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Why Did Gubec Have to Die Dózsa’s Death? Historical Representations of the Croatian Peasant Rebellion of 1573 and of Its Leader’s Public Execution

The authoress provides insight into the lengthy debate on peasant uprisings, especially The Great Peasant Rebellion (1573), which was among obligatory themes in narratives of Croatian history from the 19th century to date, and possibly the most extensively researched topic from Croatian early modern history. The Dózsa uprising was only sporadically mentioned in Croatian historiography even though it had tangible legal and socioeconomic consequences in the Croatian-Slavonian Kingdom and despite the fact that Dózsa’s legendary death obviously served as a model for Gubec’s death. In order to offer some comparative material for discussion on the ideological usage of the Dózsa’s uprising and death, the authoress firstly briefly delineated the main stages in the development of explanatory models of the 1573 rebellion and pointed to its political and public uses and ideological functions. Arguably, while the ideological framework for the narration of Gubec’s role in the rebellion and his death was changing, the brutality of the execution was not systematically approached from the perspective of cultural history or the history of violence. Gubec’s death has been presented from totally opposite moral and ideological standpoints over the past five centuries, from deserved punishment to martyrdom. Still, stages of his torture and execution were not analyzed from the perspective of the history of penal and coercion systems or the history of the body. Therefore, in the second part, the authoress focused on the presentation of Gubec’s death and questioned the motives and symbolism behind the course and methods of his torture and execution.

Violence ; corporal punishment ; peasant rebellion ; Matija Gubec ; György Dózsa ; early modern ; ideological uses of the past ; historical representation ; 16th century

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