The aristocrat as a heros at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Funeral sermons over Ferenc Nádasdy and György Thurzó

Móré, Tünde (2024) The aristocrat as a heros at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Funeral sermons over Ferenc Nádasdy and György Thurzó. CAMOENAE HUNGARICAE, 9 (1). pp. 18-29. ISSN 1786-5484

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Abstract

The texts bidding farewell to members of the Nádasdy and Thurzó families show how the practice of family representation that overarches centuries influences both the commissioning of funeral orations, as well as their structure and content. Beside the roles and virtues inherited from the family, individual merits appear in the three texts to varying degrees and emphasis. The latter are linked to the activities of the deceased to defend the faith and the homeland depending on the author and the context of publication. Although the Latin-language funeral oration primarily uses the rhetorical devices of humanist laudations, the authors assume the position of an orator commemorating historical truth. The orators continue the sixteenth-century Protestant tradition in which funeral orations can be read as outlines of the history of the church, documenting the development of the Protestant church in Hungary. The novelty of the texts created at the beginning of the seventeenth century is that they place more emphasis on the state of the homeland (patria), as well as rescuing it, creating the memory of the deceased along the image of the heros.

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