The Historical Construction of National Consciousness

Selected Writings
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-615-5225-27-7
Verlag: Central European University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

A long 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 Czeslaw Milosz. The present volume offers English-language readers a rich selection of the depth and breadth of the legacy of Jeno Szucs (1928–1988).

The selection documents Szucs’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 Szucs in a transnational context, offers a unique insight into the complex and sensitive debate on national identity in post-1945 East Central Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sz¿cs, Jen¿

Gyáni, Gábor

Szucs, Jeno

Klaniczay, Gábor

Trencsényi, Balázs

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reading and Rereading Jeno Szucs

“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 “Origins” and National Consciousness

A Bibliography of Published Works by Jeno Szucs
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gyáni, Gábor
Gábor Gyáni is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Szucs, Jeno
Jeno Szucs (1928-1988) was a Hungarian historian.

Trencsényi, Balázs
Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.

Klaniczay, Gábor
Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.