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Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe
Conceived as another chapter in the European history of religions (Europäische Religionsgeschichte), this book deals with the intense dynamics of the overlapping political, ethnic, and denominational constellations in Reformation and post-Reformation Transylvania. Navigating along multiple narrative tracks, and attempting to treat the religious history of an entire region over a limited time period in a differentiated, polyfocal way, the book represents a departure from the master narratives of any singularly oriented religious history. At the same time, the present work seeks to contribute to laying the groundwork at the micro- and meso-contextual level of East-Central European confessionalization processes, and to developing interpretive models for these processes in the region.
The Eugenic Fortress
The ever growing library on the history of eugenics and fascism focuses largely on nation states, while this monograph asks why an ethnic minority, the Transylvanian Saxons, turned to eugenics as a means of self-empowerment in interwar Romania. The Eugenic Fortress investigates and unpacks the eugenic movement that emerged in the early twentieth century, and focuses on its conceptual and methodological evolution during the interwar period. Further on, the book analyzes the gradual process of politicisation and radicalisation at the hands of a second generation of Saxon eugenicists in conjunction with the rise of an equally indigenous fascist movement. The Saxon case study offers valuable insights into why an ethnic minority would seek to re-entrench itself behind the race-hygienic walls of a 'eugenic fortress', as well as the influence host and home nations had upon its design. Georgescu's work is ground breaking in the sense that the history of this uprooted community is usually handled with sensitivity and serious (and critical) research into Transylvanian Saxon involvement with Nazism has been energetically resisted.
Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories in a Multiethnic Province, 1790–1918
Exploring Transylvania by Török reconstructs the fissured scholarly landscape in one of the most culturally heterogeneous regions of the Habsburg Monarchy. The author creates an original model of the structure and historical dynamics of an East-Central European province in the republic of letters by tracing the activities of learned societies engaged in the exploration of their fatherland and their connections to national academic centers outside Transylvania. Analyzing the entangled history of the local German, Hungarian, and Romanian scholarly cultures, the book demonstrates how a persisting politics of difference, practiced by various political regimes over the long nineteenth century, solidified national hierarchies and exacerbated endemic tensions both in the Transylvanian intellectual milieus and in scholarship itself.
Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania
The volume discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. Thus, it addresses one of the key questions of the new political system in post-imperial East Central and Southeast Europe. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective (capital – province, urban political elites – rural voters) to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies with a special interest in the predominantly ethnic Romanian population.
Clio Medica. Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae. Vol. 19
As periodical of the International Academy of the History of Medicine, this Clio Medica volume contains 19 papers.
Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe
Consisting of 12 chapters, the book presents the rise and development of environmentalism, environmental history as a discipline, and the history of environmental movements in the Central and South Eastern European region from an international point of view. The chapters—written by scholars from Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Greece and Turkey—cover a wide range of topics including the creation of protected areas, increasing environmental consciousness, the evolution of humanity’s relationship toward the environment, and perceptions of environmentalism by different disciplines. This international approach highlights the region’s complex development from...
Die ethnische Identität der Siebenbürger Rumänen
In Siebenburgen bestand seit dem hohen Mittelalter eine Vielzahl an Gruppenidentitaten, die sich aus der Beziehung und Abgrenzung zueinander definierten und das Spezifikum des Landes ausmachten. Nur sehr allmahlich entwickelte sich ausserhalb der bis ins 19. Jahrhundert dominanten Standeordnung ein Selbstbewusstsein der heute mit Abstand zahlreichsten Bewohner des Landes: der Rumanen. Sorin Mitu untersucht die Entstehung des Selbst- und des Fremdbildes dieser Gruppe und die Rolle, die Latinitat und Konfession dabei spielten. Er vergleicht die Rumanen auch mit den Nachbar-Ethnien der Ungarn, Deutschen und Roma sowie mit den Juden. Mit dieser fur Rumanien methodisch vollig neuartigen, von uberkommenen Mythen der nationalen Geschichtsschreibung befreiten Analyse bietet sich Mitu der mitteleuropaischen und westlichen Historiographie als kompetenter und ernstzunehmender Gesprachspartner an.
Konsolidierung des reformierten Bekenntnisses im Reich der Stephanskrone
In this volume, Jan-Andrea Bernhard explores the history of relations between Switzerland and Hungary in the 16th and 17th centuries.The starting point of this study is the question of why the majority Hungarians who embraced the Reformation subscribed to the Helvetic Confession in spite of the fact that contact with Germany had been more intense. The author investigates the source material and the relevant research literature and then, making use of those source materials the author investigates how the interchange of knowledge between Switzerland and Hungary took place during the early modern period.Due to its comprehensive source evaluation, the investigation de-mythologises the Hungarian (Church's) History in several areas, and in this regard is a milestone in the literature on the history of relations between Hungary and Switzerland.
Frei – Politisch – Sozial
Der Handlungsspielraum der Frauenbewegung innerhalb der ethnischen Minderheit der Siebenbürger Sachsen war durch den rumänischen Staat sowie die politische Selbstorganisation vorgegeben. Am Beispiel des Deutsch-Sächsischen Frauenbundes werden in diesem Buch die Widersprüche zwischen feministischen Emanzipationsansprüchen und mythisierten, ahistorischen Frauenbildern nationaler Diskurse untersucht. Der Bund war eine politische Dachorganisation verschiedener Gruppen, deren Vorläufer in die Epoche des österreichisch-ungarischen Ausgleichs reichen. Er trat für das Wahlrecht auf allen Ebenen ein und wurde als Teil des Deutsch-Sächsischen Volksrates anerkannt. Kontakte bestanden sowohl zu rumänischen Frauenverbänden als auch zu jenen anderer Minoritäten und zur internationalen Frauenbewegung. Das vom Bund weiter entwickelte universalistische Konzept der weiblichen Menschheitsaufgabe ging über die Grenzen der eigenen ethnischen Gruppe hinaus. Die Autorin legt eine Pionierstudie zur Geschlechtergeschichte der Siebenbürger Sachsen vor.
