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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Hungarian apocalypse, biblical texts, Latin, biblical translation

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics and English Language

Abstract

The fifteenth century was an important time in the development of the Hungarian nation and the Hungarian language. Despite a war with both the Turks and the Austrians, Hungarian culture was undergoing a flowering in the independent principality of Transylvania. This was linked largely to the introduction of printing from Germany. For the first time Hungarian texts could be disseminated widely to a populace that had never seen vernacular literature before. Particularly important in this blossoming was the publication of biblical translations, translations that the Reformers thought would put God into the hands of the people and take away Rome’s doctrinal power.

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