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Zrinski-Myths: A Vehicle for Imperial and National Narratives

The Zrinskis (Hungarian: Zrínyi), a notable Croatian (and Hungarian) aristocratic family, played a central role during the period of history marked by the Ottoman wars in Hungary and Croatia, at that time already part of the Habsburg Empire. The most distinguished members of the house included Nikola Šubić Zrinski (Miklós Zrínyi, 1508–1566), viceroy of Croatia and an Austrian imperial general, known for his heroic involvement in the Battle of Szigetvár 1566, and his great- grandson Petar Zrinski (Péter Zrínyi, 1621–1671), viceroy of Croatia and a Baroque poet, who was involved in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian Magnate conspiracy to overthrow the Habsburgs, which ultimately led to his execution for high treason. During the 19th century in Croatia, both of them served as an inspiration for myth-making, a phenomenon that, combined with certain (supra)national political concepts, found a great echo in different cultural forms. But while the myth of the elder Zrinski was used as a framework for imperial as well as for Croatian national narratives, the myth built around his descendant has been instrumentalized by exclusively national, anti-Habsburg oriented narratives. This topic will be examined in the following paper through the example of some representative Croatian literary texts of the 19th century.

Zrinski-myths, postimperial narratives, Körner, Zajc/Badalić, Kumičić

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