Humanist Warfare Ideology in Hungary in the 15-16th Centuries: the „Bastion of Christianity”

Abstract

The 15-16th centuries mark a new era in the Hungarian history, when due to the Western-European ideological and political changes and the Turkish conquest in the Balkans, the Hungarian thinking on the justification of warfare changed. Because of the western humanist political theory, and constant defensive wars against the Turks in the Balkans brought about the appearance of the ideology of the „Bastion of Christianity”. The content of the ideology is that Hungary as a bastion protects the fortress of European Christianity, and its appearance indicates that the position of Hungary radically changed in the European Christianity.