Confession and Politics in the Principality of Transylvania 1644-1657.

• Superior document: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)
• Author: Kármán, Gábor.
• TeilnehmendeR: Selderhuis, Herman J.; Brown, Christopher B.; Frank, Günter.; Gordon, Bruce.; Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara.; Rasmussen, Tarald.; Soen, Violet.; Tóth, Zsombor.; Wassilowsky, Günther.
• Place / Publishing House: Gottingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: German
• Series: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 pages)

"'Confession and Politics in the Principality of Transylvania' is a survey of the changing role the confessional element played in the foreign policy of this East Central European principality, which has traditionally been seen as a counterexample to the confessionalisation thesis eve...

Table of Contents

• The confessional element in the 1644-1645 campaign of György Rákóczi I
• Transylvania on the political map of seventeenth-century Europe
• The Polish royal election of 1648
• Transylvania and Poland, 1649-1652
• Maintaining the international Protestant network : Zsigmond Rákóczi's marriage to Henriette of the Palatinate
• The Rákóczis and the Kingdom of Hungary, 1648-1652
• Transylvania and the restructuring of Eastern Europe, 1653-1655
• György Rákóczi II and the Hungarian estates, 1653-1656
• The Treaty of Radnót : a Protestant conspiracy?
• The confessional element of György Rákóczi II's foreign policy
• Conclusions or Does the reason of state chase away all other reasons?
• Appendix. A glossary of place names from the eastern half of Europe.