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Through the character of Miklós Zrínyi –and of the defenders of his border fortress –Kálmán Mikszáth’s Új Zrínyiász (The new Zriniad), published in 1898, explores the same subject as the present study. In this vein, both focus on the meaning of the concept of honor changing over time and across historic periods, and both examine and present the concept and interpretation of honor in the nineteenth century. Unlike Kálmán Mikszáth, however, Kelemen Tóth eschews satire and literary imagination and deploys the methods of history of concepts and, to a lesser extent, of the history of mentalities. The question in the crosshairs here is what nineteenth-century people meant by “honour” and whether the texts selected contain detectable changes in these interpretations.