Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Maps and Figures

Introduction

Chapter 1

The Beginnings of an Ecclesiastical Career

Transylvania and its Surroundings in the Mid-Seventeenth Century

Before Peregrination

Peregrination

Franeker and Leiden

Cambridge and Edinburgh

Experiences during Peregrination

The Puritan Rector?

Chapter 2

In the Service of the Prince

The Office of the Turkish Scribe at the Sublime Porte

The Micro-Society of the Transylvanian Embassy in Constantinople

Living Conditions in Constantinople

Chapter 3

Years of Turmoil

The Last Years in Transylvania

Hungary, Moravia, Muscovy

Stettin

Court Society under the Exiled Voievod

Chapter 4

The Court Councillor of the Great Elector

In the Service of the Elector

The Colloquia Familiaria: Genre and Sources

The Afterlife of the Colloquia Familiaria

A Hungarian Emigrant in Berlin

Chapter 5

The Bureaucrat and the Intellectual

The Bureaucrat

The Intellectual

Harsányi, the Puritan?

Chapter 6

Harsányi’s Changing Image of the Turks

“A Turk” or “Various Turks”?

Elements of the Image

Greed: “The Emperor of this World is Money” 

Treachery: “Turkish Friendship” 

Discipline: “Where a Turkish Soldier Put his Feet, the Grass Grows no More”  

Infidels: “But Our People Know the Right Path and the Orders of God”

A Positive Image of the Turks and its Conclusions

What Made Harsányi’s Image of the Turks Change?

Different Conclusions: The Legate and the Interpreter

Harsányi’s Conclusions: A Plea for an Anti-Ottoman War

Instead of a Conclusion

Appendix 1

Known Copies of the Colloquia

Appendix 2

A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe

Bibliography

Index