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Review Copy. © 2021 Indiana University Press. All Rights Reserved. Do Not Share. STUDIES in HUNGARIAN HISTORY László Borhi, Editor
HUNGARY BETWEEN TWO EMPIRES 1526–1711 Review Copy. © 2021 Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Do not share. STUDIES IN HUNGARIAN HISTORY László Borhi, editor Top Left: Ferdinand I of Habsburg, Hungarian- Bohemian king (1526–1564), Holy Roman emperor (1558–1564). Unknown painter, after Jan Cornelis Vermeyen, circa 1530 (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest). Top Right: Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–1566). Unknown painter, after Titian, sixteenth century (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest). Review Copy. © 2021 Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Do not share. Left: The Habsburg siege of Buda, 1541. Woodcut by Erhardt Schön, 1541 (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest). STUDIES IN HUNGARIAN HISTORY László Borhi, editor Review Copy. © 2021 Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Do not share. Review Copy. © 2021 Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Do not share. HUNGARY BETWEEN TWO EMPIR ES 1526–1711 Géza Pálffy Translated by David Robert Evans Indiana University Press Review Copy. © 2021 Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Do not share. This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress . org This book was produced under the auspices of the Research Center for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and with the support of the National Bank of Hungary. © 2021 by Géza Pálffy All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. -
Aleksey A. ROMANCHUK ROMANIAN a CINSTI in the LIGHT of SOME
2021, Volumul XXIX REVISTA DE ETNOLOGIE ȘI CULTUROLOGIE E-ISSN: 2537-6152 101 Aleksey A. ROMANCHUK ROMANIAN A CINSTI IN THE LIGHT OF SOME ROMANIAN-SLAVIC CONTACTS1 https://doi.org/10.52603/rec.2021.29.14 Rezumat определенное отражение следы обозначенного поздне- Cuvântul românesc a cinsti în lumina unor contacte праславянского диалекта (диалектов). В частности, к româno-slave таким следам, возможно, стоит отнести как украинские Pornind de la comparația dintre cuvântul ucrainean диалектные чандрий, шандрий, чендрий, так и диалект- частувати ‚a trata’ și românescul a cinsti‚ a trata (cu vin), ное (зафиксировано в украинском говоре с. Булэешть) / a bea vin, se consideră un grup de împrumuturi slave cu мон|золетеи/ ‘мусолить; впустую теребить’. /n/ epentetic în limba română, căreia îi aparține și a cin- Ключевые слова: славяне, румыны, лексические sti. Interpretând corpul de fapte disponibil, putem presu- заимствования, этническая история, украинские диа- pune că convergență semantică dintre cuvintele честь и лекты, Молдова, Буковина. угощение a apărut în perioada slavică timpurie. Cuvântul românesc a cinsti este un argument important pentru da- Summary tarea timpurie a apariției acestei convergențe semantice. Romanian a cinsti in the light of some Așadar, cuvântul ucrainean частувати, ca și cuvântul po- Romanian-Slavic contacts lonez częstowac, apar independent unul de celălalt, la fel A group of Slavic loanwords with epenthetic /n/ in the ca și de cuvântul românesc a cinsti. Cuvântul românesc a Romanian language, to which a cinsti belongs, is consid- cinsti, ca și, în general, grupul menționat de împrumuturi ered. Interpreting the existing set of facts, the author sup- slave cu /n/ epentetic în limba română, reprezintă un rezul- poses that the semantic convergence between the Slav- tat al contactelor timpurii ale limbii române cu un dialect ic честь ‘honour’ and угощение ‘treat’ appeared as far back (dialecte) slav vechi, pentru care era caracteristică tendința as the Late Slavic period. -
Myth and Reality. Changing Awareness of Transylvanian Identity
