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Lehota and the Green Spell_Hard Cover
I regard this book as a duty to honor my grandfather, Andras Lehoczky's memory. My intention is to present the Legend telling how my ancestor witnessed one of the most fundamental turn of the Human history: Genghis Khan's vast Mongol empire's rise and decline, the Muslim world's crisis and beginning of the still ongoing expansion as well as crumbling of the Roman Church's crusade and political superiority. The stage is the Central & Eastern European region and the Near East at the time of the crusades.
Ruthenians (the Rus’) in the Kingdom of Hungary (11th to mid- 14th Century)
This book presents a collective portrait of the inhabitants of Árpádian- and Angevin-era Hungary identified by their countrymen as Rutheni, illuminating their role in the social and political life of the kingdom.
Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania
This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region hitherto rarely taken into consideration in witchcraft research. Special attention is given to healers, midwives, and cunning folk, including archaic sorcerer figures such as the táltos; whose ambivalent role is analysed in social, legal, medical and religious contexts. This volume examines how waves of persecution emerged and declined, and how witchcraft was decriminalised. Fascinating case-studies on vindictive witch-hunters, quarrelling neighbours, rivalling midwives, cunning shepherds, weather magician impostors, and exorcist Franciscan friars provide a colourful picture of Hungarian and Transylvanian folk beliefs and mythologies, as well as insights into historical and contemporary issues.
Countess Dracula
This is the story of Elisabeth Bathory, a 17th-century Transylvanian countess. She was tried as a vampire and became an inspiration for depraved murderers up to the present day.;Based on research conducted at archives in Eastern Europe, this account includes both the recorded truth and the legend that has grown up around her. Tony Thorne is the author of the "Bloomsbury Dictionary of Slang".
Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione 31/2 (2022)
Mary Louise Pratt führte das Konzept der transkulturellen Kontaktzonen für die Beschreibung von überseeischen Kolonialraumen ein, doch erlaubt ihre flexible Definition sozialer Räume auch die Anwendung auf andere Regionen und Räume. So greift dieses Heft von "Geschichte und Region/Storia e regione" die Impulse, die Pratts Konzept anstößt, auf für die Untersuchung von Regionen in Zentraleuropa um 1900: Dabei richten die Aufsätze den Fokus auf die Habsburgermonarchie, während die Forumsbeiträge die räumlichen und zeitlichen Perspektiven erweitern. Die Schwerpunkte liegen bei Fragen der Mehrsprachigkeit, transnationaler oder transkultureller Kooperation sowie Wissenspraktiken in Kontaktzonen.
Carpatho-Rusyn Studies
The third volume of the annotated biblithography on Carpath-Rusyn studies contains over 800 entries in a wide range of disciplines: archeology, art and architecture, bibliography, biography, church history, economics, ethnography, geography, history, language, literature, and politics, among others. Each entry provides full bibliographic data followed by a succinct content analysis of the book, journal article, or book chapter in question. The bibliography is comprehensive and includes all publications that appeared between 1995 and 1999, regardless of language or place of publication. Appended are several statistical charts and a comprehensive index of authors and subjects.
The Monumental Nation
From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this “Magyarization,” large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—supposedly, the moment when the Hungarian nation was born. This exactingly researched study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which—far from cultivating national pride—provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians. Author Bálint Varga thus reframes the narrative of nineteenth-century nationalism, demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories.
Between the Living and the Dead
The author, one of the most highly respected scholars of historical anthropology, has undertaken extensive research on folk beliefs related to communication with the supernatural sphere. In this book, she examines the systems of such communication known by early modern Hungarians, and the role these systems played in the everyday life of the village. New types of mediators are identified such as "the neighborhood witch, " the healing witch, and the demons seen in dreams. Representing a major contribution to the most up-to-date international research, Eva Pocs draws on significant East European material and literature not previously coordinated with that from the West. In so doing, she makes a valuable contribution to a subject that has recently attracted the attention of several leading scholars.
