The Bánffy Family’s Court in Alsólindva and its Book Culture

Monok, István (2005) The Bánffy Family’s Court in Alsólindva and its Book Culture. In: Blue Blood, Black Ink. OSZK, Budapest, pp. 61-68. ISBN 963-200-498-1

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Abstract

The Protestant churches in the period of their establishment and consolidation in the Western part of Hungary owed a lot to the intermarrying and closely affiliated aristocratic families. This area calls for special attention from the point of view of church history because the organizational sep- aration of Protestant churches did not start until the end of the 16 th century and ended at the Syn- od of Csepreg (1612). In addition to the Zrínyis, the Nádasdy, Istvánffy, Batthyány, Thurzó and Révay families, it was up to the Bánffy family of Alsólindva to influence the changes in religion to keep it away from extremism while maintaining all the institutions of cultural life. Since there is no contemporary list left of the Bánffy library, their book culture can only be described through study- ing the history and the publications of the pub- lishing house they patronized as well as examining the Protestant intellectual circle of their court.

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