O brněnských rosenkruciánech, dvou kulturách a racionalizaci

• Authors: Tomáš Malý

Title variants

EN

The Brno Rosicrucians, Two Cultures and Rationalization

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In the early 1744, the so called Confraternity of the Star Cross was revealed in Brno. Its members were subjected to interrogations and imprisoned for various periods. An extensive surviving material on the case enables analyses into the individual actors‘ opinions (i.e. the fraternity members, the officials, lawyers, the queen and the church representatives) and a chan of the Star Cross ce to meditate on interpretations of this phenomenon, which mingled magical elements, alchemy, a desire to understand the secret of the nature, Christian rituals as well as certain „all-remedial“ ideas. In this article, I attempt to place this issue within the context of historical-sociological research on rationalization, disenchantment and secularization and show applicability of the given terms in similar research.

Keywords

EN

Rosicrucians; Enlightenment; rationalization; disenchantment; secularization; Brno

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Folia historica Bohemica
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 291-305

Contributors

author

Tomáš Malý

• Historický ústav, Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Solniční 12, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic