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Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century
This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three decades as well as suggesting new approaches to the history of preaching.
Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs
These essays, by the leading historian of the Austro-Hungarian empire, explore the political and religious history of the Habsburg lands. They also describe key aspects of the evolution towards modern statehood and national awareness in Central Europe over more than two centuries of cultural and social transition.
Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism 1753-1780
Author of the diplomatic revolution of 1756 and brilliant foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, State Chancellor of the Habsburg Monarchy (1753-1792), emerges from this study as the key figure in the development of enlightened absolutism and the guiding spirit behind the modernization of the state.
Christianity Under the Ancien Régime, 1648-1789
A study of Christianity in Europe, including, importantly, Britain in an important period of its development.
Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe
This book considers the emergence of a remarkable diversity of churches in east-central Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, which included Catholic, Orthodox, Hussite, Lutheran, Bohemian Brethren, Calvinist, anti-Trinitarian and Greek Catholic communities. Contributors assess the extraordinary multiplicity of confessions in the Transylvanian principality, as well as the range of churches in Poland, Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary. Essays focus on how each church sought to establish its own identity in a crowded market-place of religious ideas, and on the extent to which printed literature brokered the popular reception of religious doctrine. The volume addresses how ideas about religion spread within the largely illiterate societies of east-central Europe, especially through catechisms, and how printed literature was used to instruct congregations about doctrinal truth, to encourage the faithful to pious devotions, and to shape the religious life and identity of local communities.
Die seelsorgliche Tätigkeit der Kaschauer Predigerbrüder
Die Monographie stellt den ersten Versuch dar, die prinzipiell außerordentliche seelsorgliche Tätigkeit der Predigerbrüder von Kaschau (Košice) im 18. Jahrhundert in ihrem vielfältigen Kontext zu erfassen. Sie behandelt die Geschichte der Wiedererrichtung der dominikanischen Niederlassung von 1698 im Kontext der Bestrebungen der Habsburger um die Rekatholisierung der Stadt und der Bemühungen des Ordens um die Wiederbelebung der ungarischen Provinz und die allmähliche Konsolidierung des Klosters im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts. Ein spezielles Augenmerk wird der Situation der Dominikaner unter den großen theresianisch-josephinischen Reformen gewidmet. Es werden vier konkrete Seelsorgsber...
