A kései konfesszionalizáció magyarországi jellegzetességeiről
On the Specificities of Late Confessionalisation in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: In this study I attempt to present some characteristics of late confessionalisation in the Kingdom of Hungary on the basis of various examples, which allow us an insight to the tumultuous local manifestations of the Catholic–Protestant relationship. The term “late confessionalisation”, created in the German-speaking scholarship, can be well applied for the Hungarian circumstances – obviously, taking the local specificities into account. The study on the one hand attempts to define the time frames of late confessionalisation in Hungary; on the other to show how the intention of the central power to create a new system of norms overwrote the interests of local landholders. For the Protestants in most territories of the country it meant only to allow the so-called private exercise of faith, which on the one hand drastically limited the freedom of consciousness of the people involved, but in contrast to other countries of the Habsburgs it made possible for the Protestant communities to legally preserve their confessional identities.

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