Paternal instruction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Inter-texts of identity 1
5. Introduction
6. The Enlightenment in Central Europe? 33
7. The Enlightenment in Southeast Europe: Introductory considerations 45
8. Chapter I. The Transformation of Symbolic Geography
9. The customs of the Morlachs 57
10. Apology 65
11. Novel geography 73
12. Sketch of Vienna 80
13. On the statistics of Poland 86
14. Concerning the constant and enduring allegiance of the Slav peoples to the House of Austria 97
15. Account of my journey 104
16. Characteristics of the Serbian people 112
17. The truth on Albania and Albanians 118
18. Chapter II. Cultural and Historiographical Narratives of Identity
19. On the love of Fatherland 127
20. Some words, alphabetically ordered 132
21. Dąbrowski Mazurka 137
22. Report on the present state of civilization in Greece 141
23. Oration on the subject-matter of the country 148
24. The Slovak nation 155
25. Ode to John Žižka of Trocnov 162
26. The history of Romanian beginnings in Dacia 169
27. The Gypsy epic 177
28. Letter to Georgi Zolotovich 182
29. Odes 188
30. Chapter III. Creating an Enlightened National Public
31. Observations on Austria’s Enlightenment and literature 197
32. Apology of the Czech language 202
33. Advice to the youth 210
34. Letter to Haralampije 218
35. A dictionary of the Illyrian, Italian, and German languages 223
36. The refinement of the nation 231
37. Concerning the relations between the two peoples of Bohemia 237
38. Bulgarian grammar 246
39. Thoughts about the Bulgarian language 252
40. A preface to young Albanian boys 258
41. Chapter IV. Reform and Revolution: Formatting the Enlightened Polity
42. Joseph II’s Prayer-Book 265
43. Letter to Miklós Forgách 270
44. Supplex Libellus Valachorum 276
45. The Targowica Confederation 282
46. Połaniec Manifesto 286
47. Hymn 293
48. New political constitution 297
49. Paternal instruction 304
50. Patriotic musings 312
51. Letter to Petar Petrović Njegoš 319
52. Important treatise 324
53. The Gülhane Edict 332
54. Wishes and pleas of Christians in Bosnia to Sultan Abdülmecid 340
55. Program of the Albanian League of Prizren 347