Latin at the crossroads of identity : the evolution of linguistic nationalism in the Kingdom of Hungary
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Latin at the crossroads of identity : the evolution of linguistic nationalism in the Kingdom of Hungary
（Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context, v. 5）
Brill, c2015
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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 Gabor Almasi, Per Pippin Aspaas, Piroska Balogh, Henrik Hoenich, Laszlo Kontler, Istvan Margocsy, Alexander Maxwell, Ambrus Miskolczy, Levente Nagy, Nenad Ristovic, Andrea Seidler, Teodora Shek Brnardic, Zvjezdana Sikiric Assouline, and Lav Subaric
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Map of Hungary c. 1790
Introduction
Gabor Almasi and Lav Subaric
The Politics of Language
When Language Became Ideology: Hungary in the Eighteenth Century
Istvan Margocsy
Which Language and Which Nation? Mother Tongue and Political Languages. Insights from a Pamphlet Published in 1790
Henrik Hoenich
'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 Laszlo 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 Subaric
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
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