Zrínyi’s view of Heroism in the Mirror of the Changing Faces of Military Heroism

Abstract

The concepts of hero and heroism accompany the history of humanity. These concepts may be constant properties and changing characteristics as well. This paper traces the changing faces of heroism from Antiquity up to the recent times, and illustrates the different concepts with historical and other examples. The last chapter of the paper comes to the analysis of the specific heroism concept of Miklós Zrínyi.