1st Edition
The Historical Construction of National Consciousness Selected Writings
360 Pages
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Central European University Press
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 Czesław Miłosz. The present volume offers English-language readers a rich selection of the depth and breadth of the... Read more
Introduction: Reading and Rereading Jen? Sz?cs, “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 Jen? Sz?cs, Index
Biography
Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.
Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.
Gábor Gyáni is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
