A new edited volume co-edited by IEG researcher Dr Henning P. Jürgens examines the reign of Stephen Báthory (1533–1586), who ruled first as Prince of Transylvania and later as King of Poland in the late 16th century.
How did his rule shape the political and social landscape of early modern Central and Eastern Europe? And what can the study of his reign reveal about the relationship between religious diversity and the emergence of early modern state structures?
The interdisciplinary volume, edited by Dr Henning P. Jürgens, Dr Julia Derzsi, Dr Maciej Ptaszyński and Dr Ulrich Wien, brings together 36 contributions by scholars from Romania, Hungary, Poland, Germany and other European countries. The contributions examine key aspects of Báthory’s rule in Transylvania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including domestic and foreign policy, military structures and religious diversity.
Organised into four thematic sections, the contributions cover a broad range of topics, from princely administration, finance and mining to confessional politics as viewed from the perspectives of different social and religious communities.
The volume has been published by De Gruyter Brill as the fourth volume in the series Studies of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe and is freely available in Open Access.
