02 February 2022
Recently, the MTA BTK Lendület Long Reformation in Eastern Europe (1500-1800) Research Group organized two events, a workshop and a book presentation. Our website will show you some impressions.
The workshop was held January 19, 2022 and surveyed the current Hungarian research trends in the field of early modern devotional cultures. The previously invited twelve research groups, including the Centre for Reformation Studies as well, had presented their agendas, results and future plans to a rather numerous audience. The immediate aim of this scholarly event was to offer an all comprising view upon the extant researches and findings regarding the complex study of early modern devotion and godly cultures of all confessions belonging to early modern Hungarian territories. The introduction of the research groups was followed by the reading of several short paper in order to illustrate and exemplify the findings of the previously introduced projects. On behalf of the CRS it was Tünde Móré, who gave a paper on the devotional reading of 16th century funeral works in the context of Long Reformation.
The Centre for Reformation Studies (CRS) organized a book presentation and discussion on Unitarian Reformation on January 19th, 2022 at Kolozsvár (Klausenburg/Cluj-Napoca). The event, which commenced with the introduction of the „Long Reformation in Eastern Europe (1500-1800)” research project, was hosted by the House of Religious Freedom. This beautiful venue, which had preserved the actual early modern style of the edifice erected and further improved around the sixteenth century, used to be the residence of the Unitarian bishops. Thus Dr. Edit Szegedi’s monograph written in Romanian on The History of Antitrinitarism in Early Modern Transylvania has been introduced in a most fitting environment. The host of the event was Dr. Sándor Kovács professor of Church History at the Babes-Bolyai University, who moderated the entire discussion completed by Dr. Zsombor Tóth, the project leader of the MTA BTK Lendület Long Reformation in Eastern Europe 1500−1800 project, who introduced to the audience this research project and the Centre for Reformation Studies launched in June 2021.
