Book | The Battle for Central Europe

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New Book: “The Battle for Central Europe” 

The Siege of Szigetvár, the Death of Süleyman the Magnificent and Nicholas Zrínyi (1566)

“The Battle for Central Europe”, edited by Pál Fodor, [1]was published in February 2019 by BRILL.

“In The Battle for Central Europe specialists in sixteenth-century Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian history provide the most comprehensive picture possible of a battle that determined the fate of Central Europe for centuries. Not only the siege and the death of its main protagonists are discussed, but also the wider context of the imperial rivalry and the empire buildings of the competing great powers of that age. 

Contributors include Gábor Ágoston, János B. Szabó, Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, Günhan Börekçi, Feridun M. Emecen, Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra, István Fazekas, Pál Fodor, Klára Hegyi, Colin Imber, Damir Karbić, József Kelenik, Zoltán Korpás, Tijana Krstić, Nenad Moačanin, Gülru Neci̇poğlu, Erol Özvar, Géza Pálffy, Norbert Pap, Peter Rauscher, Claudia Römer, Arno Strohmeyer, Zeynep Tarım, James D. Tracy, Gábor Tüskés, Szabolcs Varga, Nicolas Vatin.”


[1] Pál Fodor, Ph.D. (1993), is Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published on the political, military, administrative, and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire including The Business of State: Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s–1615) (Berlin, Klaus Schwarz, 2018).

Contents 
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Preliminary Material 
By: Pál Fodor 
Pages: i–ix 

Introduction 
By: Pál Fodor 
Pages: 1–6 

Ottoman Politics in the Reign of Sultan Süleyman: Government, Internal Politics and Imperial Expansion 
By: Feridun M. Emecen 
Pages: 9–20 

Transformation of the Ottoman Empire into a Military-Fiscal State: Reconsidering the Financing of War from a Global Perspective 
By: Erol Özvar 
Pages: 21–63 

State and Religion, “Sunnitization” and “Confessionalism” in Süleyman’s Time 
By: Tijana Krstić 
Pages: 65–91 

Law and Legislation under Süleyman I 
By: Colin Imber 
Pages: 93–114 

The Aesthetics of Empire: Arts, Politics and Commerce in the Construction of Sultan Süleyman’s Magnifijicence 
By: Gülru Neci̇poğlu 

Habsburg Dynastic Politics and Empire Building during Charles V’s Reign 
By: Zoltán Korpás 
Pages: 163–177 

The Central European Habsburg Monarchy in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century – Elements of Cohesion and Division 
By: István Fazekas 
Pages: 179–192 

Camerale, Contributionale, Creditors and Crisis: The Finances of the Habsburg Empire from the Battle of Mohács to the Thirty Year’s War 
By: Peter Rauscher 
Pages: 193–212 

“Clash” or “Go-between”? Habsburg–Ottoman Relations in the Age of Süleyman (1520–1566) 
By: Arno Strohmeyer 
Pages: 213–239 

Intangible Cultural Exchanges: Christendom’s Eastern Frontier as Seen by Philip II’s Ambassador Chantonnay (1566) 
By: Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra 
Pages: 241–260 

The Ottoman Conquest in Hungary: Decisive Events (Belgrade 1521, Mohács 1526, Vienna 1529, Buda 1541) and Results 
By: János B. Szabó 
Pages: 263–275 

The Ottoman Conquest and Establishment in Croatia and Slavonia 
By: Nenad Moačanin 
Pages: 277–286 

Ottoman and Habsburg Military Afffairs in the Age of Süleyman the Magnifijicent 
By: Gábor Ágoston 
Pages: 287–307 

Ottoman Defence System in Hungary 
By: Klára Hegyi 
Pages: 309–319 

Hungary, Vienna and the Defence System against the Ottomans in the Age of Süleyman 
By: Géza Pálfffy 
Pages: 321–337 

The Hungarian Frontier and Süleyman’s Way to Szigetvár according to Ottoman Sources 
By: Claudia Römer and Nicolas Vatin 
Pages: 341–358 

Tokaj, 1565: A Habsburg Prize of War, and an Ottoman Casus Belli 
By: James D. Tracy 
Pages: 359–376 

Miklós Zrínyi, Captain-General of Szigetvár (1561–1566) – His Organisational Activity and Death 
By: Szabolcs Varga 
Pages: 377–395 

The Sieges of Szigetvár and Gyula, 1566 
By: József Kelenik 
Pages: 397–410 
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Sigetvarname: A Visual Source of Sultan Süleyman’s Last Campaign 
By: Zeynep Tarım 
Pages: 411–426 

On Süleyman the Magnifijicent’s Death and Burials 
By: Nicolas Vatin 
Pages: 427–443 

The Memory of the 1566 Siege of Sziget and of Miklós Zrínyi in Hungarian Literary Tradition 
By: Gábor Tüskés 
Pages: 447–477 

The Entangled Memory of the Battle of Sziget (1566) in Early Modern Europe 
By: Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik 
Pages: 479–507 

The Memory of Nicholas IV of Zrin and the Battle of Szigetvár in Croatia and the Balkans 
By: Damir Karbić 
Pages: 509–521 

The Memory of Szigetvár and Sultan Süleyman in Ottoman/Turkish Culture 
By: Günhan Börekçi 
Pages: 523–538 

The Pilgrimage Town (Türbe Kasabası) of Sultan Süleyman at Szigetvár 
By: Norbert Pap 
Pages: 539–552 

Index of Personal Names 
By: Pál Fodor 
Pages: 553–559 

Index of Geographical Names 
By: Pál Fodor 
Pages: 561–569