Forum on Early Modern Central Europe

Please send suggestions, enquiries or offers of papers to:

Dr Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, r.butterwick@ssees.ucl.ac.uk

Dr Natalia Nowakowska, natalia.nowakowska@some.ox.ac.uk

Dr Orsolya Szakály, os2@soas.ac.uk

Convenors:

Karin Friedrich (SSEES) 1997-2004

Jacqueline Glomski (Warburg Institute, then KCL) 1997-2007

Antje Schmitt (Warburg Institute) 1997

Jonathan Durrant (KCL, then University of Glamorgan) 2004-2009

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (SSEES) 2005-

Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville College, Oxford) 2006-

Orsolya Szakály (Hungarian Academy of Sciences and SOAS) 2009-

Forthcoming Seminars

• Thursday 9 May, 5.15 pm, room 431
  Professor Martyn Rady (UCL SSEES)
  The Hungarian Golden Bull of 1222: Composition, Content, Consequences

  Virginia Dillon (Somerville College, Oxford)
  Religion, Violence and Ceremony in the Transylvanian News: Reporting in the German Language Newspapers from 1619-58

Past Events

• Wednesday 27 February 2013
  Christopher Nicholson (UCL SSEES)
  Recasting Legal Material in Early-Sixteenth Century Bohemia and Hungary

  Professor Kristóf Fatsar (Corvinus University, Budapest)
  'My Principal Pursuit Shall Be to Transplant the Experience...': Hungarian Travellers in Britain Learning How to Improve Their Homeland and British Remarks on the Results, 1780-1848

• Wednesday 12 December 2012: Fifteenth-Anniversary Lecture, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL, 5.15 pm
  Professor Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen)
  On unions: composite monarchy and the making of the Polish-Lithuanian union, 1385-1569

• Wednesday 2 May 2012 NB. 5 pm
  Leigh Penman (Goldsmiths' College London)
  Politica Theosophia. Visions of Godly government in millenarian literature of the early seventeenth century.

  Márta Velladics (National Office of Cultural Heritage, Budapest)
  Dissolved monasteries and new parishes in Hungary during Joseph II's reign. An acceptable explanation.

• 29 February 2012
  Dr Karin Friedrich (University of Aberdeen)
  'Magnate, governor, soldier, spy' - the power networks of a seventeenth-century Lithuanian nobleman'

• 30 November 2011
  Wioletta Pawlikowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
  Can we determine the national and territorial origins of the canons and prelates of the cathedral chapter of Vilna in the sixteenth century?

  Agnieszka Whelan (SSEES)
  'Gardening amidst the ruins of their expiring country'. The Czartoryskis at Powązki and Puławy

• 11 June 2010: Colloquium The Political Values of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569-1795

  Edward Opaliński (History Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  Liberty, equality and fraternity in Polish-Lithuanian political culture, 1569-c.1650

  Jolanta Choińska-Mika (History Institute, University of Warsaw)
  A question of trust: electors and envoys in the later seventeenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

  Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz (Institute of Literary Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  Golden freedom: noble privileges or a universal idea?

  
  Dr Natalia Nowakowska and Professors Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Opaliński and Choińska-Mika

• 17 March 2010
  Michael Rowe (King's College, London)
  Cultures of monarchical representation in late eighteenth-century Europe

• 27 January 2010
  Zsolt Hunyadi (University of Szeged)
  The aristocracy and the petty nobility in late medieval Hungarian society: 'sub una et eadem libertate'

  Hacer Topaktaş (Haceteppe University, Ankara)
  Diplomatic relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski (1764-1795)

• 6 May 2009: Special Lecture
  Derek Beales (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)
  How did Joseph II govern?

• 4 March 2009
  Piotr Stolarski (University of Aberdeen)
  Licensing God's dogs: Dominicans and episcopal authority in Poland-Lithuania, 1594-1648

  Robert Gray (UCL SSEES)
  Enlightened intentions: the impact of land reform in Hungary under Maria Theresa and Joseph II

• 26 November 2008
  Robert Maniura (Birkbeck College)
  Appropriation and identity: Poland and the East in the early fifteenth century

  Richard Butterwick (UCL SSEES)
  The Constitution of 3 May 1791: the lost foundation of Polish liberalism

• 20 February 2008
  Jerzy Lukowski (University of Birmingham)
  Rousseau's Poland: Contract and Considerations

  Alan Ross (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Jan Amos Comenius (Komenský) and Saxony: a history of misunderstanding?

