@article{Bak_2006, title={Political Uses of Historical Comparisons: Medieval and Modern Hungary}, volume={23}, url={https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/view/12539}, abstractNote={János Bak offers a sketch of the politically charged deployment in Hungary of medieval and later myths of national historical origin beginning with the anonymous <em>Gesta Hungarorum</em> of c.1200, which traces the Magyars back to Scythia and which was printed and then translated into Hungarian in the eighteenth century during a period of Romantic nationalism. Bak further discusses the late thirteenth-century <em>Gesta</em> of Simon of Kéza, which links the Hungarians to the Huns, as well as the <em>Cronica de introductione Scytarum in Ungariam et Judaeorum de Aegypto</em>, the rhymed Latin chronicle of the sixteenth-century Calvinist minister András Farkas, which draws parallels between Hungary and the Israelites. Bak concludes by turning to the debates among twentieth-century historians concerning the effects of the recent use of such myths for political propaganda.}, number={1}, journal={Florilegium}, author={Bak, János M.}, year={2006}, month={Jan.}, pages={271–279} }