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The battle for central europe : the siege of szigetvar and the death of suleyman the magnificent and nicholas zrinyi (1566) /

Fodor, Pal.

The battle for central europe : the siege of szigetvar and the death of suleyman the magnificent and nicholas zrinyi (1566) / Pal Fodor. - 1 online resource. - Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341 . - Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341. .

Preliminary Material / Introduction / Ottoman Politics in the Reign of Sultan Süleyman: Government, Internal Politics and Imperial Expansion / Transformation of the Ottoman Empire into a Military-Fiscal State: Reconsidering the Financing of War from a Global Perspective / State and Religion, “Sunnitization” and “Confessionalism” in Süleyman’s Time / Law and Legislation under Süleyman I / The Aesthetics of Empire: Arts, Politics and Commerce in the Construction of Sultan Süleyman’s Magnifijicence / Habsburg Dynastic Politics and Empire Building during Charles V’s Reign / The Central European Habsburg Monarchy in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century – Elements of Cohesion and Division / Camerale, Contributionale, Creditors and Crisis: The Finances of the Habsburg Empire from the Battle of Mohács to the Thirty Year’s War / “Clash” or “Go-between”? Habsburg–Ottoman Relations in the Age of Süleyman (1520–1566) / Intangible Cultural Exchanges: Christendom’s Eastern Frontier as Seen by Philip II’s Ambassador Chantonnay (1566) / The Ottoman Conquest in Hungary: Decisive Events (Belgrade 1521, Mohács 1526, Vienna 1529, Buda 1541) and Results / The Ottoman Conquest and Establishment in Croatia and Slavonia / Ottoman and Habsburg Military Afffairs in the Age of Süleyman the Magnifijicent / Ottoman Defence System in Hungary / Hungary, Vienna and the Defence System against the Ottomans in the Age of Süleyman / The Hungarian Frontier and Süleyman’s Way to Szigetvár according to Ottoman Sources / Tokaj, 1565: A Habsburg Prize of War, and an Ottoman Casus Belli / Miklós Zrínyi, Captain-General of Szigetvár (1561–1566) – His Organisational Activity and Death / The Sieges of Szigetvár and Gyula, 1566 / Sigetvarname: A Visual Source of Sultan Süleyman’s Last Campaign / On Süleyman the Magnifijicent’s Death and Burials / The Memory of the 1566 Siege of Sziget and of Miklós Zrínyi in Hungarian Literary Tradition / The Entangled Memory of the Battle of Sziget (1566) in Early Modern Europe / The Memory of Nicholas IV of Zrin and the Battle of Szigetvár in Croatia and the Balkans / The Memory of Szigetvár and Sultan Süleyman in Ottoman/Turkish Culture / The Pilgrimage Town (Türbe Kasabası) of Sultan Süleyman at Szigetvár / Index of Personal Names / Index of Geographical Names / Pál Fodor -- Pál Fodor -- Feridun M. Emecen -- Erol Özvar -- Tijana Krstić -- Colin Imber -- Gülru Neci̇poğlu -- Zoltán Korpás -- István Fazekas -- Peter Rauscher -- Arno Strohmeyer -- Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra -- János B. Szabó -- Nenad Moačanin -- Gábor Ágoston -- Klára Hegyi -- Géza Pálfffy -- Claudia Römer and Nicolas Vatin -- James D. Tracy -- Szabolcs Varga -- József Kelenik -- Zeynep Tarım -- Nicolas Vatin -- Gábor Tüskés -- Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik -- Damir Karbić -- Günhan Börekçi -- Norbert Pap -- Pál Fodor -- Pál Fodor.

In The Battle for Central Europe specialists in sixteenth-century Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian history provide the most comprehensive picture possible of a battle that determined the fate of Central Europe for centuries. Not only the siege and the death of its main protagonists are discussed, but also the wider context of the imperial rivalry and the empire buildings of the competing great powers of that age. Contributors include Gábor Ágoston, János B. Szabó, Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, Günhan Börekçi, Feridun M. Emecen, Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra, István Fazekas, Pál Fodor, Klára Hegyi, Colin Imber, Damir Karbić, József Kelenik, Zoltán Korpás, Tijana Krstić, Nenad Moačanin, Gülru Neci̇poğlu, Erol Özvar, Géza Pálffy, Norbert Pap, Peter Rauscher, Claudia Römer, Arno Strohmeyer, Zeynep Tarım, James D. Tracy, Gábor Tüskés, Szabolcs Varga, Nicolas Vatin.

9789004396234

10.1163/9789004396234 DOI

2019930442


Death.


Hungary--Szigetvár.

DB999.S94 / B288 2019

940.2