Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.21857/mzvkptz7r9
Szigetvári Zrínyi Miklós – Nikola Šubić Zrinski. Revising Common Croatian and Hungarian History in the Twenty First Century
Szabolcs Varga
; Pécsi Egyháztörténeti Intézet, Pécsi Püspöki Hittudományi Főiskola, Pécs, Magyarország
Sažetak
The Hungarian Government has declared 2016 a memorial year in honour of the heroic death of Nicholas of Zrin (Hung. Miklós Zrínyi, Croat. Nikola Zrinski) in 1566. This created the opportunity to organise several scholarly and cultural events where Croatians and Hungarians have been able to present their historical traditions to each other. These events have proved that the 800-years-long common history of the two nations did not go without trace. Moreover, even though the coexistence from 1102 to 1918 was highly favourable for both parties, its memory has faded in the past century.
History is not only for reconstructing the past. It is more important that the right historical knowledge can help the society get over its traumas and develop a healthy picture of itself. Our national events of outstanding importance are, in fact, our shared memories. In September 1493, Croatian nobles fought also for the Kingdom of Hungary in the field of Udbina. Slavonian nobles were also there under the banner of the Ban Francis Batthyány of Croatia-Slavonia in the battle of Mohács in 1526. Croatians and Hungarians served together under the leadership of Nicholas of Zrin in Szigetvár in 1566. The nineteenth-century nationalist thinking transformed these common historical traumas, on the one hand, into only Croatian or only Hungarian struggles, and on the other, into a long fight for the remembrance of Zrínyi/Zrinski between the writers and scholars of the two nations. During this grapple, countless common memories of the Croatian-Hungarian past have faded because the efforts aimed at strengthening national identity have focused on differences and uniqueness in all cases.
However, the global challenges of the present have made the shared history of Central Europe, and especially the historical relationship between Zagreb and Budapest, more important. The heroic death of Nicholas of Zrin in Szigetvár, and the remembrance culture developed around it might be able to direct scholarly attention to the values of the shared past and offer an opportunity for the representatives of the economic and political life to form a common future.
Ključne riječi
Nicholas of Zrin; Croatian and Hungarian historical writing; the nineteenth-century nationalism
Hrčak ID:
220280
URI
Datum izdavanja:
27.12.2018.
Posjeta: 5.357 *