Dionysos le Philosophe et l'Insurrection de la Basse Albanie de 1611

Author(s): Pëllumb Xhufi / Language(s): French Issue: 01+02/2000

The insurrection of Dionysus the Philosopher (or Skylosophe) of 1611 is, with regard to its results and implications, one of the most important liberation movements of the seventeenth century in all the Western Balkans. Unfortunately, Albanian historiography has not occupied itself at all, whereas in the last century this insurrection has become an object of study for Greek historiography.

“La guerre des miroirs”: Colbert et Murano, au regard de deux fonds des Archives d’Etat de Venise (1665-1667)

Author(s): Didier Bondue / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2010

Działania dyplomacji brandenburskiej w Polsce podczas elekcji 1674 roku

Author(s): Andrzej Kamieński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2015

Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, took advantage of the political crises in Poland to bargain his way to various kinds of profit. In 1648 he received for himself and his successors an exemption from the personal paying of tribute from the Prussian fief. Whereas in 1668 he took advantage of the chaos associated with the abdication of Jan Kazimierz to seize in a military manner the Drahim starosty, which since the Deluge was under dispute between Brandenburg-Prussian and the Polish Crown. When he gained independence in the Prussian Duchy in 1657 he also engaged himself in the political struggle associated with the appointment to the Polish throne. The Hohenzollern did not desire to see on the Polish throne neither a French prince nor a Habsburg protégé. His dream appointee was a weak ruler would have to constantly take into account the will and the demands of the Brandenburg electors. It was for these reasons that he supported the candidacy of Philip William, the Neuburg prince, during the interregnum of 1668/1669. After King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki’s death in 1673 the goals of the Brandenburg diplomacy reached a new level. For the two Morsztynowie — the great crown undertreasurer Jan Andrzej and the Lithuanian underequery Szczęsny — put forward a plan of appointing the eldest son of the Brandenburg elector, Karl Emil, to the Polish throne. He gained the support of the powerful senators, including the hierarchs of the Catholic Church — the crown deputy chancellor of the treasury, the bishop of Chełm, Andrzej Olszowski, and the bishop of Cracow, Andrzej Trzebicki. The perspective of the advancement of the house of Hohenzollern was so attractive that Frederick William was prompt to cede various lands and to grant to the Polish Republic considerable military support against Turkey. He gave up his dream of the royal crown being granted to his son only when the Polish party made his appointment dependent on the Hohenzollern’s acceptance of Catholicism. In this situation Frederick William decided on 20 March 1674 to support the candidacy of the Neuburg prince, John William. On the basis of a treaty contracted on 1 May 1674 he was supposed to receive from the Neuburg prince, after his possible ascension to the Polish throne, an extension of the succession in the Duchy of Prussia to include the side branch of the Hohenzollern family and the assurance of the rights and liberties for Evangelicals in Poland. The favourable turn of the election for Brandendburg-Prussia was to be conditioned by the intensifying rivalry of the leaders of the French and Austrian factions. However, the cunningly conducted diplomatic game of the electoral legate, Johann von Hoverbeck, was futile. The emperor’s ambassador manifested a complete lack of judgment and he did not support a compromise Neuburg candidacy by supporting Charles of Lorraine until the very end. Jan Sobieski’s election victory, the leader of the French faction, frustrated elector F. William’s...

ASPECTE COTIDIENE ALE VIEŢII ÎN CADRUL REŞEDINŢELOR BOIEREŞTI MUNTENE DIN SECOLUL AL XVII-LEA

Author(s): Vlad Andrei Maravela / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2011

Bulla antypapieża Jana XXIII odkryta w Brzeziu koło Opatowa

Author(s): Tomisław Giergiel,Marek Florek,Dariusz Wróbel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2015

The article analyzes the interesting relic discovered in the village of Brzezie near Opatów, that is a half of the lead impression of a papal bull. Such artifacts are usually kept in archives; in Poland only about 10 papal bulls have been found with the use of archeological methods, always near churches, and Brzezie is the only place where a bull was found despite the fact that there has never been a church there. Sigillographic analysis has allowed identifying the bull as Antipope John XXIII’s one. He was deposed during the Council of Constance in 1415, but he issued a number of documents concerning Polish lands and the Church of Poland including the Sandomierz and Opatów Church institutions and clergy that are discussed in the article. The authors (a sillographer, an archaeologist, and a mediaevalist) also point to the conditions under which the bull might find itself in Brzezie. In the article profiles are presented of three clergymen who had close relations with that place, or with the Lipńskis’ estate that does not exist today, on the area of which the bull was found. The clergymen were: the Dean of the Opatów Chapter Rafał of Brzezie (his name occurs in the years 1412-1438), the Canon of many Chapters, the royal secretary and diplomat Aleksander Brzeski (died 1650) and the Rector of the Virgin Mary Church in Opatów Karol Targowski (died 1942).

Princ Eugen Savojski u Velikom bečkom ratu do oslobođenja Beograda (1683.-1688.)