Sándor Vogel Transylvania: Myth and Reality. Changing Awareness of Transylvanian Identity Introduction In the course of history Transylvania has represented a specific configuration in Eur ope. A unique role was reserved for it by its three ethnic communities (Hungarian, Romanian and Saxon), its three estates in politicallaw, or natio (nations), Hungarian, Szekler and Saxon existing until modern times, and its four established religions (recepta re/igio), namely Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist and Unitarian, along with the Greek Orthodox religion of Romanians which was tolerated by Transylvania's political law. At the same time the Transylvanian region was situated at the point of contact or intersection oftwo cultures, the Western and the East European. A glance at the ethnic map - displaying an oveIWhelming majority of Hungarians and Saxon settlers in medieval times - clearly reveals that its evolution is in many respects associated with the rise ofthe medieval State of Hungary and resultant from the Hungarian king's con scious policies of state organization and settlement. lts historical development, social order, system of state organization and culture have always made it a part of Europe in all these dimensions. During the centuries ofthe Middle Ages and early modern times the above-mention ed three ethnic communities provided the estate-based framework for the region's spe cial state organization. The latter served in turn as an integument for the later develop ment of nationhood for the Hungarian and Saxon communities, and as a model for the Romanian community. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the period of the Ottoman State's expansion, the Transylvanian region achieved the status of an independent state in what was referred to in contemporary Hungarian documents as the 'shadow ofthe Turkish Power', thereby becoming the repository ofthe idea of a Hungarian State, the ultimate resource of Hungarian culture and the nerve center of its development. -
The Moldavian and Romanian Dialectal Corpus
MOROCO: The Moldavian and Romanian Dialectal Corpus Andrei M. Butnaru and Radu Tudor Ionescu Department of Computer Science, University of Bucharest 14 Academiei, Bucharest, Romania [email protected] [email protected] Abstract In this work, we introduce the Moldavian and Romanian Dialectal Corpus (MOROCO), which is freely available for download at https://github.com/butnaruandrei/MOROCO. The corpus contains 33564 samples of text (with over 10 million tokens) collected from the news domain. The samples belong to one of the following six topics: culture, finance, politics, science, sports and tech. The data set is divided into 21719 samples for training, 5921 samples for validation and another 5924 Figure 1: Map of Romania and the Republic of samples for testing. For each sample, we Moldova. provide corresponding dialectal and category labels. This allows us to perform empirical studies on several classification tasks such as Romanian is part of the Balkan-Romance group (i) binary discrimination of Moldavian versus that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Romanian text samples, (ii) intra-dialect Latin, which separated from the Western Ro- multi-class categorization by topic and (iii) mance branch of languages from the fifth cen- cross-dialect multi-class categorization by tury (Coteanu et al., 1969). In order to dis- topic. We perform experiments using a shallow approach based on string kernels, tinguish Romanian within the Balkan-Romance as well as a novel deep approach based on group in comparative linguistics, it is referred to character-level convolutional neural networks as Daco-Romanian. Along with Daco-Romanian, containing Squeeze-and-Excitation blocks. -
Monastic Landscapes of Medieval Transylvania (Between the Eleventh and Sixteenth Centuries)
DOI: 10.14754/CEU.2020.02 Doctoral Dissertation ON THE BORDER: MONASTIC LANDSCAPES OF MEDIEVAL TRANSYLVANIA (BETWEEN THE ELEVENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) By: Ünige Bencze Supervisor(s): József Laszlovszky Katalin Szende Submitted to the Medieval Studies Department, and the Doctoral School of History Central European University, Budapest of in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval Studies, and CEU eTD Collection for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Budapest, Hungary 2020 DOI: 10.14754/CEU.2020.02 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My interest for the subject of monastic landscapes arose when studying for my master’s degree at the department of Medieval Studies at CEU. Back then I was interested in material culture, focusing on late medieval tableware and import pottery in Transylvania. Arriving to CEU and having the opportunity to work with József Laszlovszky opened up new research possibilities and my interest in the field of landscape archaeology. First of all, I am thankful for the constant advice and support of my supervisors, Professors József Laszlovszky and Katalin Szende whose patience and constructive comments helped enormously in my research. I would like to acknowledge the support of my friends and colleagues at the CEU Medieval Studies Department with whom I could always discuss issues of monasticism or landscape archaeology László Ferenczi, Zsuzsa Pető, Kyra Lyublyanovics, and Karen Stark. I thank the director of the Mureş County Museum, Zoltán Soós for his understanding and support while writing the dissertation as well as my colleagues Zalán Györfi, Keve László, and Szilamér Pánczél for providing help when I needed it. -
