In: ARS, vol. 55, no. 2
Veronika Kucharská
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Year, pages: 2022, 152 - 168
Language: slo
Keywords:
St. John the Merciful, cult, Bratislava, Habsburg dynasty, Emmerich Esterházi, Kingdom of Hungary, identity and legitimacy
Article type: Štúdie / Articles
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After the battle of Mohács, the new king Ferdinand of Habsburg had the relics of the Saint John the
Merciful (Almsgiver) placed in the St. Martin‘s Cathedral in Bratislava. The city became the capital of
the Kingdom of Hungary and, between 1563 and 1830, the place where members of the Habsburg
dynasty were crowned Hungarian kings. The relics served not only for religious purposes but also
for the specific needs of the dynasty or the ruler in the context of the time – political, power or
propaganda. The paper will try to approach the fate of the relics and the cult of St. John the Merciful
in Bratislava and related questions: what role did the saint‘s relics play in legitimizing the rule of the
new Habsburg dynasty in the Kingdom of Hungary, or how did they contribute to the formation
and establishment of its identity in the Central European space? Were they influential in shaping the
identity of Bratislava as the capital of the Habsburg monarchy, with St. Martin‘s Cathedral as the
main coronation church of the Habsburgs?
How to cite:
ISO 690:
Kucharská, V. 2022. Patrón dynastie a mesta? Sv. Ján Almužník a jeho kult pri formovaní dynastickej a mestskej identity. In ARS, vol. 55, no.2, pp. 152-168. 0044-9008. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2022-0010
APA:
Kucharská, V. (2022). Patrón dynastie a mesta? Sv. Ján Almužník a jeho kult pri formovaní dynastickej a mestskej identity. ARS, 55(2), 152-168. 0044-9008. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2022-0010
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Published: 19. 12. 2022