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Using the example of several (South) Bohemian sites, this study raises the question of whether enlightenment interference in popular religiosity was a new and different type of regulation of popular religious practice to that predating 1750. In canonical visitations in particular the author observes both the endeavours of priests to effect a prohibition or eradication of individual religious customs and traditional local practices, described most frequently as „abuses“ („Missbrauch“, „abusus“). Th e article then focuses on the eff ects of two reforms in the latter half of the 18th century: the reduction in the number of religious hollydays in 1753/54 and the prohibition of bell-ringing to ward off storms and dark clouds in 1783. These reforms took place on a nationwide basis, borne along by ideas of (economic) effi ciency, utilitarianism and protection of the population. Failure to respect these prohibitions was an off ence and so the lower municipal and seignorial authorities classifi ed such behaviour as „irrational“ and „prejudices“, thereby reducing the potential guilt of their subjects. Both before and after 1750, these subjects generally refused to give way to the collective demand for the disposal of funds and mediation of salvation and holiness; the traditional method of protecting crops from bad weather with bells was evidently of such importance to them that they were willing to risk repeated prosecutions. Hence enlightenment reforms of popular religiosity came up against obvious limitations at least up to the end of the 18th century.
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Na příkladu několika (jiho)českých lokalit si studie klade otázku, zda osvícenské zásahy do lidové religiozity představovaly odlišný, nový typ regulace lidové náboženské praxe než ty před rokem 1750. Zejména v kanonických vizitacích sleduje autor jednak snahu farářů dosáhnout zákazu či vykořenění jednotlivých religiózních zvyků a místních tradičních praxí, označovaných nejčastěji jako „nešvar“ („Missbrauch“, „abusus“). V druhé polovině 18. století se pak článek soustřeďuje na dopady dvou reforem, redukce svátků v letech 1753/54 a zákazu zvonění na mračna/proti bouřkám z roku 1783. Tyto reformy měly celozemský rámec a byly neseny ideami (hospodářské) efektivity a užitečnosti, resp. ochrany obyvatelstva. Nedodržování těchto zákazů bylo deliktem, proto zejm. nižší, městské a vrchnostenské úřady klasifikovaly toto jednání jako „neracionální“ „předsudky“, čímž snižovaly potenciální vinu poddaných. Poddaní se obecně, před rokem 1750 i po něm, odmítali vzdát kolektivního nároku na dispozici s prostředky a zprostředkovateli spásy/posvátna; tradiční způsob ochrany úrody před nečasem pomocí zvonů pro ně měl zřejmě takovou důležitost, že byli ochotni riskovat opakované postihy. Osvícenské reformy lidové religiozity tak přinejmenším do konce 18. století narážely na zřetelné limity.
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The article is concerned with the persecution of Gypsies in Bohemia in the first third ofthe 18th century. As in other European countries, in cases where Gypsies had been already formally expelled from a land, Gypsy vagabondage was defined and punished as a capital crime. The article does not forget this normative aspect ofthe theme, but it nonetheless concentrates on the actual practice of persecution and above all on cases in which condemned Gypsies begged for mercy and their death penalty was in fact reduced to a more moderate punishment. The author also looks at the extensive powers of reprieve that the Prague Appellate Court (in the case ofGypsy vagabondage the tribunal offirst instance), was granted by the ruler in the 1720s. Condemned Gypsies were not explicitly mentioned in this context, but there is plenty of evidence that they were not excluded from this practice ofreprieve. The article criticises the view ofthe persecution ofGypsies that is based solely on the quantification ofincomplete data in the manuals of condemnation ofthe Appellate Court. These books not only fail to indicate when the condemned were later reprieved, but also do not allow us to reliably identify individuals condemned. There are examples of one person appearing several times in them, sometimes under different names. It is this misleading quantified evidence that has helped give rise to the idea that the persecution of Gypsies in the early modern period was the first stage of the Gypsy Holocaust in the 20th century. The article argues, on the contrary, that in relation to persecution the pre-modern differed from the modern state not only in terms of capacity, but fundamentally.
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