Brill The Battle for Central Europe: The Siege of Szigetvár and the Death of Süleyman the Magnificent and Nicholas Zrínyi (1566)

In The Battle for Central Europe the best specialists of the respective fields give a comprehensive overview of the Ottoman-Habsburg imperial rivalry in Central Europe in the age of Süleyman the Magnificent. Review [...] 'The ambitions of this volume far exceed commemoration of the siege or the prominent deaths closely linked with it. The Battle for Central Europe takes up a multilayered, inter-imperial approach to a complex set of historical developments. [...] As a commemoration of 1566, the volume succeeds in offering a detailed, multifaceted approach to the widest range of historical developments attached to Szigetvár. In fact, for such a wide-ranging set of contributions, the volume is remarkably coherent because it is organized around a relatively narrow and self-contained set of historical events. For these reasons, the volume is a welcome addition to existing scholarship. Christopher Markiewicz, University of Birmingham, in Turkish Historical Review, vol.10, nos.2-3, 2019 About the Author 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 (1580s1615) (Berlin, Klaus Schwarz, 2018).