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Author Szűcs, Jenő, author

Title The historical construction of national consciousness : selected writings / Jenő Szűcs ; edited by Gábor Klaniczay, Balázs Trencsényi, Gábor Gyáni
Published Budapest ; Vienna ; New York : Central European University Press, 2022

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Contents Introduction: Reading and rereading Jenő Szűcs -- "Nationality" and "national consciousness" in the Middle Ages: towards the development of a common conceptual language -- "Gentilism": the question of barbarian ethnic consciousness -- Theoretical elements in Master Simon of Kéza's Gesta Hungarorum (1282-1285) -- Nation and people in the late Middle Ages -- The ideology of György Dózsa's Peasant War -- The three historical regions of Europe -- Questions of "origin" and national consciousness -- A bibliography of published works by Jenő Szűcs
Summary "A short essay entitled Three Historical Regions of Europe, appearing first in a samizdat volume in Budapest in 1980, instantly put its author into the forefront of the transnational debate on Central Europe, alongside such intellectual luminaries as Milan Kundera and Czesław Miłosz. The present volume offers English-language readers a rich selection of the depth and breadth of the legacy of Jenő Szűcs (1928-1988). The selection documents Szűcs's seminal contribution to many contemporary debates in historical anthropology, nationalism studies, and conceptual history. It contains his key texts on the history of national consciousness and patterns of collective identity, as well as medieval and early modern political thought. The works published here, most of them previously unavailable in English, provide a sophisticated analysis of a wide range of subjects from the myths of origins of Hungarians before Christianization to the political and religious ideology of the Dózsa peasant uprising in 1514, the medieval roots of civil society, or the revival of ethnic nationalism during the communist era. The volume, with an introduction by the editors locating Szűcs in a transnational context, offers a unique insight into the complex and sensitive debate on national identity in post-1945 East Central Europe"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis historiography, nationalism, conceptual history, national identity, ethnic identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from Hungarian
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Subject Nationalism -- Europe, Central -- History
Ethnicity -- Europe, Central -- History
Nationalism -- Hungary -- History
Ethnicity -- Hungary -- History
HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary.
HISTORY / Europe / Medieval.
Ethnicity
Historiography
Nationalism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Europe, Central -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93002972
Europe, Central -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003219
Europe, Central -- Historiography
Hungary -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063046
Hungary -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063073
Hungary -- Historiography
Subject Central Europe
Hungary
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Klaniczay, Gábor, editor
Trencsényi, Balázs, 1973- editor.
Gyáni, Gábor, editor
LC no. 2022020098
ISBN 9786155225390
6155225397
9633864755
9789633864753
6155225273
9786155225277
Other Titles Essays. Selections. English