Nemoci, smrt a pohřby Rudolfa II.

• Authors: Václav Bůžek , Pavel Marek

Title variants

EN

The Illnesses, Death and Funerals of Rudolph II.

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study, based, in particular, on reports, until now unused in research, from foreign envoys to the Imperial Court; the Hapsburgs’family correspondence, the post-mortem report, deals with the course of the illnesses of Rudolph II., his death and funeral ceremonies in Madrid and Prague. In connection with the spread of the reports of the death of the Central European ruler during the year of 1612, the authors have attempted to gain an insight into the contents and means of communication at the Imperial Court in Prague. They have not failed to pay attention to the activities of influential courtiers and their intelligence networks. At the same time they traced the communication routes between Prague, Antwerp, Brussels, Florence, Madrid, Nuremberg and Rome along which the information about the death of Rudolph II and preparations for his funeral spread. The focus of this study lies in the interpretation of the symbolic importance of the social body of the deceased Emperor. From the lying-in-state of the corpse to the requiem mass, he was entering the collective memory as a virtuous ruler, a Christian knight and a defender of the Catholic faith, like his famous ancestors of the Hapsburg dynasty.

Keywords

EN

the Hapsburg dynasty; Rudolph II.; Prague; Madrid; the Imperial Court; illness; death; funerals; castrum doloris; symbolic communication; the memory of the social body

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-30

Contributors

author

Václav Bůžek

• Historický ústav, Filozofická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, Branišovská 31a, 370 05 České Budějovice,Czech Republic

author

Pavel Marek

• Ústav romanistiky, Filozofická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, Branišovská 31a, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic