Whose Love of Which Country?: Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe (Studies in the History of Political Thought, 3)

Contributors to this volume seek to reconsider the heritage of discourses of patriotism and national allegiance in East Central Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. It results from an international research project, “The Intellectual History of Patriotism and the Legacy of Composite States in East Central Europe,” which brought together scholars to discuss the problem of patriotism in the light of the many levels of ethnic, cultural and political allegiances characterizing East Central Europe in early modern times. The authors analyze the complex process of the formation, reception and transmission of early modern discourses of collective identity in a regional context. Along these lines, the contributors also seek to reconfigure the geographical focus of scholarship on this topic and integrate the Eastern European contexts into the broader European discussion. Contents 5 Towards an intellectual history of patriotism in East Central Europe in the early modern period 9 Part I Humanist Visions of the Patria 81 Chapter One The reception of Erasmianism in Hungary and the contexts of the Erasmian program: The “cultural patriotism” of Benedek Komjáti 83 Chapter Two Constructing the Wallach “other” in the late Renaissance 99 Chapter Three Humanist ethics and urban patriotism in Upper Hungary in the early sixteenth century (Valentin Eck’s De reipublicae administratione) 139 Chapter Four Civic and ethnic discourses of identity in a city-state context: The case of Renaissance Ragusa 157 Chapter Five Strategies of distinction in the work of Vinko Pribojević 185 Chapter Six Indetermi-Nation: Narrative identity and symbolic politics in early modern Illyrism 211 Chapter Seven Nation, patria and the aesthetics of existence: Late humanist national discourse and its rewriting by the modern Czech nationalist movement 233 Chapter Eight Citizen, fatherland and patriotism in the political discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 263 Part II The Politics of the Estates and the Love of Fatherland 291 Chapter Nine Political humanism and the corporate theory of state: Nation, patria and virtue in Hungarian political thought of the sixteenth century 293 Chapter Ten The Hungarian roots of a Bohemian humanist: Johann Jessenius a Jessen and early modern national identity 323 Chapter Eleven Piety and Industry: Variations on patriotism in seventeenth-century Hungarian political thought 341 Chapter Twelve Illyria or what you will: Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli’s and Pavao Ritter Vitezović’s “mapping” of the borderlands recaptured from the Ottomans 359 Chapter Thirteen Patres Patriae or Proditores Patriae? Legitimizing and de-legitimizing the authority of the provincial estates in seventeenth-century Bohemia 413 Chapter Fourteen Forms of patriotism in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 451 Chapter Fifteen Two patriotisms? Opinions of townsmen and soldiers on duty to the fatherland in seventeenth-century Poland 469 Part III Political Theology and Discourses of Identity 505 Chapter Sixteen Patriotism and elect nationhood in early modern Hungarian political discourse 507 Chapter Seventeen The homiletics of political discourse: Martyrology as a (re)invented tradition in the paradigm of early modern Hungarian patriotism 553 Chapter Eighteen Defending the Catholic enterprise: National sentiment, ethnic tensions, and the Jesuit mission in seventeenth-century Hungary 577 Chapter Nineteen Patria Lost and Chosen People: The case of the seventeenth-century Bohemian Protestant exiles 595 Chapter Twenty Patriotic and “proto-national” motives in late medieval and early modern Bulgarian literature: The contexts of Paisij Hilendarski 619 Part IV Enlightenment Modalities of Patriotism 637 Chapter Twenty-One Modalities of enlightened monarchical patriotism in the mid-eighteenth century Habsburg Monarchy 639 Chapter Twenty-Two Patriotic scholarship: The adaptation of state sciences in late eighteenth-century Transylvania 671 Chapter Twenty-Three Reflections on patriotism in Polish literature in the second half of the eighteenth century 697 Chapter Twenty-Four Republican and monarchical patriotism in Polish political thought during the Enlightenment 719 Chapter Twenty-Five Das landespatriotische Programm der galizischen Stände um 1790: Von der polnischen Tradition zur Etablierung eines neuen Landespatriotismus 743 Afterword 767 List of Contributors 777 Index 787 Contributors To This Volume Seek To Reconsider The Heritage Of Discourses Of Patriotism And National Allegiance In East Central Europe Between The Sixteenth And The Eighteenth Centuries. It Results From An International Research Project, A Oethe Intellectual History Of Patriotism And The Legacy Of Composite States In East Central Europe, A Which Brought Together Scholars To Discuss The Problem Of Patriotism In The Light Of The Many Levels Of Ethnic, Cultural And Political Allegiances Characterizing East Central Europe In Early Modern Times. The Authors Analyze The Complex Process Of The Format. Towards An Intellectual History Of Patriotism In East Central Europe In The Early Modern Period -- Humanist Visions Of The Patria -- The Politics Of The Estates And The Love Of Fatherland -- Political Theology And Discourses Of Identity -- Enlightenment Modalities Of Patriotism. Edited By Balázs Trencsényi, Márton Zászkaliczky. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The volume, stemming from the long-term cooperation of scholars working on East Central European intellectual history, discusses the patterns of patriotic and national identification in the light of the multiplicity of levels of ethnic, cultural and polit