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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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