Wine and the Soldiers

István M. Szijártó is Professor of History at Eötvös University, Budapest. His research focuses on the history of the Hungarian Diet in the eighteenth century and on microhistory. His publications in English include Estates and Constitution. The Parliament in Eighteenth-Century Hungary (2020) and What is Microhistory? Theory and Practice (2013, with Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon). Together with Wim Blockmans and László Kontler, he co-edited Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century. Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation (2023) and Volume II: Practices of Representation (2025).

• List of FiguresList of MapsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsCurrency and measuresChapter 1: ‘Fit to be a Soldier’: The Fiscal-Military State and the Local CommunityThe Gloomy WidowNoblemen and PeasantsThe Squire’s Wine and the Miller’s WifeSubjects: Useful and DisposableMacaroni and CommunityChapter 2: The Wanderings of Panna RósaMobility in the Ancien RégimeThe Mobility of Peasants, the Freedom of WomenQuestion Marks and ParallelsTo Ladakh or to ZagrebChapter 3: ‘Let them cane you!’Babócsa and its SquiresWine, Money, and the Postal ServiceThe Attorney’s Career and the Postmaster’s HonourNoblemen with and without ChartersMichael Kolhaas in Transylvania and in BabócsaChapter 4: Who’s Afraid of Anna Rósa?Women’s AfflictionsWomen’s RightsWomen in Court and on Tax ListsWomen in Last Wills and Divisions of PropertyWomen Proprietors in Judicial Practice and JurisprudenceThe Return of Panna Rósa?Murder in RigácsThe Noble FamilyChapter 5: The Miller’s FortuneRobbery, Murder, and Criminal JusticeA Jesuit in the Bakony Hills?Menocchio in InotaThe Squire, the Bishop, and the Accumulation of CapitalJura regalia minoraChapter 6: Enlightenment in the Melon Field?The Responsibility of Sowing Melon SeedsThe Background of a ConflictBack to the ‘Black Lands’Enlightenment in Vienna and BercelGyörgy Bessenyei, Pierre-Simon de Laplace and a Nineteenth-Century EnlightenmentEpilogue: A Toothless Crocodile?The Uses of Microhistory and Hungary in the Ancien RégimeThe Economic System I: Grains and MillsThe Economic System II: The Army as Consumer and the Peasants’ MoneyThe Army I: Recruits and DesertersThe Army II: The Return of János KoszerSociety I: Pitchfork, Sword, PickaxeSociety II: Herrschaft mit BauernBibliographyIndex