Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe
This book is dedicated to
the memory of Pompiliu Teodor
Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe
Edited by
Maria Crciun, Ovidiu Ghitta and Graeme Murdock
First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Confessional identity in East-Central Europe. (St Andrews
Studies in Reformation History)
1. Theology, Doctrinal History Modern period, 1500
2. Europe, Central Church history 3. Europe, Eastern
Church history
I. Crciun, Maria II. Ghitta, Ovidiu III. Murdock, Graeme
280'.0943
Library of Congress Control Number: 2001095453
ISBN 9780754603207 (hbk)
Typeset in Sabon by Bournemouth Colour Press, Parkstone
Contents
St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Editorial Board: Bruce Gordon, Andrew Pettegree and John Guy,
St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute,
Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska at Lincoln,
Euan Cameron, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and
Kaspar von Greyerz, University of Basel
The Shaping of a Community: The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish c . 14001560
Beat Kmin
Seminary or University? The Genevan Academy and Reformed Higher Education, 15601620
Karin Maag
Marian Protestantism: Six Studies
Andrew Pettegree
Protestant History and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe
(2 volumes) edited by Bruce Gordon
Antifraternalism and Anticlericalism in the German Reformation: Johann Eberlin von Gnzburg and the Campaign against the Friars
Geoffrey Dipple
Reformations Old and New: Essays on the Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change c . 14701630
edited by Beat Kmin
Piety and the People: Religious Printing in French, 15111551
Francis M. Higman
The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe edited by Karin Maag
John Foxe and the English Reformation
edited by David Loades
The Reformation and the Book
Jean-Franois Gilmont, edited and translated by Karin Maag
The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia
Thomas A. Fudge
Keplers Tbingen: Stimulus to a Theological Mathematics
Charlotte Methuen
Practical Divinity: The Works and Life of Revd Richard Greenham
Kenneth L. Parker and Eric J. Carlson
Belief and Practice in Reformation England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson by his Students
edited by Susan Wabuda and Caroline Litzenberger
Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Auke Jelsma
The Jacobean Kirk, 15671625: Sovereignty, Polity and Liturgy
Alan R. MacDonald
John Knox and the British Reformations
edited by Roger A. Mason
The Education of a Christian Society: Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands
edited by N. Scott Amos, Andrew Pettegree and Henk van Nierop
Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 153083
Thomas Betteridge
Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden
Timothy G. Fehler
Radical Reformation Studies: Essays presented to James M. Stayer
edited by Werner O. Packull and Geoffrey L. Dipple
Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent Policy and Practice
Helen L. Parish
Penitence in the Age of Reformations
edited by Katharine Jackson Lualdi and Anne T. Thayer
The Faith and Fortunes of Frances Hugenots, 160085
Philip Benedict
Christianity and Community in the West: Essays for John Bossy
edited by Simon Ditchfield
Reformation, Politics and Polemics: The Growth of Protestantism in East Anglian Market Towns, 15001610
John Craig
The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book
edited by Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles and Philip Conner
Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation
Rebecca Wagner Oettinger
John Foxe and his World
edited by Christopher Highley and John N. King
Joachim Bahlcke of the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe in Leipzig, is associate lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the University of Leipzig. His publications include Regionalismus und Staatsintegration im Widerstreit. Die Lnder der Bhmischen Krone im ersten Jahrhundert der Habsburgerherrschaft 15261619 (1994), Schlesien und die Schlesier (1996/2000), and he was co-editor of Stndefreiheit und Staatsgestaltung in Ostmitteleuropa (1996), Handbuch der historischen Sttten Bhmen und Mhren (1998), Konfessionalisierung in Ostmitteleuropa (1999), and L. Petry-Breslau und seine ersten Oberherren aus dem Hause Habsburg (2000).
Maria Crciun is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania. She has written Protestantism i ortodoxie in Moldova secolului al XVI-lea (1996). Her recent publications include several articles on the development of piety in Transylvania and Moldavia prior to and during the Reformation. Together with Ovidiu Ghitta she has edited Ethnicity and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe (1995) and Church and Society in Central and Eastern Europe (1998).
Carmen Florea is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania. Her thesis deals with the cult of saints in late medieval Transylania. Her current research interests include urban patterns of religious devotion, and she has also worked on funeral orations in eighteenth-century Transylvania.
Thomas Fudge is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch in New Zealand. He has written The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia (1998), several articles on late medieval and Reformation history (mainly on Hussites), as well as two books on American religious history. He is currently working on a documentary history of the Hussite Crusades, and a separate volume on the social implications of heresy in the period 11001700.
Csilla Gbor teaches in the department of Hungarian literature at the Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania. She obtained her doctoral degree at the Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen in Hungary in 1999. She is currently engaged in research into Catholic devotional literature of the seventeenth century.
Ovidiu Ghitta is a lecturer in the Department of History at the Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania. He has published several articles on the history of the Uniate Church in Hungary and Transylvania, and is currently completing his doctoral thesis on the institutional development of the Uniate Church in Hungary during the eighteenth century. Together with Maria Crciun he has edited Ethnicity and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe (1995) and Church and Society in Central and Eastern Europe (1998).