Politiche E Pianificazioni Linguistiche in Bessarabia: Romenità
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE Corso di Dottorato in Scienze Linguistiche e Letterarie Ciclo XXV TESI DI DOTTORATO DI RICERCA Politiche e pianificazioni linguistiche in Bessarabia: romenità, russificazione, moldovenismo Dottorando Alessandro Zuliani Relatori Prof. Fabiana Fusco Prof. Celestina Zenobia Fanella Anno Accademico 2012-2013 INTRODUZIONE Tesi di dottorato di Alessandro Zuliani, discussa presso l'Università degli Studi di Udine 2 La presente ricerca verte sulle politiche e le pianificazioni linguistiche che hanno interessato la Bessarabia, regione europea che rappresenta l'estremità orientale della Romània continua, già parte del Principato di Moldavia e che oggi coincide pressappoco con i confini della Repubblica di Moldavia, stato nato dalla dissoluzione dell'Unione Sovietica nel 1991. Nel corso del nostro studio siamo partiti dal 1812, data di annessione della Bessarabia all’Impero russo, e abbiamo cercato di ripercorrere alcune tappe importanti che hanno portato all’attuale realtà sociolinguistica della Repubblica di Moldavia. Soffermandoci sulle politiche linguistiche della Russia zarista e sulle pianificazioni linguistiche sovietiche, abbiamo rilevato l'iniziale processo di profonda russificazione subito dalla popolazione autoctona dalla Bessarabia, cui è seguito il tentativo, in parte riuscito, di creare un nuovo popolo e un nuovo idioma. La cosiddetta lingua moldava altro non è che l'espressione della volontà di separare, anche linguisticamente, i romeni della Bessarabia dal resto della Romania, di fatto sancendo l'esistenza di due nazionalità e di due idiomi ben distinti. L’unità etnolinguistica romena dell’area compresa tra i fiumi Tibisco, Danubio, Dniestr e il Mar Nero, già affermata dagli storici e dai cronicari a partire dal XVI secolo, viene dunque messa in discussione e avversata in modo esplicito dalle tesi del moldovenismo, fenomeno linguistico e culturale incentrato sulla differenziazione etnica e linguistica tra moldavi e romeni. -
Edict of Torda 450Years
Sermon delivered at Glasgow Unitarian Church on 21 January 2018 by Rev John Clifford Edict of Torda, 450 years Well, if anyone had any doubt about what we are celebrating today before they left home for church, the excellent Chalice Lighting words from ICUU and the two readings from the Hungarian Unitarian Catechism should have dispelled all doubt. 450 years, almost to the day, since the Edict of Torda was promulgated by the King and Parliament of an Eastern European backwater that was effectively a buffer between Sultan Suleiman of the Ottoman Empire to the South and “Christian” civilisation to the West. The Edict itself was proclaimed following several public debates between different religious groups: The Roman Catholics, the Swiss Calvinists, the German Lutherans, and the followers of Pure Christianity who would come to be called Unitarians. These four groups had special status. The Eastern Orthodox, the Jews, and any other small groups like Anabaptists were not part of this journey towards toleration. We don't have the ceremony of Confirmation in our English speaking churches, although a few do have coming of age ceremonies. But I've been privileged to be at a Hungarian Unitarian Confirmation service. The teenagers, having been studying for some months and having completed a personal project, are gently interrogated by the minister about their self- understandings as Unitarians and their desire to become full members of the community. The youngsters were not expected to feed back sections of the Catechism verbatim, but it is the key normative document that organises their studies. The Unitarian Catechism from which we heard excerpts in the Reading dates the foundation of the Hungarian Unitarian Church from the Edict of Torda. -
MOROCO: the Moldavian and Romanian Dialectal Corpus
