Description
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers a variety of scientific contributions, from young and experienced researchers alike, on the evolution of frontiers/borders, from the late Middle Ages to the end of the Early Modern Period (eighteenth century). The expansion of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, its diplomatic and military interactions with the Hungarian Kingdom, daily life in medieval borderlands, administrative and military organization of frontiers, transfer of military knowledge and technology, social and demographic impact of border warfare and the militarization of eighteenth century borders are some of the subjects approached by the authors. Their research provides a complex comparative perspective over a region which shares both common and divergent features with the rest of Europe.
Table of ContentsIoan Aurel Pop, Alexandru Simon : March 1475: The Italian Reception of Warfare on the Eastern Frontiers of Christendom — Zoltan Iusztin : Ratio Oeconomicam – War Economy at the South-Western Frontiers of the Hungarian Kingdom at the End of the Fifteenth Century — Adrian Magina : Living in fear. Life at the Southern Frontier of the Hungarian Kingdom (in the Fourteenth-Sixteenth centuries) — Nándor Virovecz : Ottoman advance on the North between the Capture of Buda and the Construction of the Border Fortress Line — Livia Magina : Cross-Border Mobility: War Refugees in Early Modern Transylvania — Gelu Fodor : An Eighteenth Century Constitutional Struggle: Institutions, Defence and Border Legislative Matters between the Imperial Court and the Transylvanian Diet — Liviu Cîmpeanu : Ad Retinendam Coronam. Military Organization at the Transylvanian Border in the Late Middle Ages: The Transylvanian-Saxon Militias — Florin Nicolae Ardelean : Frontiers and Military Organization in Transylvania: The Guardsman (Drabant/Darabont) during the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century — Csaba Izsán : Between Soldier and Guard: the Roles of the Town Mercenaries in the Late Sixteenth- Early Seventeenth Century Cluj (Klausenburg/Kolozsvár), Sighișoara (Schässburg/ Segesvár) and Brașov (Kronstadt/ Brassó) — Jelena Ilić Mandić : Making the Border and Frontiersmen. Militarization in Temeswarer Banat 1764-1775 — Csaba Horváth : Defending the Eastern Confines of the Habsburg Monarchy: A Forgotten Border Guard Regiment in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania — Julia Derzsi : The Border Fort and its Servants. Turnu Roșu in the Sixteenth Century — Gizella Nemeth, Adriano Papo : The Fortress of Eger in the Mid-Sixteenth Century on the Border between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire: the Siege of 1552 — Zoltán Péter Bagi : Raids and Sieges along the Habsburg-OttomnFrontier in Hungary: The Siege of Hegyesd: 31 March-9 April, 1562 — Ovidiu Cristea : Castello di Varadino passo principale della Transilvania: Giovanni Marco Isolano’s Relation on the Siege of Oradea (1598) — Florina Ciure : The Conquest of Oradea by the Habsburgs in Italian Sources (1691-1692) .
