The study analyses conflicts, which occurred in the Bohemian and Moravian seigneurial towns in the 16th and early 17th century in connection with funerals of the burghers and other citizens in these towns. In the conflicts, the author applies a thesis by one of the authors of the confessionalization concept according to which the individual confessions paid increased attention to disciplination of religious rituals to strengthen their own inner cohesion and determine themselves against their religious opponents. He interprets the inter-confessional conflicts in the context of individual confessions, which occurred in the multi-confessional milieu of seigneurial towns especially in the last quarter of the 16th and the first two decades of the 17th century. He also follows the gradual politicization of these local conflicts, which the evangelic estates used in their disputes with the Catholic ruler and their application in the contemporary propaganda.
The essay concentrates on re-Catholicization of Bohemian towns in the 1620s. The authors describe the administrative component of a pressure applied to change the confession of predominantly non-Catholic population, particularly administrative processes that acquired significant individual elements over the researched period. The pressure involved registers on the town citizens’ confession, which were used as a source/base for an ensuing re-Catholicization process. The sekond individual element regarded personal negotiations with the still non-Catholic burghers and other citizens, which were managed by various power authorities active in royal or manorial towns.
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.