Tudós társaságok szerepe a 18. század végi, 19. század eleji kulturális transzferben (avagy Árkádia-körök, szabadkőművesek és népmesék diszkrét összjátéka)

Abstract

At the end of the 18th century, the gates of Europe opened up and offered new ways and opportunities to those who wanted to get to know the culture: significant pilgrimage routes led both north-west and south, thanks to which dozens of students got to know new cultural and philosophical phenomena, such as Freemasonry, Arcadian-circles, the development of indigenous literature, or the collection of folk tales, the promotion of folk culture into discourse. In my presentation, I will present a micro-example, through the scientific and cultural transfers of the city of Eger, how the currents of ideas coming from outside influenced the life of a patron, Károly Eszterházy, the structure and the curriculum of a university, the cultural life of the city, and based on these, what traces can be observed in the literary life that is currently being redefined, in our linguistic and literary conceptual system (mainly thanks to Sámuel Pápay’s literary work), or in the creation of new mythologies – closely related to folk tales.