• 28 November 2007
  Jacqueline Glomski (King's College London)
  Patronage, poetry and the furnishing of a Hungarian nobleman's house: Valentin Eck’s Supellectilium fasciculus (1519)

  Gábor Borbély (Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  Enlightened by Cartesianism: Hungarian philosophy in the seventeenth century

• 16 May 2007
  William O'Reilly (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
  Voyagers to the East: the Spanish Succession and Vienna, 1700-1740

  Dorota Dukwicz (Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  When and in what circumstances did Russia decide on the First Partition of Poland?

• 7 March 2007: Decennial Lecture
  Robert J. W. Evans (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Decennial reflections: confession and nation in early modern Central Europe

• 22 November 2006
  Benedict Wagner-Rundell (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  A missed opportunity? The chances of an anti-magnate alliance at the sejm of 1712

  Valery Rees (School of Economic Science)
  Why was neoplatonic theurgy of interest to the Hungarian court in the late 1480s?

• 17 May 2006
  Masatake Wasa (Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Whose beer was it anyway? Brewing rights in Brandenburg, 1600-1700

  Dominic Phelps (Blundell's School)
  'Gott ist in Sachsen bekandt [und] zu Dresden ist sein Gezelt': the role of Oberhofprediger Matthias Hoe von Hoenegg at the electoral Saxon court, 1613-1645

• 22 February 2006
  Martyn Rady (UCL SSEES)
  A new translation and edition of Werbőczy's 'Tripartitum' (1517)

  Orsolya Szakály (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and SOAS)
  The culture of improvement amongst Hungary's elite in the eighteenth century

• 23 November 2005
  Agnieszka Sadraei (Courtauld Institute)
  The cult of St Stanislaus in late fifteenth-century Cracow

  Tomasz Gromelski (University of Oxford)
  Local political elites in the second half of the sixteenth century: the English gentry and the Polish szlachta

• 25 May 2005
  Piotr Urbański (University of Szczecin)
  Latin culture in seventeenth-century Pomerania: the case of Stettin

  Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Cambridge)
  Communities and the 'second serfdom' in early modern Bohemia

• 23 February 2005
  Katerina Hornícková (CEU, Budapest)
  The Utraquist rite in practice: the challenges and changes of religious practice in the Bohemian Reformation

  Simone Laqua (Balliol College, Oxford)
  Concubinage and the Church in early modern Münster

• 17 November 2004
  Kristina Sabaliauskaitė (Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts)
  Renaissance cultural images in the period of the formation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

• Jeannie Łabno (University of Sussex)
  The iconography of child monuments in Renaissance Poland: the reclining putto

• 26 May 2004
  Jonathan Durrant (King's College London)
  'The scum of all our provinces': masculinity and the soldier during the Thirty Years' War

• 25 February 2004
  Bernhard Struck (Technische Universität Berlin)
  (Re-)Locating Eastern Europe: France and Poland seen by German travellers, 1750-1850

  Andrea Pühringer (Marburg)
  Violence in war: the presentation of physical force in eighteenth-century Central European literature and art

• 5 November 2003
  Paul Knoll (University of Southern California)
  The university context of fifteenth-century Cracovian conciliarism

• 28 May 2003
  Natalia Nowakowska (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Astrology at the Polish Court: Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon's almanac of 1501

  Blanka Szeghyova (CEU, Budapest)
  Judicial practice in Eastern Hungarian towns in the second half of the sixteenth century

• 26 February 2003
  Angela Jianu (University of York)
  Trade, fashion and Europeanisation in the Romanian principalities, ca. 1770-1850

  Stephen Rose (Magdalene College, Cambridge)
  Sounds regulated: music and authority in Saxony and Silesia during the seventeenth century

• 29 May 2002
  Susanne Meurer (Warburg Institute)
  Joachim von Sandart and his Teutsche Academie

  Reingard Esser (University of the West of England)
  'Ausser Zweifel wird dieser actus vielen befremdlich vorkommen': The abdication ceremony of Landgrave Maurice of Hesse, 1627

• 27 February 2002
  Daniel Louis Riches (University of Chicago)
  Higher education, religion and Brandenburg-Swedish relations in the seventeenth century

  John Flood (Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London)
  Women poets: Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

• 14 November 2001
  Waldemar Kowalski (University of Kielce, Poland)
  The Counter-Reformation and Church reform in rural and small town parishes of the Cracow diocese

  Almut Bues (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)
  Volckmar's Polish-German conversations book

• 30 May 2001
  Marcell Sebők (CEU, Budapest)
  Mobility, communication and transaction: Scholars in early modern central Europe

  Adam Mosley (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Before Prague: Tycho Brahe and the resources of Central Europe

• 7 March 2001
  Ben Sanders (University of St Andrew)
  Kochanowski and heterodoxy: the Protestant sources of his translation of the Psalms

  Martin Stone (King's College London)
  Bartholomew Keckermann (d. 1609) on virtue

• 15 November 2000
  Karen Lambrechty (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Ostmitteleuropa, University of Leipzig)
  Communicating Europe to the region: Breslau around the turn of the fifteenth century

  Wanda Wyporska (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Nobles, Germans and familiars: the peculiarities of Polish demonology

• 14 June 2000
  Richard Butterwick (Queen's University Belfast)
  Stanisław August Poniatowski, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the manners of Englishwomen

  Anita Traninger (University of Vienna)
  Contrived spontaneity: Rhetoric, memory and the ars lulliana

• 9 June 1999
  Agnieszka Fulińska (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
  Theories of translation in early modern Poland

  Christine Peters (The Queen's College, Oxford)
  Lutheranism and locality: the development of discipline in Saxon Transylvania

• 23 February 2000
  Karl Galle (Imperial College London)
  In praise of Prussian science: Rheticus's first account of the Copernican theory and the historiography of national culture

  Arnold Bartetzky (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Ostmitteleuropa, University of Leipzig)
  The city and the kingdom. The political programmes of early modern town hall decorations in East-Central Europe

• 17 November 1999
  Louise Gray
  Survival strategies among the sick poor. Family, institutions and care in early modern rural Germany

  Shayne Mitchell (University of Cambridge)
  'All the leaders and kings who ever rules Hungary': An unknown fifteenth-century royal fresco cycle in Esztergom

• 10 March 1999
  Scott Dixon (Queen's University Belfast)
  Popular astrology and Lutheran propaganda in Reformation Germany

• 9 December 1998
  Tim Hochstrasser (LSE)
  Jansenism, Cameralism and Josephinism: the case of Cardinal Migazzi

  Jerzy Lukowski (University of Birmingham)
  Montesquieu's influence on Polish political ideas of the Enlightenment

• 29 April 1998
  Paul Crossley (Courtauld Institute)
  The man from inner space: meditation and movement in the church of St Lorenz, Nuremberg

  George Gömöri (Darwin College, Cambridge)
  The cult and representation of Count Nicholas Zrínyi in England (1663-65)

• 4 February 1998
  John Flood (Institute of Germanic Studies)
  Subversion in the Alps: Books and readers in the Counter Reformation

  Piotr Wilczek (University of Silesia)
  Jesuits and heretics: polemical imagery in Polish religious disputes at the turn of the sixteenth century

• 19 November 1997
  Cristina Neagu (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
  'Processus sub forma missae' and Nicolaus Olahus: Christian alchemy, identity and identification

  Howard Hotson (University of Aberdeen)
  Hermeticism and reformed religion in Zurich and Marburg: Raphael Eglinus Iconius and the manuscript of Giordano Bruno's Artificium perorandi

• 23 April 1997
  Graeme Murdock (University of Birmingham)
  Ethnic identity and religious identity in the Hungarian Reformation

• 12 February 1997
  Robert Frost (King's College London)
  'And these have such dreadful countenances': The physiognomy of terror and the image of the Pole in the Thirty Years War

  Andrew Morrall (Christie's Education)
  Soldiers, gypsies and family values in sixteenth-century German art