Pártütő volt-e Zrínyi Miklós (a költő)?
Was Miklós Zrínyi, the Poet, a Rebel?

Summary/Abstract: In the documents we have access to today – i.e. Zrínyi’s own works, his letters, and the contemporary documents – do not present any traces of rebellious political attitudes or Zrínyi’s support for any rebellious political movement. Instead of ‘rebellio’, he always uses the word ‘reformatio’: the renewal of the milirary and society, unity instead of dissesion, serving the interests of the bonum publicum instead of the privatum, and heroic virtue and self-sacrifice instead of otium. His wide interests in the domain of political theory have crystallized around ideologies such as Machiavellianism and French absolutism. Military reasons have also made him a devotee of order, discipline, social stability, and legality. Nevertheless, an interesting characteristic of his devotion for order is that its goal is not peace, but war.

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