PAMÄŤ A OSLAVY STOROČNÍC „GÉNIA NÁRODA“, „NAJVÄČŠIEHO MAĎARA“ A „MUDRCA VLASTI“ V MESTÁCH ZVOLENSKEJ, NOVOHRADSKEJ A GEMERSKO-MALOHONTSKEJ ŽUPY

• Authors: Alica Kurhajcová

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Memory and celebrations of the centenaries of the “Genius of the Nation”, “Greatest Hungarian” and “Wiseman of the Homeland” in the towns of the counties of Zvolen, Novohrad and Gemer-Malohont

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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In the period of formation of modern nations, celebrations of a political character served as media and formative instruments for collective or national historical memory. This study is directed towards specific celebrations – for the centenaries of three Hungarian statesmen: Lajos Kossuth (1902), István Széchenyi (1891) and Ferenc Deák (1903). It looks at the places of memory in two or three different ethno-linguistic micro-spaces, and in the public space of the counties of Zvolen (Banská Bystrica, Zvolen), Novohrad (Lučenec) and Gemer-Malohont (Rimavská Sobota). By reconstructing their ritual symbolic aspect and the associated attitudes, ideas and values, it uncovers the aim of such undertakings and the functions and forms of historical memory.

Keywords

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LAJOS KOSSUTH; ISTVÁN SZÉCHENYI; FERENC DEÁK; HISTORICAL MEMORY; CELEBRATIONS

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 467 – 485

Contributors

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Alica Kurhajcová

• Katedra histórie, Fakulta humanitných vied, Univerzita Mateja Bela Banská Bystrica, Tajovského 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic