Battle for Central Europe

Pál Fodor, Ph.D. (1993), is Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published on the political, military, administrative, and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire including The Business of State: Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s–1615) (Berlin, Klaus Schwarz, 2018).

• AbstractKeywords1 Love Elegy2 Neo-Catullanism3 Excursus: Art and Life4 Petrarchism5 Mediaeval Presences6 Virgilian Pastoral and Horatian Lyric7 Greek Models8 Women’s Writing and Female Voices9 Philosophical and Spiritual Currents10 Conjugal Love and Family11 Obscenity12 Homosexuality13 Love’s Transformations; Metamorphosis and Mannerism14 ConclusionIndex

[...] 'The ambitions of this volume far exceed commemoration of the siege or the prominent deaths closely linked with it. The Battle for Central Europe takes up a multilayered, inter-imperial approach to a complex set of historical developments.[...] As a commemoration of 1566, the volume succeeds in offering a detailed, multifaceted approach to the widest range of historical developments attached to Szigetvár. In fact, for such a wide-ranging set of contributions, the volume is remarkably coherent because it is organized around a relatively narrow and self-contained set of historical events. For these reasons, the volume is a welcome addition to existing scholarship.Christopher Markiewicz, University of Birmingham, in Turkish Historical Review, vol.10, nos.2-3, 2019