Latin at the Crossroads of Identity

The Evolution of Linguistic Nationalism in the Kingdom of Hungary
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30017-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Central and Eastern Europe

From the late 18th century in the multi-ethnic Kingdom of Hungary, new language-based national identities came to dominate over those that had previously been constructed on legal, territorial, or historical basis. While the Hungarian language struggled to emancipate itself, the roles and functions of Latin (the official language until 1844) were changing dramatically. Latin held a different significance for varying segments of society, from being the essential part of an individual identity to representing an obstacle to “national survival”; from guaranteeing harmony between the different linguistic communities to hindering change, social and political justice. This pioneering volume aims to highlight the ways language debates about Latin and Hungarian contributed to the creation of new identities and ideologies in Central Europe.

Contributors include Gábor Almási, Per Pippin Aspaas, Piroska Balogh, Henrik Hönich, László Kontler, István Margócsy, Alexander Maxwell, Ambrus Miskolczy, Levente Nagy, Nenad Ristovic, Andrea Seidler, Teodora Shek Brnardic, Zvjezdana Sikiric Assouline, and Lav Šubaric

Autoren/Hrsg.

Almási, Gábor

Subaric, Lav

Šubaric, Lav

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Map of Hungary c. 1790

Introduction
Gábor Almási and Lav Šubaric

The Politics of Language

When Language Became Ideology: Hungary in the Eighteenth Century
István Margócsy

Which Language and Which Nation? Mother Tongue and Political Languages. Insights from a Pamphlet Published in 1790
Henrik Hönich

‘Hungarus Consciousness’ in the Age of Early Nationalism
Ambrus Miskolczy

Before and after 1773: Central European Jesuits, the Politics of Language and Discourses of Identity in the Late Eighteenth Century Habsburg Monarchy
Per Pippin Aspaas and László Kontler

Dilemmas of Latin in Education and Media

The Enlightenment’s Choice of Latin: the Ratio educationis of 1777 in the Kingdom of Hungary
Teodora Shek Brnardic

The Long Road of Hungarian Media to Multilingualism: on the Replacement of Latin in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Course of the Eighteenth Century
Andrea Seidler

The Language Question and the Paradoxes of Latin Journalism in Eighteenth-century Hungary
Piroska Balogh

The Other Hungarians

From the Aftermath of 1784 to the Illyrian Turn: The Slow Demise of the Official Latin in Croatia
Lav Šubaric

The Latin Speeches in the Croatian Parliament: Collective and Personal Identities
Zvjezdana Sikiric Assouline

Latin as the Panslavonic Language, 1790-1848
Alexander Maxwell

Latin and Vernacular Relations in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: the Serbian Case
Nenad Ristovic

Romans, Romanians and Latin-speaking Hungarians. The Latin Language in Hungarian-Romanian Intellectual Discourse (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)
Levente Nagy

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gábor Almási, Ph.D. (1972), Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, is external researcher at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies. His interests range from Renaissance studies to pre-modern nationalism. He is the author of Uses of Humanism (Brill, 2009).

Lav Šubaric, Ph.D. (1971), University of Innsbruck, is key researcher at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies. His interests include manuscript studies, Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin studies. He has co-authored Tyrolis Latina. Geschichte der Lateinischen Literatur in Tirol (Böhlau, 2012).