"(…) a tak Její Veličenstvo nejmilostivěji nařizuje, aby byl také tento nešvar odstraněn". Císařovna Marie Terezie jako patronka Tereziánského ústavu šlechtičen v Praze:

• Authors: Michaela Žáková

Title variants

EN

“(…) and thus her Majesty most graciously orders this malady to be eradicated as well”. The Empress Maria Theresa as a patroness of the Theresian foundation for noblewomen in Prague:

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study analyzes activities of Maria Theresa as the foundress and patroness of the Theresian Foundation for Noblewomen at Prague Castle. The Foundation was established in 1755 and served as a prominent care giving institution for unmarried women from noble families. Attention is paid for instance to the issue of patrons’ motivation, the way individual members of the Foundation were chosen as well as to individual factors that influenced the granting of the Empress’s support. Furthermore, particular forms of Maria Theresa’s patronage activities connected with the everyday functioning of the Foundation are observed – especially the ways of communication with the leading representatives, the development of personal ties with the members of the socalled body of superior ladies, as well as forms of active involvement in the routine functioning of the Foundation through issuance of new directives to which the Empress resorted in reaction to repeated breaches of current regulations. The study also focuses on the figure of the first abbess of the Foundation at Hradčany, the Empress’s eldest daughter Archduchess Marie Anna (1738-1789).

Keywords

EN

the Theresian Foundation for Noblewomen; the history of the nobility; Maria Theresa; the Prague Castle; institutions for noblewomen

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Folia historica Bohemica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 109-141
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Michaela Žáková

• Folia historica Bohemica, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic

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Daniela Reischlová

• Folia historica Bohemica, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic