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Quisquis est in aulis magnorum principum... : Udvari tanácsosok, Habsburg uralom és a régi magyar királyi udvar emléke Révay Péter De monarchia című munkájában = Quisquis est in aulis magnorum principum... : Court Counselors, Habsburg Reign and the Memory of the Old Hungarian Royal Court in Péter Révay's De monarchia

Tóth, Gergely (2021) Quisquis est in aulis magnorum principum... : Udvari tanácsosok, Habsburg uralom és a régi magyar királyi udvar emléke Révay Péter De monarchia című munkájában = Quisquis est in aulis magnorum principum... : Court Counselors, Habsburg Reign and the Memory of the Old Hungarian Royal Court in Péter Révay's De monarchia. In: Latin nyelvű udvari kultúra Magyarországon a 15–18. században. Convivia Neolatina Hungarica (4). Lazi Könyvkiadó Kft., Szeged, pp. 117-128.

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Abstract

This study examines how the princely court as a concept and the Habsburg dynasty as an actual power appears in the history of Hungary entitled De monarchia et sacra corona Regni Hungariae centuriae septem, written by the Lutheran lord and royal councilor, Péter Révay (1568–1622), and it also examines how he depicts the royal coronations held in Pozsony (today’s Bratislava). In his work, the author repeatedly referred to the problem of the court as a center of power, which was embodied in the exhortations addressed to the prince's counselors and to the prince himself. In this respect he was strongly influenced by the political literature of the time (mainly the works of Guevara and Lipsius, and to a lesser extent Bodin). Révay's relationship to actual princely power, that is, to the Habsburgs, is characterized by loyalty, but he made it a condition that the privileges of the secular elite be respected, namely, under the laws of 1608. The author considered Pozsony, and not Vienna, to be the capital of the country, and wrote in particular detail about the coronations of Anna of Tyrol and Ferdinand II (1613, 1618), which took place there. During these occasions, the old Hungarian royal court briefly came to life, as the members of the Hungarian elite actively revived their court positions (master of the table, etc.), and Révay was the chief organizer of the two ceremonies as a Royal Courtmaster. Presumably this is why it was important for him to capture these coronations, and because in this way he was able to emphasize the old glory and independence of the Kingdom of Hungary.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > D3 Mediaeval History / középkor története
D History General and Old World / történelem > DN Middle Europe / Közép-Európa > DN1 Hungary / Magyarország
Depositing User: Dr. Gergely Tóth
Date Deposited: 10 Nov 2021 08:16
Last Modified: 10 Nov 2021 08:16
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/133415

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