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The Natales Divo Ladislavo Restituti: „Nationalization“ of St.Ladislas in the Seventeenth-Century Croatia

An indispensable element of all early modern national ideologemes was a respectable canon of national saints whose main ideological function was to enable nationalization of sacral and sacralization of the national. As an illustrative example, this paper will focus on „nationalization“ of medieval Hungarian king Ladislaus I (c. 1040-1095) whose cult was not only a vital part of historical representation but also emancipative programme of the Croatian Estates during the 17th century. This phenomenon will be traced from the first „national“ hagiography Regiae sanctitatis Illyricanae foecunditas (1630) written by Ioannes Tomcus Marnavitius (1580-1637) to historical polemics Natales Divo Ladislavo Regi Slavoniae Apostolo restituti (1704) published by Paulus Ritter Vitezović (1652-1713), when “nationalization project” of St. Ladislaus nationalization reached its peak. As appointed historian of Croatian Estates, in the mentioned work Paulus Ritter systematically expounded 19 “irrefutable” historical arguments which were meant to prove undoubtedly that St. Ladislaus was originally Croatian, not Hungarian sacred and apostolic king. It demonstrates clearly that St. Ladislaus was highly contested sacral figure whose cult was a symbolic pivot of various ideological and political aspirations of Croatian intellectual elite.

Pavao Ritter Vitezović, rasprava o sv. Ladislavu, nacionalni sveci

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