MOROCO: The Moldavian and Romanian Dialectal Corpus Andrei M. Butnaru and Radu Tudor Ionescu Department of Computer Science, University of Bucharest 14 Academiei, Bucharest, Romania [email protected] [email protected] Abstract In this work, we introduce the Moldavian and Romanian Dialectal Corpus (MOROCO), which is freely available for download at https://github.com/butnaruandrei/MOROCO. The corpus contains 33564 samples of text (with over 10 million tokens) collected from the news domain. The samples belong to one of the following six topics: culture, finance, politics, science, sports and tech. The data set is divided into 21719 samples for training, 5921 samples for validation and another 5924 Figure 1: Map of Romania and the Republic of samples for testing. For each sample, we Moldova. provide corresponding dialectal and category labels. This allows us to perform empirical studies on several classification tasks such as Romanian is part of the Balkan-Romance group (i) binary discrimination of Moldavian versus that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Romanian text samples, (ii) intra-dialect Latin, which separated from the Western Ro- multi-class categorization by topic and (iii) mance branch of languages from the fifth cen- cross-dialect multi-class categorization by tury (Coteanu et al., 1969). In order to dis- topic. We perform experiments using a shallow approach based on string kernels, tinguish Romanian within the Balkan-Romance as well as a novel deep approach based on group in comparative linguistics, it is referred to character-level convolutional neural networks as Daco-Romanian. Along with Daco-Romanian, containing Squeeze-and-Excitation blocks. -
To Vote a King
CONTRACTUAL MAJESTY ELECTORAL POLITICS IN TRANSYLVANIA AND POLAND-LITHUANIA 1571-1586 A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History By Felicia Roşu, M.A. Washington, DC May 1, 2009 Copyright 2009 by Felicia Roşu All Rights Reserved ii CONTRACTUAL MAJESTY ELECTORAL POLITICS IN TRANSYLVANIA AND POLAND-LITHUANIA, 1571-1586 Felicia Roşu, M.A. Thesis Advisor: Andrzej S. Kamiński, Ph.D. ABSTRACT Stefan Báthory (1533-1586) was chosen by the orders and estates of Transylvania to be their ruler in May 1571; in December 1575 he was also elected king of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth and was crowned as such in May 1576. Although Báthory never returned to his homeland after he took hold of his Polish-Lithuanian throne, he maintained control over the affairs of Transylvania and ruled both countries simultaneously until his death in December 1586. This dissertation analyzes Báthory’s two elections while comparing them to similar phenomena in the rest of Europe and placing them in the larger framework of early modern constitutionalism and civic republicanism. The goals of this dissertation are to unveil the dynamics of electoral politics in sixteenth-century East Central Europe; to illuminate the political language at play during elections; and to clarify the values, intentions, and motivations of political actors—both candidates and voters—in the electoral context. Research findings indicate that electoral politics not only reflected, but also affected the identity, values, and behavior of citizens and rulers in elective constitutional monarchies, particularly at moments when citizens had to rule themselves and prospective rulers had to comply with the conditions of citizens in order to be able to occupy their thrones. -
The Role of Nobility
ACTA UNIV. SAPIENTIAE, EUROPEAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES, 16 (2019) 123–134 DOI: 10 .2478/auseur-2019-0015 The Role of Nobility A Review of the Volume László Zubánics: Vitézi végek dicsérete. A nemesség szerepe a XVI–XVIII. századi Északkelet-Magyarország társadalmi fejlődésében1 [Laudation of Heroic Deaths . The Role of Nobility in the Social Development of 16th–17th-century North-Eastern Hungary] Attila JÓZSA National University of Public Service, Doctoral School of Public Administration Sciences 1083 Budapest, Ludovika Sq . 