Author(s): Siniša Đuričić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 15/2015

A few months after his escape from the French capital, Prince Eugene of Savoy entered into the military service of Habsburg Emperor Leopold and took part in the tumultuous events of the Ottoman siege of Vienna in the summer months of 1683. Having distinguished himself in the front lines at the battle of Kahlenberg for the relief of the imperial city, under the command of his cousin and mentor, Margrave Ludwig of Baden, the young exile was noticed by the emperor who commissioned him the rank of colonel (oberst) and command over the dragoon regiment in December of the same year. The first siege of Buda in spring 1684 went disastrously ill for the Imperials and the Prince himself was wounded in the fighting. The second attempt, carried out by the joined forces of Charles of Lorraine and Maximillian Emanuel of Bavaria, was far more successful. After that, Margrave and Prince Eugene made a brief foray with their forces into Baranya, a preparation for the fruitful campaign that followed. On the field between two Hungarian cities, Mohács and Siklós, in the vicinity of the Harsány hill, on 12 August 1687 the Ottomans were decisively defeated and their army scattered. Prince Eugene himself stormed the Ottoman entrenchments and pursued the fleeing enemy through the Baranya marshes. This earned him the privilege to personally bring the report of this great victory to Leopold, who promoted him to the rank of Feldmarschall-Leutnant (comparable with the present rank of general major). The task of capturing Belgrade had been taken up by Maximillian of Bavaria, who laid siege of this city at the end of August 1688 with the force of 50 000 men. Heavily involved in the fighting, Prince Eugene received a grave wound to the knee, which forced him to leave the siege.

La France et la Méditerranée centrale entre 1660 et 1792

Author(s): François Brizay / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2013

A Territory of Grace: Lampedusa during Early Modern Times

Author(s): Simon Mercieca,Joseph Muscat / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

Walter Leslie Habsburg-követ látogatása a Portán

Author(s): Özgür Kolçak / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2016

The last point of the treaty of Vasvár, concluded on 10 August 1664 between the Ottoman and the Habsburg courts, declared that the two states would mutually send envoys to each other. Walter Leslie, who departed from Vienna on behalf of Leopold I, was exchanged at the border with Kara Mehmed Pasha, the representative of Mehmed IV, in the last days of May 1665. Tasked with reestablishing diplomatic relationships, the Habsburg envoy spent almost ten months on the soil of the Ottoman state. He held negotiations with Ottoman statesmen in both Istanbul and Edirne. The secretary of the Habsburg mission was keeping a diary of their travels, in which he recorded the resting places where the mission stopped on its way to Edirne; what the envoy did in the towns they visited; and described those events and celebrations that were organized by the Ottoman officials in honor of the diplomatic mission. The paper aims at outlining chronologically the diplomatic mission of the Habsburg envoy Leslie on the basis of the daily reports provided by the mission secretary, Leslie's reports, the memoirs and notes of some members of the entourage, and lastly using information from Ottoman archival documents containing financial registers related to the supply of the mission.

Emlékezés és felejtés: a kora újkori uralmi rend kialakításának kommunikációs technikái Alsó-Ausztria és Magyarország 16–17. századi történetében

Author(s): Arno Strohmeyer / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2016

Biblioteka przy kościele kolegiackim w Kurzelowie w okresie staropolskim

Author(s): Piotr Kardyś / Language(s): Polish Issue: 02/2005

Collegiate book collections from the Old Polish period – and the presented one belongs to them – are quite poorly described. In the case of Kurzelów we are in a rather good situation, since a fragment of the list of books that belonged to the collection in 1765 has been preserved. The inventory consists of 45 items, some of which contain a few books bound together. It seems that the discussed set of authors and works is typical, as far as the circle of collegiate and parish clergy is concerned. Taking this into consideration, it is proper to ask the question if the books were used by the local clergy in their pastoral work, and in the education process in the Kurzelów Collegiate school. Although an attempt to answer the question is hypothetical in its character, it still allows one to form a view of the level of teaching in the local school and of the intellectual formation of the Kurzelów clergy that did not differ much from other, similar centers of intellectual life of the Old Polish epoch.

Könyvszemle

Author(s): Mihály Etlinger / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2016

Dávid Molnár: „…az nagy tengerből való folyóvíznek sebessége…” UnitarianArchive Documents and Editions from Kolozsvár (Cluj) from the Era of GáborBethlen and György Rákóczi I (1613–1648). Kolozsvár (Cluj), 2016,Hungarian Unitarian Church. 504. p.

Spis szlachty ziemi wieluńskiej z 1633 roku

Author(s): Paweł Klint / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2016

In the town register from Wieluń containing entries from 1633–1634 placed a list of the nobilityof Wieluń land congregated on 4th April 1633 close to Wieluń (entitled Oblata lustrationis terraeVielunensis). The list of the Wieluń nobility from 1633 is a valuable source to know the land-owners of this area. There entered 236 nobles of Wieluń land (Wieluń and Ostrzeszów districts).Register of nobility started with a list of local officials, and next in random order it was listed therest of gentry living in that region.

