Table of Contents

Ioan Aurel Pop, Alexandru Simon : March 1475: The Italian Reception of Warfare on the Eastern Frontiers of Christendom — Zoltan Iusztin : Ratio Oeconomicam – War Economy at the South-Western Frontiers of the Hungarian Kingdom at the End of the Fifteenth Century — Adrian Magina : Living in fear. Life at the Southern Frontier of the Hungarian Kingdom (in the Fourteenth-Sixteenth centuries) — Nándor Virovecz : Ottoman advance on the North between the Capture of Buda and the Construction of the Border Fortress Line — Livia Magina : Cross-Border Mobility: War Refugees in Early Modern Transylvania — Gelu Fodor : An Eighteenth Century Constitutional Struggle: Institutions, Defence and Border Legislative Matters between the Imperial Court and the Transylvanian Diet — Liviu Cîmpeanu : Ad Retinendam Coronam. Military Organization at the Transylvanian Border in the Late Middle Ages: The Transylvanian-Saxon Militias — Florin Nicolae Ardelean : Frontiers and Military Organization in Transylvania: The Guardsman (Drabant/Darabont) during the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century — Csaba Izsán : Between Soldier and Guard: the Roles of the Town Mercenaries in the Late Sixteenth- Early Seventeenth Century Cluj (Klausenburg/Kolozsvár), Sighișoara (Schässburg/ Segesvár) and Brașov (Kronstadt/ Brassó) — Jelena Ilić Mandić : Making the Border and Frontiersmen. Militarization in Temeswarer Banat 1764-1775 — Csaba Horváth : Defending the Eastern Confines of the Habsburg Monarchy: A Forgotten Border Guard Regiment in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania — Julia Derzsi : The Border Fort and its Servants. Turnu Roșu in the Sixteenth Century — Gizella Nemeth, Adriano Papo : The Fortress of Eger in the Mid-Sixteenth Century on the Border between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire: the Siege of 1552 — Zoltán Péter Bagi : Raids and Sieges along the Habsburg-OttomnFrontier in Hungary: The Siege of Hegyesd: 31 March-9 April, 1562 — Ovidiu Cristea : Castello di Varadino passo principale della Transilvania: Giovanni Marco Isolano’s Relation on the Siege of Oradea (1598) — Florina Ciure : The Conquest of Oradea by the Habsburgs in Italian Sources (1691-1692) .

About the Author

Florin Nicolae Ardelean is a researcher at Babes‚-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. His research interests include late medieval and early modern history, military history, social history, and the history of higher education.
Liviu Cîmpeanu is a researcher at the Romanian Academy – Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu. His research interests include political and military history in the late medieval and early modern times, administrative history, juridical history, history of the Transylvanian Saxons, German and Latin paleography, and source editions.
Romulus Gelu Fodor is a researcher at Babes‚-Bolyai University and a history teacher at George Cos‚buc National College from Cluj Napoca. His research interests include early modern and modern history, legal history, medieval institutions, early modern Transylvanian institutions, and social history.
Livia Magina is a researcher at Museum of Highland Banat, Resita. Her research interests include late medieval and early modern history of Transylvania and Banat, social and administrative history, and history of writing.