Béla Vilmos Mihalik
@mbeco84.bsky.social
Early modern church and social history of Hungary and Transylvania, especially parish politics, popular sociability and late Catholic confessionalization. And everything with genealogy and family history 🙈 🏡 Budapest, Hungary ❤️ Vienna, Austria
Our first meeting with Radka and Staszek in beautiful Košice, 8 June ❤️ Was amazing occasion, talking through several topics
ERC PARISH@erc-parish.bsky.social · last wk.8 June - our first small PARISH workshop in historic Košice! Together with Radka Palenčarová and Stanisław Witecki, we compared #earlymodern parish politics in Eger and Kraków, discussed key concepts and hypotheses, and explored one of East Central Europe’s most fascinating urban landscapes. #ERCCoG
The PARISH #ERCCoG project is now on Bluesky, dedicated to #earlymodern parish communities! Please follow the project’s BSky account! We are recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call!
ERC PARISH@erc-parish.bsky.social · 3w agoThe PARISH ERC CoG project is now on Bluesky – follow us for updates! We are also recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers to study #earlymodern parish communities in the Dioceses of Olomouc and Transylvania. Please share the call! Spread the word! #ERCCoG www.abtk.hu/en/positions...
Lichtenstein (OCist) Altarpiece commissioned by abbess Margaretha von Stein, 1465 #art #nuntastic #Stuttgart #Staatsgalerie
Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano
Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari
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Proofs have arrived! I'm both absolutely thrilled and gripped with typo-phobia. In any case, the book is almost real! #NUNTASTIC
Dr. Sarah Joan Moran@lc-beguines.bsky.social · 5mo agoHear ye, hear ye! My book is in production! www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
I gave a presentation at the 24th My-Parish Symposium titled A Confessional Demographic Model? Parish Records, Historical Demography, and Recatholisation in Eighteenth-Century #Hungary. This year’s theme was #Parish & Data. #earlymodern
This study looks quite interesting! And the review below makes me want to read it. www.steiner-verlag.de/Die-Marokkan... #EarlyModern #OrientalStudies #skystorians #histbookchat
Die Marokkaner in Wien | 400013637
Im Jahre 1783 reiste eine Gesandtschaft des Sultans von Marokko nach Wien, um mit Kaiser Joseph II. einen Friedens-, Freundschafts- und Handelsvertrag zu schließen. Diese diplomatische Initiative war ...
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H-Soz-Kult@hsozkult.bsky.social · 7mo agoRez: M. Häberlein: Die Marokkaner in Wien https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-155279 M. Häberlein: Die Marokkaner in Wien
New book on economy and towns in #medieval #Hungary. #medievalsky
Markets, Mints, and Merchants – Royal Economic Policy and Towns in Medieval Hungary
The objective of the present volume is to provide a representative overview of the research undertaken by the Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group since its establishment in 2015.
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April 2018, Toledo. In the enormous Renaissance Palace of the Hospital de Tavera, the Ducal Archives of Medinaceli. The archivist left me alone in a small reading room with huge piles of #earlymodern documents, reports, and letters from The 9th Duke of Medinaceli, Spanish ambassador to Rome.
Karl Appuhn@appuhn.bsky.social · 8mo agoI think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
The first short summary in English about my new #ERCCoG project on the parish politics in #earlymodern East Central Europe 1650-1800, examining the role of popular politics on late Catholic confessionalization and early modern state building. tti.abtk.hu/en/news/new-...
New ERC Consolidator Grant at the Institute of History
Béla Vilmos Mihalik, Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Secretary of the Institute of History at ELTE RCH, and Assistant Professor at the Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History, ELTE Faculty o...
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I’m deeply moved: I’ve been awarded an #ERCCoG for my project on early modern parish politics in East Central Europe. Biggest lesson of 2025: the people around me believed in me and my success more than I ever believed in myself. Thank you all. @erc.europa.eu
European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 8mo agoThe results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣 349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG! 👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
🚀 New Open Access Publication! It is part of our European project COST Action Islamic Legacy: 📘 Companion to the Later Crusades (1400–1700) Edited by M. Ressel & E. Filipović www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #COSTAction #IslamicLegacy #History #Crusades #OpenAccess #Research #MedievalStudies
Companion to the Later Crusades (1400–1700)
The crusading movement endured well beyond the 14th century. Across Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, the desire for crusading continued to wield substantial influence, transcending borders and p...
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An unlikely place to find my late grandfather’s second cousine, Renata Baldauf’s grave, and also meet her wonderful family, incl. my fourth cousins. A complex Eastern European family history from the small Hungarian town of Békéscsaba through Transylvania to Schöneiche bei Berlin. #familyhistory
Ready for a German-American(-Hungarian) family reunion in Berlin this weekend
A precious addition to my private archive: a kind note of appreciation from Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Jesuits, regarding my book on the Hungarian Jesuits. I was genuinely touched — it really meant a lot to me.
My new book“The Court of Chameleons” has been published this summer. It explores the transformation of Holy See–Habsburg diplomatic relations during the papacy of Innocent XII (1691–1700) and the liberation of Hungary from the Ottoman rule – for now, only in Hungarian. #earlymodern
Speaking about parish politics is 18th-century Hungary at the Central European History Convention on this Wednesday in Vienna #earlymodern #habsburgs #parishes #vienna
The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊
#AcademicFreedom at Risk in #Hungary A damaging restructuring of the Hungarian Research Network has been announced without consultation. Our trade union call for international solidarity. Please read, share and circulate the petition below. chng.it/fP5YdLDMSS
This campaign needs you now
We protest the dismantling of the Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN)
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Today is a tragic day for #Hungary: we have reached the level of Putin’s Russia. We are now witnessing the death of a dream — the betrayal of a democratic legacy born in 1956 and fulfilled in 1990.
Russian-style law targeting independent press and NGOs tabled in Hungarian parliament
Fidesz has submitted a proposal that would completely incapacitate organizations they have labeled as foreign agents threatening the country's sovereignty.
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New Series on the Study of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe published at De Gruyter and REFORC. First volume will be the book of Ulrich Wien on the beginnings of the Reformation in Transylvania.
Upcoming: New Series on the Study of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe - REFORC
New Series Since its start in 2010 REFORC has – in close cooperation with institutions and scholars in Central and Eastern Europe – supported and initiated projects with a focus on the Reformation in ...
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In 2013 in Rome, the Pentecost Mass. Requiescat in pace, Papa Franciscus!
#OTD in 1726, Joseph Jean François, Count de Ferraris was born. He created one of the coolest maps in 18th c. Europe: the Ferraris map depicting the Habsburg Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
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New post: The resignation of Howard Louthan from the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. The provost had a 2022 statement about the invasion of Ukraine taken down, and suggested instead that the center offer "differing views" on Ukraine. Full resignation letter attached.
Public Speech by Historians about History
A troubling decision by the administration of the University of Minnesota
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