Surviving intolerance towards Hungarian Protestants following the Edict ofTolerance of 1781

This study investigates the question of the survival of intolerance towards the Protestants in Hungary after the Patent of Toleration was issued(1781) . While the Patent alleviated the civil status of non-Catholics, the way va rious administrative organs operated and the attitude of the Catholic publi c as a whole to the Protestants made putting it into practice more difficul t. The study notes individual manifestations of these attitudes, but at the same time, also follows how the Protestant community reacted to the changi ng situation and their gradual expressions among the public. The implementa tion of the possibilities offered by the Toleration Patent were checked by the degree of the tolerance of the population, and to a significant degree, upon the attitudes of the clergy in individual localities