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The article deals with the history of the Křivoklát estate at the end of the Early Modern Age when new administrative procedures were incorporated into its management. One of them was a bureaucratization of the administrative apparatus of the nobility that put ever-growing demands on both current and newly hired clerks (and also on foresters) when it comes to education and fulfilling of work duties. With the vision of improvement and overall modernization of the estate, control mechanisms were being improved and the employees were also given new existential certainties. All this contributed to the constituting of the clerical staff as a specific socio-professional group that could be relied on not only by the owners of the estate but with respect to delegated competences also by the enlightened state.
Folia historica Bohemica
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2013
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vol. 28
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issue 1
59-103
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Besides construction and external appearance of residences belonging to the important Bohemian noble family of the Waldsteins, the essay comments on their internal arrangements, which reflect the contemporary demands for dwelling and material culture as well as the users’ personal preferences. The palace is thus not approached as an inanimate historical landmark, but as a source of understanding the everydayness of the Waldsteins in the Baroque period. The development of the residential network, together with a personal relationship of the given nobleman to the place, also reflected economical transformations and emergence of consolidated domains or the contemporary aesthetic demands. The limiting factor for development of this network was a constant shortage of funds and a limited number of artists and artisans who were able to satisfy the customer’s high demands. The count’s itinerary, the strangers’ reports and extant accounts and inventories allow reconstruction of the entire network, which reflects the development within the Waldstein family – the municipal palaces, country residences, hunting lodges or areas with the family memory.
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in the 17th and 18th Centuries In the Early Modern Age the legitimacy of monarchy was linked to kings being the chosen ones of God. The unique position of a king in society simultaneously called for the ruler to identify himself with the role of being an imitator of Jesus Christ. Parallels with his life were already expressed during the ruler’s coronation, yet also on the occasion of royal entries to towns, during processions (such as the feast of Corpus Christi) and especially during the period of Easter when the connections between the life and death of Christ; the treatment of consecrated bread (hostia) and the temporarily transformed royal ceremonial can be observed. The author of the study researches these occasions on the example of the 17th and 18th century Austrian Hapsburgs in the context of other European monarchies.
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The study is devoted to the work of Rudolf Vierhaus, which may be divided into four fundamental parts reflecting his historiographical interest (Leopold von Ranke); his theoretical-philosophical interest (history of concepts and ideas), thereafter his interest in modern history (the issue of of a particular German path to modernity, the questions of Nazism and its roots) and primarily the Enlightenment as a cultural-historical process with its distinctive political and social connotations.
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The Old Testament served as an inexhaustible source of models to be reflected by royal representations in the Early Modern Age. Most Old Testament kings were given an archetypal nature, being closely associated with particular characteristics and representing a particular type of behaviour to be followed. Pious David, wise Solomon and the somewhat mysterious Melchizedek, a king and priest all in one, were viewed with particular interest. The relationship between the reigning Habsburg and his Old Testament model was emphasized not only in pictorial art, but also in literature, drama and even Old Testament‑style architecture (with Karlskirche in Vienna representing Solomonʼs Temple). The basis for this royal identification with biblical figures could already be observed in the early Middle Ages, and was only curtailed at the start of the Enlightenment, due to a structural change in the categories associated with royalty and the start of a new way of legitimizing it, resulting either from a change in the monarchʼs self‑conception or under pressure from external attacks by Enlightenment pamphleteers.
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The article discusses the basic approaches to the issue of the early modern court in the context of its long development from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. It presents the methodological approaches and questions that have been resolved by historians of the last few decades and opens up some serious historical problems for the future. These focus in two areas, which can be labelled as “structure” (the static dimension) and “process” (the dynamic dimension). Both levels cooperate with one another and form the overall view of the court as a polysemous phenomenon connecting culture, politics, economy and religion and its central point was the sovereign, or the ruling family.
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