Transylvania under King Stephen Báthori IV. THE FIRST PERIOD OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF TRANSYLVANIA (1526–1606) The New State and Its External Environment in the mid-1500s

{1-657.} 2. ECONOMY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE OF THE NEW STATE

Contents

The New State and Its External Environment in the mid-1500s
The Saxon Towns and the First (Lutheran) Wave of the Reformation in Transylvania
Kolozsvár and the Anti-Trinitarians
The Market Towns of the Region East of the Tisza and the Entrenchment of Calvinism
The Villeins
The Romanians
The Disintegration of the Székely Community
The Ruling Class
Society and Political Power
Society and Culture

Transylvania under King Stephen Báthori IV. THE FIRST PERIOD OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF TRANSYLVANIA (1526–1606) The New State and Its External Environment in the mid-1500s