Nagy, Ágoston (2025) Az 1809-es háborúhoz kapcsolódó propagandamunkák József nádor katonai irodájának levéltárában = A Collection of Propaganda Works Related to the 1809 War in the Records of the Palatinal Military Chancellery of Archduke Joseph. SZÁZADOK, 159 (2). pp. 225-267. ISSN 0039-8098
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Abstract
In 1809, Austria experimented with widespread propaganda at government level in order to gain popular support and mobilize the masses for the War of the Fifth Coalition. In the Kingdom of Hungary, Archduke Joseph, the Palatine and commander-in-chief of the insurrectio, was primarily responsible for managing propaganda activities. In this task he relied heavily on his chief aide-de-camp, Colonel Count Joseph von Beckers. The bureaucratic background to the Palatine’s activities – including official propaganda matters – was provided by his civil and military offices. This study deals with a collection of various propaganda works of the time, e.g. official, semi-official and unofficial ones, poems, prosaic pamphlets, war bulletins, newspapers, mostly printed and officially collected and archived at the Military Chancellery of the Palatine. Some of these works include marginalia and other notes, which can be classified into the following categories: identification (authors, translators, printers), classification (definition of the genre) and evaluation (assessment of the quality of a given work in terms of its usefulness for propaganda purposes). These brief notes allow to reconstruct the Palatine’s official view and reading. From this point of view, it is particularly important to look at the violation of the implicit norm, i.e. why certain works received a negative evaluation. The contemporary indices of the collection have also been published in an appendix, together with a modern bibliographical description of each work.
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