{"id":8325,"date":"2026-03-18T18:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iratmentoalapitvany.hu\/kiadvanyok\/beyond-politics-and-literature\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:01:26","slug":"beyond-politics-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"kiadvanyok","link":"https:\/\/iratmentoalapitvany.hu\/en\/publications\/beyond-politics-and-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Politics and Literature&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his research, the author reconstructs the history of a Reformed lesser noble family of major landed wealth that played a significant role in cultural, political, and ecclesiastical affairs in the 18th\u201319th centuries, and which rose to the ranks of the aristocracy by the end of the 18th century. The work focuses primarily on aspects of landholding and economic history, drawing largely on the processing of primary sources preserved in the family archive that have hitherto been only sporadically utilized. Earlier studies and volumes on the family have concentrated chiefly on the lives and activities of the two best-known members, P\u00e1l I and Gedeon I R\u00e1day, while the history of the estates forming the basis of the family\u2019s wealth has until now remained largely neglected.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The author, Kriszti\u00e1n Kov\u00e1cs, was born in 1984 in Balassagyarmat. He obtained his degree from the Faculty of Humanities at Eszterh\u00e1zy K\u00e1roly College in Eger in 2008. Since 2017, he has been employed at the Balassagyarmat Branch Archive of the N\u00f3gr\u00e1d County Archives of the Hungarian National Archives. His primary research interests include the history and office-holding of county noble families, as well as genealogical research relating to both urban and rural populations.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He completed and successfully defended his PhD dissertation at the Doctoral School of History of K\u00e1roli G\u00e1sp\u00e1r University of the Reformed Church in Hungary in 2024, under the title \u201cBeyond Politics and Literature\u2026 The Landholding History and Economy of the R\u00e1day Family from Its Origins to the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.\u201d The dissertation was preceded by nearly sixteen years of research. Following the completion of his degree, the author began a systematic investigation of the history of the R\u00e1day family, collecting and processing the surviving archival material of the family, which is considerable by the standards of lesser noble family archives.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The author has chosen a topic that, while less fashionable today, is nevertheless of great importance and rooted in strong traditions within Hungarian historiography. The dissertation offers a comprehensive analysis across five major chapters, each addressing a distinct aspect of the R\u00e1day family\u2019s history. The first chapter outlines the family\u2019s early history from the 13th century onward. The second examines the history of landholding from the mid-17th century\u2014when the foundations of the family estate were established\u2014through to the first third of the 19th century, when the estate structure began to fragment. The third traces the development of estate administration, demonstrating how, over the course of a century and a half, it evolved from direct seigneurial management into a complex, hierarchical system at the highest level of estate governance. The fourth chapter focuses on economic activity, including crop production, animal husbandry, demesne viticulture, various forms of seigneurial income, and the range of peasant obligations characteristic of the R\u00e1day estates. Finally, the fifth chapter, through an analysis of property and credit transactions, reveals how an increasing number of estates passed out of the family\u2019s control and how the family became irreversibly indebted by the late 1820s. Based on an exceptionally rich archival source base, the work provides a highly detailed, longue dur\u00e9e overview of the R\u00e1day family\u2019s economic management from the early modern period to the early nineteenth century.           <\/p>\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book details:<\/h5>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>Author:<\/em><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Kov\u00e1cs Kriszti\u00e1n<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>Title:<\/em><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">A politik\u00e1n \u00e9s irodalmon t\u00fal\u2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>Subtitle:<\/em><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">A R\u00e1day csal\u00e1d birtokl\u00e1st\u00f6rt\u00e9nete \u00e9s gazd\u00e1lkod\u00e1sa (16\u201319. sz\u00e1zad)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>Series:<\/em><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Doktori disszert\u00e1ci\u00f3k a Magyar Nemzeti Lev\u00e9lt\u00e1rb\u00f3l 8.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>Publisher:<\/em><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Magyar Nemzeti Lev\u00e9lt\u00e1r \u00e9s Iratment\u0151 Alap\u00edtv\u00e1ny<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>Length:<\/em><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">355 pages, hardcover volume<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>ISBN:<\/em><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">978-963-631-374-6 (printed), 978-963-631-375-3 (e-book) <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"real3dflipbook\" id=\"4_6ab151f727a5c\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8211,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"class_list":["post-8325","kiadvanyok","type-kiadvanyok","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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