Španělská strana na císařském dvoře? K problematice jednoho pojmu z politických dějin

• Authors: Pavel Marek

Title variants

EN

The Spanish Faction at the Imperial Court? On the Issues relating to One Concept from Political History

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study submitted here has to be understood as a contribution to the ongoing discussion devoted to the role of court parties in the Early Modern Age. Its centre of focus is a power grouping which the historians usually refer to as the Spanish Party/Faction at the Imperial Court. The author deals with the frequency of these terms (including their various language mutations) in contemporary sources and in current historical literature. Applying an analysis of informal links which tied Central European noblemen to the institution of the Spanish Embassy at the Imperial Court in the 16th century and in the first half of the 17th century, he then attempts to answer questions such as what the so-called Spanish Party/Faction was; whether there was a disparity in the understanding of the terms Party and Faction and to what degree these terms correspond to the designation of the relationship network.

Keywords

EN

the Spanish Party/Faction; informal power groupings; networks; political communication; the Imperial Court; the Spanish Embassy; the Hispanic Monarchy; 16th–17th centuries; diplomacy

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 113
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 965-988

Contributors

author

Pavel Marek

• Univerzita Pardubice, Fakulta filozofická, Ústav historických věd Studentská 84, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic