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WHOSE LOVE OF WHICH COUNTRY?
Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe

Edited by Balázs Trencsényi and Márton Zászkaliczky

 

CONTENTS

Balázs Trencsényi and Márton Zászkaliczky, Towards an intellectual history of patriotism in East Central Europe in the early modern period

 

  • PART I
    HUMANIST VISIONS OF THE PATRIA

1. Pál Ács, The reception of Erasmianism in Hungary and the contexts of the Erasmian program: The “cultural patriotism” of Benedek Komjáti

2. Gábor Almási, Constructing the Wallach “other” in the late Renaissance

3. Farkas Gábor Kiss, Humanist ethics and urban patriotism in Upper Hungary at the turn of the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries (Valentin Eck’s De reipublicae administratione)

4. Lovro Kunčević, Civic and ethnic discourses of identity in a city-state context: The case of Renaissance Ragusa

5. Domagoj Madunić, Strategies of distinction in the works of Vinko Pribojević

6. Zrinka Blažević, Indetermi-Nation: Narrative identity and symbolic politics in early modern Illyrism

7. Lucie Storchová, Nation, patria and the aesthetics of existence: Late humanist national discourse and its rewriting by the modern Czech nationalist movement

8. Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz, Citizen, fatherland and patriotism in the political discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

 

  • PART II 
    THE POLITICS OF THE ESTATES AND THE LOVE OF FATHERLAND 

1. Benedek Varga, Political humanism and corporate theory of state: Nation, patria and virtue in Hungarian political thought of the sixteenth century

2. Kees Teszelszky, The Hungarian roots of a Bohemian humanist: Johann Jessenius a Jessen and early modern national identity

3. Hanna Orsolya Vincze, Piety and Industry: Variations on patriotism in seventeenth-century Hungarian political thought

4. Sándor Bene, Illyria or what you will: Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli’s and Pavao Ritter Vitezović’s “mapping” of the borderlands recaptured from the Ottomans

5. Petr Maťa, Patres Patriae or Proditores Patriae? Legitimizing and de-legitimizing the authority of the provincial estates in seventeenth-century Bohemia

6. Stanisław Roszak, Forms of patriotism in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

7. Urszula Augustyniak, Two patriotisms? Townsmen’s and soldiers’ opinions on duty to the fatherland in seventeenth-century Poland

 

  • PART III
    POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY 

1. Balázs Trencsényi, Patriotism and elect nationhood in early modern Hungarian political discourse

2. Zsombor Tóth, The homiletics of political discourse: Martyrology as a (re)invented tradition in the paradigm of early modern Hungarian patriotism

3. Regina Pörtner, Defending the Catholic enterprise: National sentiment, ethnic tensions, and the Jesuit mission in seventeenth-century Hungary

4. Vladimír Urbánek, Patria Lost and Chosen People: The case of seventeenth-century Bohemian Protestant exiles

5. Alexander Nikolov, Patriotic and “proto-national” motives in late medieval and early modern Bulgarian literature: The contexts of Paisij Hilendarski

Part IV Enlightenment modalities of patriotism

1. Teodora Shek-Brnardić, Modalities of enlightened monarchical patriotism in the mid-eighteenth century Habsburg Monarchy

2. Zsuzsanna Borbála Török, Patriotic scholarship: The adaptation of state sciences in late eighteenth-century Transylvania

3. Teresa Kostkiewiczowa, Reflections on patriotism in Polish literature in the second half of the eighteenth century

4. Arkadiusz Michał Stasiak, Republican and monarchical patriotism in Polish political thought during the Enlightenment

5. Miloš Řezník, Das landespatriotische Programm der galizischen Stände um 1790: Von der polnischen Tradition zur Etablierung eines neuen Landespatriotismus

 

R.J.W. Evans, Afterword