing the Enlightenment: Men of Letters and Intellectual Work in Eighteenth-Century Naples 297
29. III.2. Disorder, Discipline and Denunciation
30. Burning Germany: Cities on Fire, Fire Fighting and Fire Insurance in Early Modern Germany 317
31. Orthodox Demonology and the Perception of Witchcraft in Early Modern Ukraine 341
32. Punishment in Sixteenth-Century Hungarian Towns 361
33. III.3. Word and Print, Education and Literacy
34. Reading Aloud: Between Oral and Literate Communication 377
35. A Virgin Deserving Paradise or a Whore Deserving Poison: Manuscript Tradition and Printed Books in Ottoman Turkish Society 389
36. Education and Denominations in Transdanubia (1910) 411
37. Register of Geographical Names 427
38. Bibliography of István György Tóth 431
39. List of Contributors 447
40. Index of Personal Names 449
41. Index of Geographical Names 461