The nation in the city: ceremonial (re)burials and patriotic mythmaking in turn-of-the-century Budapest

Abstract

ABSTRACT:The funerals and reburials of prominent Hungarian leaders (Count Lajos Batthyány, Ferenc Deák, Lajos Kossuth and Prince Ferenc Rákóczi II) over the course of the Dualist decades (1867–1918) – a time period when Hungary was integrated into a federal structure with Austria – were important moments in the imagining of Hungarian national identity. The article argues that turn-of-the-century Budapest served not just as stage for patriotic mythmaking on the occasion of these funeral ceremonies but was both affected by and shaped the former's content and significance.

Spatial culture, processional culture and the materialities of social memory in nineteenth-century Sheffield

“…how the city 'means' or 'comes-to-meaning' as a social entity). A number of recent historical studies have provided useful accounts of the material context of urban processions (for example Georgiou 2016;Vari 2013;Vandeweghe 2011;Favro and Johanson 2010;Fassler 2007) but these still leave the crucial question of the material agency of the city, with regard to the production of its social, political and cultural symbols, rather under-conceptualized (though see Nejad 2013).…”