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Béla Vilmos Mihalik
@mbeco84.bsky.social
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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
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mbeco84.bsky.social
Finally I have my own copy from the book, which was so inspiring for me. #earlymodern
Book “Bringing the People Back in” on a desk.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
mbeco84.bsky.social
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
The cover of the Hungarian language book “The Court of Chameleons”.
October 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
mbeco84.bsky.social
Speaking about parish politics is 18th-century Hungary at the Central European History Convention on this Wednesday in Vienna #earlymodern #habsburgs #parishes #vienna
Conference presentation Discussion after our panel at Central European History Convention
July 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Orange is the colour of the summer 🧡
July 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
mbeco84.bsky.social
#academia #hungary
Wissenschaft unter Druck
Neue Reformpläne gefährden die freie Wissenschaft in Ungarn, warnt das Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Östliches Europa.
www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
July 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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janmachielsen.bsky.social
The final Covid project is finally beating the dust. This #reformazing Cambridge Companion should be coming out towards the end of this year. 😊
Book cover
July 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
mbeco84.bsky.social
#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)
chng.it
June 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
mbeco84.bsky.social
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.
telex.hu
May 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
mbeco84.bsky.social
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 ...
reforc.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
mbeco84.bsky.social
In 2013 in Rome, the Pentecost Mass.

Requiescat in pace, Papa Franciscus!
Pope Francis in Rome in the Piazza San Pietro with the crowd during the Pentecost Mass in 2013.
April 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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vincenzodm.bsky.social
#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.
April 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀
Edited by Brendan Dooley & Paola Molino

More info: bit.ly/3Er8oG7

𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦

#History #Media #EarlyModern #News #Newspapers #Historysky
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
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
buttondown.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
mbeco84.bsky.social
One of the highlights from my first trip to Belgium: Brugge and the tombs of Charles the Bold and his daughter, Mary of Burgundy.
The canal in Brugge, which is called as “Venice of the North”, with pretty early modern buildings on both banks. The Sint-Salvatorskatedraal’s tower from distance in a street of Brugge The golden tombs of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and his daughter, Mary of Burgundy in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Brugge A stained glass circle with a depicted saint in its middle.
April 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Excited to see that Voices of Thunder is available for pre-order in the US on the University of Chicago Press website! 🌟 #earlymodern
April 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
mbeco84.bsky.social
Academia.edu increased its annual renewal fee from 125$ to 299$. What the hack?!

#academia
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February 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
mbeco84.bsky.social
So it begins, or continues. After 32 years, the Department of Germanistic at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary has ceased to exist…

#university #academia #humanities
February 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Today’s 🧵 is about race, nations, and a type of artwork: casta paintings. For more, preorder my forthcoming HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (out Feb. 4 US / Mar. 4 UK, @ucpress.bsky.social) from anywhere books are sold! 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #18thCentury #HAMH 1/9
This painting is divided into sixteen sections, each containing an illustration of a man, a woman, and a child. Each picture has a label. The figures wear distinctive clothing and carry household items such as foodstuffs and musical instruments.
January 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Was there ever an #EarlyModern TikTok? If so, any of those exiles can rebuild via three starter packs here.

I think Facebook did have some functioning earlymodern groups, and exiles equally welcome...
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January 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The Prize Papers contain hundreds of letters that are still sealed. Marc Vermeulen, Head of Heritage Science at The National Archives, explains in the new episode how they were recently able to reconstruct hidden text in these letters – without even opening them! #earlymodern 🗃️
pod.link/1460242815
Portrait Marc Vermeulen - "On the Record" logo – sealed letters in the background (red seals, yellow letter paper, black background). Image: Sealed Letters. Prize Papers Project (Oldenburg/London). Credit: The National Archives, ref. HCA 32/953. Photographer: Maria Cardamone, Prize Papers Project.
January 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
mbeco84.bsky.social
Simply unbelievable :(
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Horrific news out of Assen, Netherlands. Thieves used explosives to access the Drents Museum and made off with several antiquities from ‘Dacia – Empire of Gold and Silver’, including the masterpiece the golden Helmet of Coțofenești, c. 450 BCE, a loan from the National History Museum of Romania. 🏺 😡
Closeup of the golden Helmet of Coțofenești from Romania. It has large raised circular nubs and two eyes in relief on the brow. In shape it’s close-fitting to the head and drapes down the sides and back.
January 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
mbeco84.bsky.social
No money, no university
Concerning: State-funded university spots in Hungary shrink drastically in 2025 - DailyNewsHungary
The cuts will impact nearly all university institutions, reflecting a broader trend of decreased state involvement in key sectors, including healthcare and education.
dailynewshungary.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
mbeco84.bsky.social
Ágnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic champion, #Holocaust survivor and a magical person, has died at the age of 104. In 1952 (Helsinki) and 1956 (Melbourne) she won 5 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals in #gymnastics for #Hungary.

May her memory be blessed!
Photo portrait of Ágnes Keleti (1921-2025), the world’s oldest Olympic champion. She won 5 gold medals in 1952 and 1956. She is over 100 on this photo, telling a story as she laughs.
January 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Ooh, highly appropriate for the first day of the year...

A new article by Erika Kuijpers, @judithpollmann.bsky.social et al. on more than 200 local chroniclers. Who were these people recording the passing of the years?

#EarlyModern #OpenAccess 🗃️:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Screenshot of the first page of an article entitled 'Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries' by Erika Kuijpers, Carolina Lenarduzzi, Judith Pollmann, Theo Dekker and Alie Lassche. The abstract reads: 'Early modern local chronicles are a largely neglected, yet stable genre of texts that can be used for comparative research over time and space. The NWO-funded research project Chronicling Novelty (2018–24) investigated the reception of new media and new knowledge among early modern chroniclers in the Low Countries. For this purpose, we created a digitized corpus of 204 Dutch-language chronicles from the period 1500–1850. This article presents the methodological decisions made in creating this corpus and their implications for its representativeness. The second part examines the social, religious and political profile of the chroniclers: who wrote chronicles and what does this reveal about chronicling as a cultural and social practice? Particularly interesting in this respect is how the chroniclers’ strong involvement in local public affairs authorized their chronicling practices, and vice versa.'
January 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM