The Princes of Transylvania in the Thirty Years War / / edited by Gábor Kármán.

• Superior document: Central and Eastern Europe ; 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Kármán, Gábor,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn : : Ferdinand Schöningh, Brill Deutschland,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Central and Eastern Europe ; 10.; Schöningh and Fink Early Modern and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 pages)

This collection of essays presents various aspects of a group of participants in the Thirty Years War which hitherto received only cursory attention in international research context: the princes of Transylvania. Experts of the specific fields present up-to-date summaries as well as fresh results on questions of military history, diplomatic contacts, war finances, media history and discourses in political communication related to the activities of Gábor Bethlen and György Rákóczi I. Special attention is dedicated to the peculiar characteristic of the Transylvanian involvement in the great European conflict – the Ottoman threat, which derived from the fact that the principality was one of the sultan’s Christian tributaries.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Introduction / Gábor Kármán -- Chapter 1 The Kingdom of Hungary in the Thirty Years War / Géza Pálffy -- Chapter 2 The Army of the Principality of Transylvania in the Period of the Thirty Years War / János B. Szabó -- Chapter 3 Gábor Bethlen’s Armies in the Thirty Years War -- Chapter 4 The 1644–1645 Campaign of György Rákóczi I / István Czigány -- Chapter 5 The Fiscal Capacity and War Expenses of Transylvania and the Habsburg Monarchy during the Rules of Gábor Bethlen and Ferdinand II: A Comparison / István Kenyeres -- Chapter 6 Ottoman Auxiliary Troops in Gábor Bethlen’s Armies 1619–1626 / Balázs Sudár -- Chapter 7 The Thorny Path to an Uneasy Alliance: Transylvanian–Swedish Negotiations 1626–1643 / Gábor Kármán -- Chapter 8 Transylvania and France in the Thirty Years War: The Origins of a Treaty / Zsuzsanna Hámori Nagy -- Chapter 9 The Problem of Ottoman Alliance: Gábor Bethlen the “Turkish” Prince in Contemporary Propaganda and Politics / Gábor Almási -- Chapter 10 The Political Image of Transylvania in the Propaganda of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War / Nóra G. Etényi -- Chapter 11 The Bethlen-Campaigns and the Change of the Early Modern Image of Hungary and Transylvania in the Dutch Republic / Kees Teszelszky -- Chapter 12 The Thirty Years War in Hungary as Religious War / Gábor Kármán -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe -- Index.