1st Edition
A Cloister on Trial Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary
Introduction. Part I Contexts: The trial; The cardinal and religious reform. Part II Reading the Trial Text: The protocol; The witnesses; Narrative, memory, and identity. Part III Religion, Reform, and Reformation: Townspeople and friars; Religion; Morality; Ritual and community; The landlord; Conclusion: lay agency in reform and Reformation. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Gabriella Erdélyi (PhD 2003) is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of History of the Research Centre for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest. She is the author of Runaway Friars. Violence and Youth in Late Medieval Hungary (in Hungarian), 2011 and a number of articles on religion, church and society in the late medieval and early modern period.
"The publication in English of A cloister on trial at a time when the quincentenary of the Reformation is being celebrated brings one of the best examples of Hungarian microhistory within easy reach of the interested general reader in Europe and beyond."
- ISTVÁN SZIJÁRTÓ, EÖTVÖS UNIVERSITY, HUNGARY
