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Béla Vilmos Mihalik

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Early modern church and social history of Hungary and Transylvania, especially parish politics, popular sociability and late Catholic confessionalization. And everything with genealogy and family history 🙈 🏡 Budapest, Hungary ❤️ Vienna, Austria

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Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70 The internationally acclaimed film-maker was renowned for beautifully shot cinematic epics
06.01.2026 22:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This study looks quite interesting! And the review below makes me want to read it.

www.steiner-verlag.de/Die-Marokkan...

#EarlyModern
#OrientalStudies
#skystorians
#histbookchat

06.01.2026 19:06 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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HISTORY of TURKS 1700 RYCAUT Turkey BATTLES SIEGES HUNGARY AUSTRIA Engravings

#books #antiquarian #history #Turkey #Ottoman #Arabs #Islam #religion #culture #war #battles #sieges #Sultans #Emperors #Empire #Europe #Vienna #Buda #earlymodern #bookauction
bit.ly/49DREIq

05.01.2026 13:50 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Markets, Mints, and Merchants – Royal Economic Policy and Towns in Medieval Hungary The objective of the present volume is to provide a representative overview of the research undertaken by the Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group since its establishment in 2015.

New book on economy and towns in #medieval #Hungary.

#medievalsky

24.12.2025 02:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

April 2018, Toledo. In the enormous Renaissance Palace of the Hospital de Tavera, the Ducal Archives of Medinaceli. The archivist left me alone in a small reading room with huge piles of #earlymodern documents, reports, and letters from The 9th Duke of Medinaceli, Spanish ambassador to Rome.

22.12.2025 17:25 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New ERC Consolidator Grant at the Institute of History Béla Vilmos Mihalik, Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Secretary of the Institute of History at ELTE RCH, and Assistant Professor at the Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History, ELTE Faculty o...

The first short summary in English about my new #ERCCoG project on the parish politics in #earlymodern East Central Europe 1650-1800, examining the role of popular politics on late Catholic confessionalization and early modern state building.

tti.abtk.hu/en/news/new-...

09.12.2025 18:51 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Danke schön liebe Maria!

09.12.2025 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! ☺️

09.12.2025 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much! ☺️

09.12.2025 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much Oana! ☺️

09.12.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#earlymodern

09.12.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m deeply moved: I’ve been awarded an #ERCCoG for my project on early modern parish politics in East Central Europe. Biggest lesson of 2025: the people around me believed in me and my success more than I ever believed in myself. Thank you all. @erc.europa.eu

09.12.2025 15:15 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 5    📌 0
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Companion to the Later Crusades (1400–1700) The crusading movement endured well beyond the 14th century. Across Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, the desire for crusading continued to wield substantial influence, transcending borders and p...

🚀 New Open Access Publication!
It is part of our European project COST Action Islamic Legacy:
📘 Companion to the Later Crusades (1400–1700)
Edited by M. Ressel & E. Filipović
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#COSTAction #IslamicLegacy #History #Crusades #OpenAccess #Research #MedievalStudies

02.12.2025 16:35 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Old village church of Schöneiche bei Berlin

Old village church of Schöneiche bei Berlin

Gravestone of Renata Baldauf

Gravestone of Renata Baldauf

An unlikely place to find my late grandfather’s second cousine, Renata Baldauf’s grave, and also meet her wonderful family, incl. my fourth cousins. A complex Eastern European family history from the small Hungarian town of Békéscsaba through Transylvania to Schöneiche bei Berlin. #familyhistory

16.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Family tree and family history of Antonie Weisz

Family tree and family history of Antonie Weisz

Ready for a German-American(-Hungarian) family reunion in Berlin this weekend

12.11.2025 19:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1572 is the year of death of István Szegedi Kis, a Hungarian Reformer and Theologian, one of the first Calvinist bishops in Hungary. He worked in Central Hungary, already under Ottoman rule, had some interesting dispute, and died in Ráckeve, which was a Serb Orthodoxy cultural hub since 15th c.

12.11.2025 06:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A letter from Jesuit Superior General

A letter from Jesuit Superior General

A precious addition to my private archive: a kind note of appreciation from Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Jesuits, regarding my book on the Hungarian Jesuits. I was genuinely touched — it really meant a lot to me.

11.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Book “Bringing the People Back in” on a desk.

Book “Bringing the People Back in” on a desk.

Finally I have my own copy from the book, which was so inspiring for me. #earlymodern

06.11.2025 10:00 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The cover of the Hungarian language book “The Court of Chameleons”.

The cover of the Hungarian language book “The Court of Chameleons”.

My new book“The Court of Chameleons” has been published this summer. It explores the transformation of Holy See–Habsburg diplomatic relations during the papacy of Innocent XII (1691–1700) and the liberation of Hungary from the Ottoman rule – for now, only in Hungarian.
#earlymodern

12.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Igen, ez a b.újvárosi névváltás is borzasztó érdekes, sógoroméknál is volt Kerekes (Rund), Béke (Fried) stb.

20.07.2025 19:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Szia! Sajnos így konkrétan nem volt erre kutatás szerintem (btw sógorom családja is b.újvárosi sváb). A tolnai-baranyai donauschwaben vallásosságára Ament-Kovács Bence munkáit tudom ajánlani, de az meg alapból inkább kat. tömeg volt.

20.07.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Conference presentation

Conference presentation

Discussion after our panel at Central European History Convention

Discussion after our panel at Central European History Convention

Speaking about parish politics is 18th-century Hungary at the Central European History Convention on this Wednesday in Vienna #earlymodern #habsburgs #parishes #vienna

20.07.2025 11:05 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Orange is the colour of the summer 🧡

17.07.2025 06:09 — 👍 55    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 2
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Wissenschaft unter Druck Neue Reformpläne gefährden die freie Wissenschaft in Ungarn, warnt das Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Östliches Europa.

#academia #hungary

11.07.2025 09:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Book cover

The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊

09.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 51    🔁 17    💬 6    📌 0
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This campaign needs you now We protest the dismantling of the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN)

#AcademicFreedom at Risk in #Hungary
A damaging restructuring of the Hungarian Research Network has been announced without consultation. Our trade union call for international solidarity. Please read, share and circulate the petition below.
chng.it/fP5YdLDMSS

30.06.2025 10:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Russian-style law targeting independent press and NGOs tabled in Hungarian parliament Fidesz has submitted a proposal that would completely incapacitate organizations they have labeled as foreign agents threatening the country's sovereignty.

Today is a tragic day for #Hungary: we have reached the level of Putin’s Russia. We are now witnessing the death of a dream — the betrayal of a democratic legacy born in 1956 and fulfilled in 1990.

14.05.2025 18:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#earlymodern #history #transylvania

25.04.2025 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Upcoming: New Series on the Study of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe - REFORC New Series Since its start in 2010 REFORC has – in close cooperation with institutions and scholars in Central and Eastern Europe – supported and initiated projects with a focus on the Reformation in ...

New Series on the Study of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe published at De Gruyter and REFORC.

First volume will be the book of Ulrich Wien on the beginnings of the Reformation in Transylvania.

25.04.2025 15:46 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Pope Francis in Rome in the Piazza San Pietro with the crowd during the Pentecost Mass in 2013.

Pope Francis in Rome in the Piazza San Pietro with the crowd during the Pentecost Mass in 2013.

In 2013 in Rome, the Pentecost Mass.

Requiescat in pace, Papa Franciscus!

21.04.2025 09:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0