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This monograph, which complements the existing body of work on the Armenian diaspora in a Central European context, is the first demographic synthesis devoted to the Armenian community in Old Poland and Austrian Galicia (1772-1860). It is the story of the biological and cultural trajectory of a human life: birth, marriage, childbearing, family life, sickness, old age and death. The author enumerates the Armenian diaspora in Austrian Galicia and poses questions regarding Armenian identity, religious practices and community life. The book includes a discussion of archival sources and contains a selection of the parish family registers (status animarum) in the annex. These documents, which not only enhance the narration but also detail the Armenian families, can stimulate further research and support genealogical investigations.

Early Modern History

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Nach der Oktoberrevolution in Russland beschritt Georgien den Weg zur Selbstständigkeit. Das Deutsche Kaiserreich wurde im Mai 1918 zum Verbündeten des neuen Staates. In der auf den Ruinen der Oktoberrevolution entstandenen georgischen Republik galt Deutschland als Repräsentant der europäischen Zivilisation. Georgische Nationalisten hatten schon seit 1914 mit den militärischen Stellen Deutschlands zusammengearbeitet, um einen Aufstand gegen Russland im Kaukasus zu inszenieren. Nach der Machtübernahme der Bolschewiki in Russland unterstützte die politische Elite Georgiens die Abspaltung von Moskau und eine deutsche militärische Intervention in Georgien, um die Jungtürken ebenso wie die Bolschewiki zurückzuhalten. Für Berlin stellte die Annäherung an Tiflis eine Voraussetzung für seine orientalischen Bestrebungen dar. Giorgi Astamadze analysiert erstmals vertieft die Verhältnisse im Südkaukasus während dieser Zeit.

History, Modern --- History, Modern --- Early Modern History

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Der Band untersucht in vergleichender Perspektive, mit welchen Anstrengungen und Schwierigkeiten in der Frühen Neuzeit in Europa genealogisches Wissen gesammelt wurde. Während Genealogie bisher vor allem in ihrer sozialen Bedeutung erforscht wurde, geht es hier um die Frage ihrer Herstellung. Dabei wird deutlich, dass in der aktuellen Historiographie zu Wissen, Forschung und Gelehrten Praktiken der Genealogie eine wichtige Rolle zukommt. This book examines how genealogical knowledge was produced in Early Modern Europe. It studies the procedures and difficulties of genealogical research and highlights the many challenges that had to be overcome in the process of establishing family histories. Archives had to be visited, stone inscriptions had to be deciphered, and countless individuals had to be identified. The papers demonstrate that none of these tasks were simple and that the results of the research efforts often remained ambivalent. How early modern genealogists went about studying these questions is investigated here in a comparative perspective that includes cases from Germany, Italy, France, Wales, and beyond.

Early Modern History. --- Knowledge. --- Europe, Eastern --- History. --- Early Modern History. --- Knowledge.

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A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic methods proliferated, because a large portion of the population was living in the frontier zone, and participated (or was forced to participate) in the network of the information flow. A quantitative analysis of sixteenth-century to seventeenth-century Hungarian ciphers (300 cipher keys and 1,600 partly or entirely enciphered letters) reveals that besides the dominance of diplomatic use of cryptography, there were many examples of private applications too. This book reconstructs the main reasons and goals why historical actors chose to use ciphers in a diplomatic letter, a military order, a diary or a private letter, what they decided to encrypt, and how they perceived the dangers threatening their messages.

Cryptography --- History. --- Early modern history --- History of science --- Social history

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In this volume, a microhistorical approach is employed to provide a transcription, translation, and case-study of the proceedings (written in Latin, Italian and Arabic) of the Roman Inquisition on Malta's 1605 trial of the 'Moorish' slave Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur, who was accused and found guilty of practising magic and teaching it to the local Christians. Through both a detailed commentary and individual case-studies, it assesses what these proceedings reflect about religion, society, and politics both on Malta and more widely across the Mediterranean in the early 17th century. In so doing, this inter- and multi-disciplinary project speaks to a wide range of subjects, including magic, Christian-Muslim relations, slavery, Maltese social history, Mediterranean history, and the Roman Inquisition. It will be of interest to both students and researchers who study any of these subjects, and will help demonstrate the richness and potential of the documents in the Maltese archives. With contributions by: Joan Abela, Dionisius A. Agius, Paul Auchterlonie, Jonathan Barry, Charles Burnett, Frans Ciappara, Pierre Lory, Alex Malett, Ian Netton, Catherine R. Rider, Liana Saif.

Early Modern History --- Middle East and Islamic Studies