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Join Georg B. Michels for the launch of his new book, The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76). The event is hosted by the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada.
Moderator: Christopher Adam
Presenter: Georg B. Michels
Discussants: Stephan Sander-Faes (University of Bergen, Norway) and Yasir Yilmaz (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
Georg B. Michels is professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.
Based on extensive research in Hungarian, Austrian, and Dutch archives, this revisionist study shifts attention away from high politics, diplomacy, and military confrontation to the popular revolts that took place during the two decades before the 1683 siege of Vienna. Michels reveals a complex environment in which Calvinist Hungarians, Lutheran Slovaks, Lutheran Germans, and Orthodox Ukrainians worked to defend their religion against brutal Habsburg Counter-Reformation campaigns. Challenging preconceived notions of European, Middle Eastern, and East European history, this book tells a dramatic story of Reformation and Counter-Reformation violence, covering proxy wars, guerrilla warfare, refugee flight, migration from Hungary into Ottoman territory, and largely unknown Christian-Muslim encounters.
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