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• High Treason Lawsuits against Protestant Preachers and Teachers (1674)

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  Katalin S. Varga

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  The lawsuits of the 1670s have become the symbol of Protestant persecution in the historical memory of Hungary. This study focuses on illustrating the lawsuit topics, false
  arguments and false evidence, intended to frame a view on Protestants and to take
  control over on a wide range of Protestant society. My aim is to show how a conspiracy
  by seemingly lawful means was managed step by step.

• Het Nederlandbeeld van de tot de galeien veroordeelde Hongaarse predikanten*

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  László Zsigmond Bujtás

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  From already published letters of Hungarian Protestant ministers damned to the Neapolitan galleys by a special law court at Pozsony (Bratislava) in 1675 to prominent Dutch persons, from almost the galleys turns out that they called them, consequently the Netherlands as defenders of the truth belief (fides orthodoxa) who felt solidarity with fellow-Protestants (especially the Reformed ones) abroad, were ready to support them in their struggle to preserve their religious freedom and to assist to build the Church of God everywhere. The article also analyses unpublished works of the Protestant ministers and their supporter at Venice during their slavery and after their liberation by admiral Michiel de Ruyter in 1676. In these documents the same image of the Netherlands can be found but also two more epitatheta ornantia can be observed: they called the members of the States General, respectively the country as the nourishers of the Church and the greatest defenders of the truth of the Gospel.