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This book examines the ways in which ordinary people used a transnational papal court of law for disputing their private local hostilities and for negotiating their social status and identities. Following the career and routine crossovers of runaway friars, the book offers vivid insights into the late medieval culture of violence, honour, emotions, learning and lay-clerical interactions. The story plays itself out in the large composite state of the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia, which collapses under the Ottomans' sword in front of the readers' eyes. The bottom-up approach of the Christian-Muslim military conflict renders visible the rationalities of those commoners who voluntarily crossed the religious boundary, while the multi-tiered story convincingly drives home the argument that the motor of social and religious change was lay society rather than the clergy in this turbulent age

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Gabriella Erdélyi: Introduction -- Part I: Revolt Territories: European and Transnational Contexts -- Peter Blickle: Revolten in Europa 1200-1800 -- Katalin Péter: The Other Way. Negotiating Freedom in a Gutsherrschaft Country, the Kingdom of Hungary, in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Marco Gentile: In Search of the Italian "Common Man." Rethinking the 1462 Peasant Uprising in the Territory of Piacenza -- Part II: Utopia and Vision: Religious Radicalism -- Martin Rothkegel: Institutionalisierte Rebellion. Aufsässige Praktiken der Hutterischen Täufer in Mähren -- Pál Ács: Falsorum fratrum rebellio. Jenő Szűcs's Essays on the Peasant Revolt of György Dózsa 40 Years Later -- Zoltán Csepregi: Bund, Bundschuh, Verbundenheit. Radikales Gemeinschaftsprinzip in der frühen Reformation Ungarns -- Part III: Unfinished Pasts: Early Modern Narratives of Revolts -- Farkas Gábor Kiss: Ambiguity and Paradox in the Humanistic Literature of the Jagiellonian Age -- László Szörényi: Das Epos "Matthiados carmina heroica" von Ioannes Bocatius (Kaschau, 1614) -- Gabriella Erdélyi: The Memory War of the Dózsa Revolt in Hungary -- Gergely Tóth: Caught in the Web of Interpretations. The 1514 Peasant War in Early Modern Hungarian Historiography -- Part IV: Modern Images: Revolt Representations in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- Nataša Štefanec: Why Did Gubec Have to Die Dózsa's Death? Historical Representations of the Croatian Peasant Rebellion of 1573 and of Its Leader's Public Execution -- Márton Szilágyi: Der Bauernkrieg von 1514 als Exemplum. Die literarischen Dózsa-Interpretationen im 19. Jahrhundert -- Giorgio Politi: Spontane Generation einer Fälschung. Michael Gaismair und "seine" sogenannte Landesordnung

This case study explores the epistolary strategies of negotiating the mother-daughter relationship through a reading of the correspondence between a widowed mother and her two married, half-sister daughters. Drawing on recent scholarship which investigates how emotional practices shaped relations of power, this study seeks to highlight how differences in age, social rank, and position in the family hierarchy between the half-sisters provoked distinctive strategies of bargaining their bonds to their mother. Furthermore, it contrasts rhetorical tactics adopted in everyday communication and in moments of crisis and interprets such epistolary strategies in the context of performing filial/maternal identities and doing authority.

The case study investigates how the responsibilities of an early modern "anxious patriarch" modified in a stepfamily context. It focuses on the central concern of aristocratic patriarchs to secure the continuity of the lineage and transmit properties and governance by positioning a heir. By reading the testaments, correspondence and the exceptional series of instructions to his eldest son, the study depicts the strategies, which the aristocrat Miklós Esterházy adopted, and argues that these strategies served to solicit the compliance of and solidarity among kin, half-kin, and step-kin as well as his own image as a good father.

"Due to high adult mortality and the custom of remarriage, stepfamilies were a common phenomenon in pre-industrial Europe. Focusing on East Central Europe, a neglected area of western historiography, this book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life with Northwestern Europe. Why were women in the 'east' more ready to remarry? What were the responsibilities of a stepfather or a stepmother? By drawing on quantitative as well as qualitative approaches, the book offers an historical demographical narrative of the frequency of stepfamilies in a comparative framework, and also assesses the impact of stepparents on the mortality and career prospects of their stepchildren. The ethnic and religious diversity of East Central Europe also allows for distinctions and comparisons to be made within the region. Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900 will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in the history of family, marriage, and society in East Central Europe"--