HIS389H1 Lecture Notes - Romantic Nationalism, Hungarian Nobility, National Trauma
Document Summary
In the golden age of hungarian history, the seeds for tragedy are already planted. Nobility makes up about 4-5% of the population (fairly large in europe at that point in time) They had the right not pay taxes but it didn"t really matter because many were poor (landless nobles) A small number of nobles were very rich and they controlled most of the area. (they came up with the name the hungarian nation" as a name for themselves- which in turn acted like a class distinction) It was a feudal type of nobility that viewed itself as owning the land, there was no real hungarian culture, it was only the hungarian language that did so. The absolutist state could not be established in hungary, like it was in the rest of europe because of this class who did not pay taxes.
