| Uniform title | Essays. Selections. English |
| Contents |
Introduction : Reading and rereading Jen̐uo Sz̐uucs -- "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 K̐ueza's Gesta Hungarorum (1282-1285) -- Nation and people in the late Middle Ages -- The ideology of Gy̐uorgy D̐uozsa's Peasant War -- The three historical regions of Europe -- Questions of "origin" and national consciousness -- A bibliography of published works by Jen̐uo Sz̐uucs. |
| Abstract |
"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 Czes̐uaw Mi̐uosz. The present volume offers English-language readers a rich selection of the depth and breadth of the legacy of Jen̐uo Sz̐uucs (1928-1988). The selection documents Sz̐uucs'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 D̐uozsa 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 Sz̐uucs 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Translated from Hungarian. |
| Issued in other form | Online version : Sz̐uucs, Jen̐uo. Historical construction of national consciousness Budapest ; Vienna ; New York : Central European University Press, 2022 9786155225390 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022020097 |
| ISBN | 9786155225277 |
| ISBN | 6155225273 hardcover |
| ISBN | Adobe electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