2 . PhD student, e-mail: attila@sapientia .ro ‘Not knowing the past makes it more difficult to find one’s way in the future. Families belonging to various social strata and different cultural areas perceive this simple statement as a very differing lifestyle direction and a tradition regulating the details of everyday life’ – formulates György Mikonya the essence of the subject . Research on family history – in our case, the history of noble families – can enrich historiography by adding a number of fine details that seemed to have been lost almost entirely by the second half of the 20th century . In recent times, there has been a considerably increased interest in research on nobility as an important social category, which cannot be accidental, however, as history talks about the past while addressing the present, and by relying on research results it tries to help us better understand the path leading up to the present as well as the principles of development . Nevertheless, we may have a unified relationship with our history only if, besides an education of an adequate standard, we are able to acquire the historicity of thinking – namely that we always take stock of people, events and contexts while taking account of the pace, time, and circumstances . -
Ethnicity in Transylvania. from Medieval Peoples to Modern Nations
HAO, Núm. 34 (Primavera, 2014), 105-113 ISSN 1696-2060 ETHNICITY IN TRASYLVANIA. FROM MEDIEVAL PEOPLES TO MODERN NATIONS Radu Lupescu Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. E-mail: [email protected] Recibido: 23 Mayo 2013 / Revisado: 19 Noviembre 2013 / Aceptado: 22 Enero 2014 /Publicación Online: 15 Junio 2014 Resumen: Transilvania es una región de particularities, lived together since from the Europa, en dónde en el transcurso de los siglos Middle Ages. This strategic region was convivieron y conviven muchas naciones. Entre incorporated into the Hungarian Kingdom by ellas jugaron el rol determinante los húngaros, King Saint Stephen (1000-1038) right at the los rumanos, los sajones y los székelys beginning of his reign, by defeating his uncle, (seklers), quiénes ya estaban presentes en el Gyula, a territorial leader from another doce siglo en Transilvania. La fecha de su Hungarian kindred. It became a princley inmigración, sus tareas y el territorio dónde territory of the Arpadian Dinasty, and from the habitaron fueron distintas y esta situación se twelveth century it was governed by one of the refleja de sus derechos y fueros propios. Pero a main office holders of the kingdom, the voivode. diferencia de las épocas anteriores los reyes húngaros de orígen de casa de Anjou In order to defend its south-eastern borders, the excluyeron los rumanos ortodoxos de la Hungarian Kings settled here the Székelys, a Gobernación de Transilvania, así no podía community whose origin is still debated. Earlier desarrollarse la nobleza propia de ellos. A partir they performed military duties along the western de 1437 la nobleza y la aristocracia de otras tres border of Hungary, but after this region was naciones fueron aliados y cuando en el siglo consolidated, the Székelys were transferred to XVI se descompusó el Reino Húngaro, ellas east. -
The Modernization of the Romanian Standard Language According to G
article doi:10.17684/i11A162en DIACRONIA ISSN: 2393-1140 Impavidi progrediamur! www.diacronia.ro The modernization of the Romanian standard language according to G. Ivănescu Cătălin Nicolau? Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Bd. Carol I 11, 700506 Iași, Romania Article info Abstract History: Our survey synthetically exposes G. Ivănescu’smain ideas with respect to the no- Received April 15, 2020 tion of standard language in general and its modernization process in particular. Accepted May 6, 2020 This undertaking is a component of a larger research of Ivănescu’s diachronic Published June 10, 2020 conception, which I have worked on for the last few years. As a result, the concept of standard language is approached here from a holistic perspective, that Key words: of the entire history of Romanian language, which, after all, it actually belongs written dialect to. This is the reason why some elements of the written language are related to literary language the history of the spoken language and the principles of its research. modernization Our aim is pointing out the originality of this conception, which is diver- rhotacized text gent from that of the linguists in Bucharest, against a background characterized by a decreasing interest in in diachronic linguistics as compared to that in syn- chronic studies. Ivănescu succeeds in developing his original linguistic theory, relying on historical and socio‐linguistic supporting arguments, which deepens, adds up to, and sometimes even contradicts the ideas of both his forerunners and his contemporaries. 1. Introduction – the notion of standard language In this survey, we aim at exposing the way in which G.