The Siege of Szigetvár, the Death of Süleyman the Magnificent and Nicholas Zrínyi (1566)
“The Battle for Central Europe”, edited by Pál Fodor, was published in February 2019 by BRILL.
“In The Battle for Central Europe specialists in sixteenth-century Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian history provide the most comprehensive picture possible of a battle that determined the fate of Central Europe for centuries. Not only the siege and the death of its main protagonists are discussed, but also the wider context of the imperial rivalry and the empire buildings of the competing great powers of that age.
Contributors include Gábor Ágoston, János B. Szabó, Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, Günhan Börekçi, Feridun M. Emecen, Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra, István Fazekas, Pál Fodor, Klára Hegyi, Colin Imber, Damir Karbić, József Kelenik, Zoltán Korpás, Tijana Krstić, Nenad Moačanin, Gülru Neci̇poğlu, Erol Özvar, Géza Pálffy, Norbert Pap, Peter Rauscher, Claudia Römer, Arno Strohmeyer, Zeynep Tarım, James D. Tracy, Gábor Tüskés, Szabolcs Varga, Nicolas Vatin.”
Pál Fodor, Ph.D. (1993), is Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has published on the political, military, administrative, and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire including The Business of State: Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s–1615) (Berlin, Klaus Schwarz, 2018).