Отварање рудника Самоков и Мајданпек 1691. године

Author(s): Srđan Katić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 27/2006

Żółte Wody (1648 r.): Planistyka oraz myśl operacyjno-strategiczna Bohdana Chmielnickiego w pierwszym etapie powstania kozackiego

Author(s): Ivan Gavryliuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The first year of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Uprising was marked by the great success of the Cossack and Tatar forces near Zhovti Vody, Korsun and Pyliavtsi. The Cossack and Tatar alliance influenced the further progress of the war. Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the first leader in Ukraine who not only understood but also applied the battlefield effectiveness of the combination of good Cossack infantry and light Tatar cavalry. Therefore, 1648 was the beginning of the great depression of old Polish military art. This article analyzes the operational-strategic idea of the Cossack leader during the Zhovti Vody campaign. Also the military planning on the Polish side is discussed, as all these factors were the reason for the first Cossack and Tatar victory. They predestined the fate of the 1648 campaign.

Solfatara, czyli dziesięć dni rewolucji rybaka. Z Maciejem Henem rozmawia Ewa Tyszko

Author(s): Maciej Hen,Ewa Tyszko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2016

Interviewed by Ewa Tyszko, Maciej Hen talks about the creation of his chronicle novel – Solfatara, which is set in 17th century Naples.Interviewed by Ewa Tyszko, Maciej Hen talks about the creation of his chronicle novel – Solfatara, which is set in 17th century Naples.

BIBLIOTEKA ŁOWICKIEGO KONWENTU DOMINIKAŃSKIEGO W POCZĄTKACH XVII WIEKU I JEJ KSIĘGOZBIÓR

Author(s): Tomasz Stolarczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 30-31/2010

Głównym celem Zakonu Braci Kaznodziejów było i jest głoszenie Słowa Bożego czyli kaznodziejstwo. Służyć temu miały specjalne studia dominikańskie, dające wykształcenie teologiczne oraz filozoficzne. W każdym klasztorze, już od momentu jego powstania, funkcjonowała szkoła konwentualna. Wg Krystyny Zawadzkiej „z kształceniem zakonników, a także z pełnieniem przez nich obowiązków kapłańskich (kazania, spowiadanie, odprawianie mszy) wiązały się nierozłącznie książki”.

Ón és réz a kolozsvári külkereskedelemben (1599–1637)

Author(s): Ferenc Pap / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1-2/2008

Based on the customs registers of Kolozsvár from the beginning of the 17th century the author analizes the foreign trade of the town from the perspective of tin and copper.

Liber baronatus a fejedelemségkori Erdélyben (1541–1658)

Author(s): Veronka Dáné / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: IV/2017

The essay explores the development and the history of liber baronatus throughout the first century of the independent Transylvanian state. In order to rectify the errors of preceding scholarly literature and to supplement sound but partial claims, the author primarily assembled – based on the acts of Parliament and on other kinds of sources from a wide spectrum – the inventory of territories and private individuals practicing their privileges of liber baronatus (either granted by the monarch or not). By the analysis of every known case, it is apparent that this concerns domains which, already before the division of the Kingdom of Hungary into three parts, on the one hand, belonged to the monarch, the treasury or the church (Görgény, Fogaras and Gyalu); or, on the other, possessed a special borderland status (Karánsebes, Máramaros). The research has also made it clear that one must separate a full-right liber baronatus (that is, the entirety of immunities of jurisdiction, administration and taxation) from one that uses/abuses one of the immunities listed. The liber baronatus can be considered as a consequence of the actual political situation, not as a result of organic development. Thus, it is not surprising that the recipients of such privileges (considered as alien by the Transylvanian estates of the realm) or their status of liber baronatus usually came to a violent end; and when the troubled times, that is, their heyday, had ended, the liber baronatus of private individuals practically ceased in Transylvania in mid-17th century.

„… Felette sok megbántódott emberek vadnak …” I. Rákóczi György és kolozsvári kereskedői

Author(s): Annamária Jeney-Tóth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: IV/2017

The present paper is based on a series of examinations of witnesses conducted between December 1636 and May/June 1637 in Transylvania and in the Kingdom of Hungary. The questions asked from four merchants from Kolozsvár/Klausenburg/Cluj ( János Boytos, Antal Kapusi, Jónás Debreceni/Jónás deák, and Miklós Váradi) concerned their support of István Bethlen and their anti-Rákóczi feelings. The merchants went to Vienna through Lower Hungary (for supplies and to sell the prince’s cattle), and discussed the fate of the country on the way, as their examinations show. They were anxious about their homeland, and, as it turned out, possessed a substantial amount of information. Their connections both with Gábor Bethlen and György Rákóczi exceeds the frames of a simple, civil citizens life. They served as merchants for the prince, and they preferred working for the Bethlens. They also carried out diplomatic missions, in this case, for Rákóczi. This paper gives a detailed presentation of their position among the merchants of Kolozsvár/Klausenburg/Cluj; of the role they played in municipal society; of their life; of their family background and social status; as well as of their career.