Veres Gábor - Berecz Mátyás (szerk.): Hagyomás és megújulás - Életpályák és társadalmi mobilitás a végváriak körében - Studia Agriensia 27. (Eger, 2008)
G. ETÉNYI NÓRA: Végvári karrierek nemzetközi híre
Nóra G. Etényi BORDER CASTLE CAREERS AND THEII INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION From the moment they began until they finally ended the wars i Turks were accompanied by an intensive propaganda campaign, mary aim was by no means to convince the enemy. Rather, the merr anti-Turkish alliance were eager to make cases for their own rr political prowess in the hope of influencing posterity. Although b> the 17th century the court of emperor Leopold 1 had increased th information with the help of officially released military bulletins ai the emperor was forced to acknowledge that there were many sources available interpreting events in altogether different ways, tlefield, and in the vigorous debates going on within political cir clear to everybody beyond the immediate decision makers that the nessing a shift in power. For the Hungarian political elite the ke how they would be able to establish a new position. The most trat at the same time most demonstrative, way of doing this was to mi personal contribution to the war against the Turks, before having proclaimed to the world at large. Individual feats during the borde tilities were described in their own words by the Hungarian poli many literary genres from the 16th century onwards. Indeed, ma graphics also appeared. During the course of the 1663-64 war th military were rather successful in publicising their role in the wa Turks to an international audience. The praises of the most senic dignitaries were sung in the weekly bulletins and the printed ne\ well as on the handbills that had the widest readership, ft was at t it proved possible to associate the political interests of the e: Kingdom of Hungary with those of the Holy Roman Empire. B; the war to expel the Turks, however, it was the propaganda of t) electors and princes that dominated, as the Hungarian political < come up with a uniform response to the new challenges they fac the Hungarian magnates loyal to the throne (Pál Esterház Batthyányi, János Pálfly, Károly Pálfify) and their armies’ batth í
