The Hungarian Theory of Just War Based on the Idea of the Holy Crown

Abstract

Warfare ideologies are as old as human civilization. By now, theyhave grown into an important and extended researchfield, including works analyzing the justification of war in ancientIndian epic literature, empire-building techniques in Chineseantiquity, and the warfare ideologies of Islam or Buddhism in SriLanka. Similar works concerning Hungarian historical ideologiesexist, but a comprehensive survey remains to be seen. In thisarticle, I present a special Hungarian warfare ideology which isbased on the idea of the Holy Crown, with the help of theconcepts of just war theory. Thereby, I throw light on a particularway in which just war thinking has been used and developed inEurope.