Hungary's long nineteenth century : constitutional and democratic traditions in a European perspective : collected studies / / László Péter ; edited by Miklós Lojkó

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790253403321
• Autore: Peter L (Laszlo), <1929-2008.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, : Brill, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-49585-5; 9786613591081; 90-04-22421-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (499 p.)
• Collana: Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context, , 1877-8550 ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): LojkóMiklós
• Disciplina: 943.9/042
• Soggetti: Austria Foreign relations Hungary; Hungary Foreign relations Austria; Hungary History 19th century; Hungary Politics and government 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- Introduction / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- The Holy Crown of Hungary, Visible and Invisible / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- Ius Resistendi in Hungary / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- The Irrepressible Authority of Werbőczy’s Tripartitum / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- Montesquieu’s Paradox on Freedom and Hungary’s Constitutions 1790–1990 / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- Language, the Constitution, and the Past in Hungarian Nationalism / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- Lajos Kossuth and the Conversion of the Constitution / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- The Dualist Character of the 1867 Hungarian Settlement / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- The Autocratic Principle of the Law and Civil Rights in Nineteenth-Century Hungary / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- The Aristocracy, the Gentry and Their Parliamentary Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Hungary / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- Law XLIV of 1868 ‘On the Equality of Nationality Rights’ and the Language of Local Administration / László Péter and ; Miklós Lojkó -- The Army Question in Hungarian Politics 1867–1918 / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- Intellectuals and the Future in the Habsburg Monarchy 1890–1914 (with Robert Pynsent) / Robert B. Pynsent -- Church-State Relations and Civil Society in Hungary: A Historical Perspective / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- R. W. Seton-Watson’s Changing Views on the National Question of the Habsburg Monarchy and the European Balance of Power / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó -- Index / László Péter and Miklós Lojkó.
• Sommario/riassunto: László Péter, whose fourteen carefully selected essays are edited in this posthumous collection, was an indefatigable seeker of the most appropriate terminological modelling and narrative reconstruction of Hungary’s late nineteenth and early twentieth century progress from an essentially feudal entity into a modern European state. The articles examine thorny subjects, such as the growing tensions between the nationalities living within the multi-ethnic kingdom; language rights; autocracy, democracy and civil rights in Hungary perceived in a wider European context; the concept of the ‘Holy Crown’; the army question; church-state relations; the role of the intellectuals; and the changing British perception of Hungary. The central focus of the author’s microscope is reserved for a substantive re-evaluation of the Settlement between Hungary and the Austrian Empire in 1867, which had a decisive impact on the eventual fate of the old kingdom of Hungary and of the rest of Central Europe.

Where three worlds met : Sicily in the early medieval Mediterranean / / Sarah Davis-Secord

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812045903321
• Autore: Davis-Secord Sarah C.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-5017-1258-6; 1-5017-1259-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 945.8/02
• Soggetti: Christianity and other religions - Islam; Islam - Relations - Christianity; Sicily (Italy) History To 1500; Mediterranean Region History 476-1517
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. Sicily between Constantinople and Rome -- 2. Sicily between Byzantium and the Islamic World -- 3. Sicily in the Dār al-Islām -- 4. Sicily from the Dār al-Islām to Latin Christendom -- 5. Sicily at the Center of the Mediterranean -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Sicily is a lush and culturally rich island at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout its history, the island has been conquered and colonized by successive waves of peoples from across the Mediterranean region. In the early and central Middle Ages, the island was ruled and occupied in turn by Greek Christians, Muslims, and Latin Christians.In Where Three Worlds Met, Sarah Davis-Secord investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews. By looking at the island across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one ; dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.Sicily was a nexus for cross-cultural communication not because of its geographical placement at the center of the Mediterranean but because of the specific roles the island played in a variety of travel and trade networks in the Mediterranean region. Complex combinations of political, cultural, and economic need transformed Sicily's patterns of connection to other nearby regions-transformations that were representative of the fundamental shifts that took place in the larger Mediterranean system during the Middle Ages. The meanings and functions of Sicily's positioning within these larger Mediterranean communications networks depended on the purposes to which the island was being put and how it functioned at the boundaries of the Greek, Latin, and Muslim worlds.