Confessionalization on the Frontier

The Balkan Catholics between Roman Reform and Ottoman Reality

Antal Molnár

• Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice
• Year: 2021
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9788833136271
• Subtopic: Early Modern History
• Index: History

This book presents a lesser-known chapter of the cultural history of the Ottoman Balkans, the world of its Catholic communities and institutions. Alongside Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Jews, Catholics lived in nearly every area of the Balkan Peninsula in the 16th and 17th centuries. The great religious revolution of the early modern age, confessionalization, did not leave the Balkan Catholics untouched. Unlike the Christian confessional states of Europe, the Ottoman Empire, with Islam as its state religion, neither assisted nor impeded the formation of denominations, but put many obstacles in the way of their institutional growth. The confessionalization of Catholics in the European frontier regions of the Ottoman Empire thus resulted in a peripheral and unestablished Catholicism. This book explores the peculiarities of this local Catholic confessionalization in the Balkans through a micro-analytical approach. The prime objective of the book is to contribute – through an exploration of the history of the Balkan Catholics – to the renewal of research into the early modern Mediterranean world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Bosnian Franciscans between Roman Centralization and Balkan Confessionalization
• 3. The Holy Office and the Balkan Missions before the Foundation of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide (1622)
• 4. Venetian South-Eastern Europe and Ottoman Hungary
• 5. Struggle for the Chapel of Belgrade (1612-1643)
• 6. The Struggle for the Chapel of Novi Pazar (1627-1630)
• 7. The Catholic Missions and the Origins of Albanian Nation-Buildingat the Beginning of the 17th Century
• 8. The Serbian Orthodox Church and the Attempts at Unionwith Rome in the 17th Century
• 9. The Balkan Missions under the Pontificate of Innocent XI (1676-1689): from Apogee to Ruin
• 10. La Schiavona. A Bosnian Girl between Catholic Hagiographyand Balkan Female Transvestism
• Glossary of Ottoman and South Slavic Terms
• Maps
• Bibliography
• Index of names and places