Political myth in Central and Eastern Europe glorifying Habsburg rule
Map of the territorial evolution of the domains under the rule of the House of Habsburg
The Habsburg Myth (German: Habsburgischer Mythos or Habsburgmythos; Italian: Mito asburgico) is the name given to a political myth present in the historiography and literature of some Central and Eastern European countries, particularly in Austria, according to which the past rule of the Habsburg monarchy led to an era of prosperity in the region to look back on.[1] The concept was coined by the Italian Germanist Claudio Magris in his 1963 thesis Il mito asburgico nella letteratura austriaca moderna ("The Habsburg Myth in modern Austrian literature").[2]
Some important novelists that helped the emergence of what is nowadays referred to as the Habsburg Myth were Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth.[3] A possible correlation has been made between the Habsburg Myth and the rise of fascism in parts of Europe in the 20th century.[4] It has also been related to the current European Union (EU), as some early proponents of European integration and a pan-European identity were inspired in the supranational multiethnic Habsburg Monarchy.[3]
^Bialasiewicz, Luiza (2003). "Another Europe: remembering Habsburg Galicja". Cultural Geographies. 10 (1). Department of Geography, Durham University: 21–44. doi:10.1191/1474474003eu258oa. S2CID 96459850.
^Wolf, Norbert Christian; Martin, Victoria; Holmes, Deborah (2020). "Claudio Magris's "Habsburg Myth": A Response to Hermann Broch's Reading of Hofmannsthal and Kraus". Austrian Studies. 28. Modern Humanities Research Association: 148–165. doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.28.2020.0148. JSTOR 10.5699/austrianstudies.28.2020.0148. S2CID 235027290.
^ abThompson, Helen (2020). "The Habsburg Myth and the European Union". In Duina, Francesco; Merand, Frédéric (eds.). Europe's Malaise: The Long View. Research in Political Sociology. Vol. 27. Emerald Group Publishing. pp. 45–66. doi:10.1108/S0895-993520200000027005. ISBN 978-1-83909-042-4. ISSN 0895-9935. S2CID 224991526.
^Beller, Steven (2017). "The Habsburg Myth and the rise of fascism". The German Quarterly. 90 (3). Wiley: 351–353. JSTOR 44968556.
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