Social and Cultural History of the Hungarian Diet in the 18th Century: Preliminary results and future tasks. Cover Image

Sociálne a kultúrne dejiny uhorského snemu v 18. storočí: čiastkové výsledky a zrejmé úlohy
Social and Cultural History of the Hungarian Diet in the 18th Century: Preliminary results and future tasks.

Author(s): István M. Szijártó
Subject(s): History
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: Historiography; Kingdom of Hungary; 18th century; Diet; Confessionalism vs constitutionalism

Summary/Abstract: A renewed interest in the history of the early modern Hungarian estates enables us to review this field of scholarship, to sum up the most recent results of the history of the Diet, the central institution of Hungarian politics in the 18th century, to map the various possibilities offered by social and cultural history, and to point out the opportunity to apply a microhistorical approach. Finally, the essay examines a hypothesis on a decisive change in 18th-century Hungarian politics, a mid-century shift from the ‘confessionalism of the estates’ to the ‘constitutionalism of the estates’.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 257-269
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Slovak