Egység és széttagozódás. A magyar politikai gondolkodás a 16–17. század fordulóján két ismeretlen dokumentum tükrében
Unification and Division: Hungarian Political Thought at the Turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Mirror of Two Unknown Documents

Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to shed light on the basic concepts of early modern Hungarian political thought through the analysis of two hitherto unknown documents: a comprehensive reform draft written around 1580 (Libellus Paraeneticus) and a political pamphlet written around 1625 (Responsio). The starting point is a 1995 study by Katalin Péter, who noted the slow divergence and fragmentation of the concepts of “homeland,” “country” and “nation” during the long period of the Ottoman occupation and threefold division of the former Kingdom of Hungary. The paper argues that this change occurred much more rapidly as a result of the long Turkish war (1591-1606) and the Bocskai uprising (1604-1606) in the early 17th century, and that it has also fundamentally determined and modified the modern understanding of the concept of Hungarian nation.

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