Bodolai Z.: Timeless Nation
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Part 1
Preface: The Timeless Nation
Introduction: The Unsung Saga
1. THE MILLENIAL QUEST - The origins and migrations of the Hungarians
2. "A WAY OF LIFE" - The Hungarian character
3. ANCIENT ECHO - The origins and development of Hungarian folk music
Part 2
4. THE SETTLEMENT - (The occupation of the Carpathian basin. The IXth-Xth centuries)
5. THE CROSS AND THE SWORD - (Christian Hungary under the Arpad kings: 1000-1301)
6. I HIDE IN SONGS... - (The ancient roots of Hungarian folk poetry)
Part 3
7. THE UNKNOWN BARDS - (Hungarian literature before the XVIth century)
8. THE MAGNIFICENT TWILIGHT - (The era of the Anjou and Luxembourg Kings)
9. DARKNESS AFTER NOON - (Hungary’s history from 1456 to 1540)
Part 4
10. THE SPLENDOUR THAT WAS... - (Hungarian art before the sixteenth century)
11. WHERE EAST IS WEST - (The people, customs and folk art of the Transdanubian region)
12. THE SONG IN HIS HEART - (Lyric folk poetry and folksong)
Part 5
13. "BETWIXT TWO HEATHENS." - (The struggle against Turkish aggression and German oppression: the XVth -XVIIIth centuries)
14. THE OTHER HUNGARY - (Transylvania: its settlement, people, customs and folk art)
15. "BEYOND THE BEYOND... - (Folk ballads, tales and legends)
Part 6
16. THE LOST CENTURY - (Hungary's history in the XVIllth century)
17. "IN THE MIDST OF ARMS" - (Hungarian literature and the arts in the XVlth - XVlllth centuries)
18. "HERE YOU MUST LIVE AND DIE..." - (The life, customs and art of the people of the Great Plain)
Part 7
19. REFORMS REVOLUTION REACTION - (Hungary’s history from 1800 to the Freedom War of 1848-49)
20. ROMANTIC RENAISSANCE - (Literature, art and music in the first half of the XIXth century)
21. "SHEPHERDS AND KINGS. - (The Christian inspiration of Hungarian folk poetry)
Part 8
22. GLORY WITHOUT POWER - (Hungarian history from 1849 to 1914)
23. LOVE, LIFE AND LIBERTY - (Hungarian literature between 1848 and 1910)
24. HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY - (Hungarian music from Liszt to Kodaly)
Part 9
25. "ECCE HOMO" - (The Fine Arts in Hungary after 1849)
26. AUSTRIA’S WAR – HUNGARY’S DEFEAT - (Hungary’s history from 1914 to 1930)
27. THE HEART AND THE HEIGHTS - (The settlement, land, art, customs and way of life of the people of Budapest and Northern Hungary)
Part 10
28 "NEW MELODIES OF NEWER YEARS..." - (Hungarian literature during the first decades of the XXth century)
29. NO WAY OUT - (Hungary’s history from the Depression to the end of World War II)
30. "EVERYBODY IS HUNGARIAN... - (Hungarian travellers and settlers in the world)
Part 11
Appendix: Notes, Documentation, Texts in English translation
Bibliography: English language works consulted
Index of names, places and Hungarian terms
List of illustrations
Bodolai Z.: Timeless Nation