The book is the summation of the author's fifty years of work.

In Judit Józsa's Gallery (Budapest, V. Városház u.1.) on September 12, 2024 at 6 p.m., Zsolt Zétényi's summary work entitled "Book of the Holy Crown" will be presented.

What is the book about?

According to the author's intentions and knowledge, it includes all the current standard knowledge about the Holy Crown that is worth knowing. It can also be used as a manual based on its detailed table of contents and index.

Who is the book for?

For all scribes, from elementary students to scientists...

The author's first book on the Holy Crown was published in 1997 at Püski with the title "The Meaning of the Idea of ​​the Holy Crown", and the current, the last book, published for Christmas, is of a summary and culminating nature. The contents and messages of the author's series of lectures held at the Józsa Judit Gallery, which were accompanied by great interest, must have resonated with the students of that time...

The author writes about his book:

"This book is an expanded, revised version of my long-out-of-print book published in 1997, so it's old and new at the same time. It is about the Holy Crown of Hungary, the events, facts and thoughts that are worth knowing about this enduring value and secret of the Hungarian spirit...

My goal and task then, in 1997, and still now - after thirty years of testing the nation and ultimately strengthening the nation and with the lessons learned - is to make accessible the old valuable texts and the thoughts of old authors related to the Holy Crown and the historical constitution defined by it in a single book. , and, as far as necessary, my own as well, so that the living Hungarian antiquity is authentically shown when viewed together with the present public law. My goal is to obtain more easily searchable excerpts from the essential elements of a library's worth of inaccessible works, as well as the old components of our constitutional law approach today, which, together with the historical and public law experience accumulated in the meantime, can provide the content of the modern meaning of the Holy Crown idea, which is constantly being honed, unfolding from the mists of antiquity....

The Holy Crown simultaneously represents Hungarian history, as well as the Hungarian perception of right and good power and many secrets. It is a prominent part of the community consciousness and the mass psychological sociological phenomenon that we call it. But it is not only the community consciousness, which is growing stronger nowadays, but is still quite battered and disabled, but also a serious element of the community unconscious, the collective unconscious in which the archetypes and archetypes of the community are hidden, as the great soul diver of the 20th century, Jung also established. It is the embodiment of the community past, an element of the present community state and part of the plan for the future, what is more, it is also a tool for it. It is an intellectual value that expresses destiny, embodies destiny, preserves the community, strengthens it, and builds the future. ... For thirty years, I have developed the conviction that an accurate, at least partial description of the texts of old and new authors is essential for the reader to feel the essence of the Holy Crown's thinking. It is indisputable that the related collections of laws and explanations form part of the historical constitution, from István Werbőczy's collection of customary law in 1514, the Tripartite, to Móric Tomcsányi's constitutional law textbook published in 1943, and even further to the present day. That is why, among many other things, my book is also a collection of text fragments.

There are many questions waiting to be answered, and I am looking for answers from credible sources and myself:

  • What do we know about the origin of the Holy Crown? How and in what workshop was it created, made as a unified structure or later combined, and when, and what are the conclusions and meanings that can be drawn from its objective reality?
  • What do we know about coronations and the migrations of the Holy Crown?
  • How do we see the holy crown doctrine today?
  • Are we dealing with teaching that is effective and alive, alive and life-giving in our current life conditions? • Does it have public law significance and character?
  • What are the characteristic stages of the development of the doctrine of the Holy Crown? • What are its constant and variable elements?
  • What changes in meaning has it undergone?
  • Which conceptual elements necessarily exist, and which carry changes in emphasis?
  • What principles follow from the concept or are closely related to it?
  • What is the relationship between the doctrine of the holy crown and the historical Hungarian constitution?
  • What is the relationship between the doctrine of the holy crown and legitimacy?"

 

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