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Testaments of Bohemian Noblewomen in the Period from 1650 to 1753. Gender and the Legitimization Strategy of the Nobility within the Early Modern testamentary Discours
SWIDEROVÁ, Kristina
The thesis Testaments of Bohemian Noblewomen in the Period from 1650 to 1753. Gender and the Legitimization Strategy of the Nobility within the Early Modern testamentary Discours is based on the set of accounts left by noblewomen, and tries to find out the role of gender and the meaning of piety within the testamentary field. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis confronted with prescriptive document´s point of view, it examines the testamentary field at three different levels. First of all, it focuses on the contemporary legal status of women. Secondly it deals with the formal structure and terms of last wills, such as property settlement, which is usually the main reason for testaments being composed. But the emphasis is laid on the testamentary piety, which is perceived among others as a means of the legitimization of the nobility itself, for which the process of the adjustments before death was well suited. The thesis is complemented by a standalone chapter researching codicils, documents supplementing or altering original settlements for the case of death. The comparison of their mutual content with last wills reveals real religious feelings, which are otherwise disguised by the emphasis laid on the formality of the testament{\crq}s text. The main goal of the research is to help in the understanding of creation and manifestation of gender roles in different areas of early modern society´s lifestyles as well as to contribute to the recognition of the changes that, at latest by the beginning of 19th century, led to general secularization of the religious practices.
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Nobleman and Hunting
HOLCEPL, Radek
The study of noble hunting phenomenon confirms that game keeping did not represent only entertainment for aristocracy but performed much more functions in the process of constituting the collective mentality of aristocracy. Taking the width and depth of motivation into account it turned out completely inadequate to consider hunting a mere sort of sport activities of aristocrats. This diploma paper presents the analysis of intricate relationships between the noble world-view and the world of hunting. It offers the outline of origins and forms of the aristocratic thinking about hunting, which contributed to the preservation of the nobleness tradition under Franz Joseph I. It is done with the emphasis put on the Czech aristocrats, especially the Schwarzenberg family. From different points of view the respective chapters examine different elements and layers of the ideology underlying the noble game-keeping that made up a significant constituent of the "other reality", into which the aristocracy confined themselves in the era of citizenship.
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The wedding of Adam of Schwarzenberg and Margareta of Pallant in 1613
MICHŇOVÁ, Nikola
The central topic of the presented bachelor theses is the wedding of Adam of Schwarzenberg and Margareta of Pallant. The main attention has been paid to the wedding celebration crowned with a magnificent feast as an important means of representation of the newly wedded couple. The main aim of the theses was to reconstruct the wedding celebration and to interpret its symbolic significance. The these also focus on the catering for the wedding, the equipment and decoration of the banquetting halls as well as of the kitchen area and on the variety of the meals that appeared on the wedding menu. Furthermore, the theses pay attention to the servants and kitchen staff who were involved in the preparation and in the whole process of the celebration as were as to the noble guests who also took part in the wedding. The presence of such guests played an important role in the self-presentation of the newly wedded couple as it expressed its social status in the similar way as the wedding feast. The material culture of the wedding celebration as well as the composition of the wedding menu crowned with an impressive wedding cake had their symbolic significance that reflected the ways of thinking and the values and beliefs of the early modern society.
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Magic world. The territory, time and people of the story of childhood in the family of Prince Johann Schönburg-Hartenstein
POLÁČEK, Vít
Italian writer and nobleman Giuseppe di Lampedusa wrote significantly in his memoirs, that he wanted to describe the space of his childhood and people of which he was surrounded. How would the territory, time and people look like in the stories of eight children of last Austro-Hungarian ambassador by the Holy See, the prince Johann Schönburg-Hartenstein? What places formed their view of the world? How did their time flow? What people influenced them and what kinds of education methods were used in an aristocratic family on the end of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century? This thesis is attempting on untraditional view on history of childhood in aristocracy through the point of view of their children. There are used various sources like memoirs, correspondence, but also childish drawings or narration of the youngest daughter of Prince Johann Schönburg-Hartenstein, Sophie Carillo. For the education of noble children, there was typical to live in history, the care of tutors and governesses, bringing up to duties, the veneration of old traditions or periodical travelling. The thesis is using the knowledge of psychology for the reconstruction of motivations, relationships between brothers and sister, but also directly each person in the family, their dream worlds and games?
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Courtly and moralistic literature and Spanish aristocratic society of the Golden Age
ELEXHAUSEROVÁ, Jana
The major theme of this thesis is {\clq}qCourtly and moralistic literature and Spanish aristocratic society of the Golden Age``. The goal is to portray european courtly-moral literature, which described aristocratic society of 16th and 17th century. Thesis is devided into six chapters, each presents one of the essential works of art which have influenced the behaviour of the society of the court and which have contributed to the mentality changes of the noble class. The reader thus gains not only a comprehensive picture of Spanish courtly literature and culture of the Golden Age, but of the Spanish courtly society as a whole.
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Schwarzenbergs and the railway. Relationship primogeniture Schwarzenberg to rail transport in the 19th century.
IVANOV, Jan
Railway and nobility - at first glance the opposite sides of one coin. The aristocracy was considered conservative part of society, as a symbol of "the old times". Railway presented the other side of the coin: ?the new age? and economical progress. What was the same on these two symbols? Why nobility supported the build of railroads through their domain? How was the role of Nobles in the construction of railroads? The point of view of this publication is at the history of railways in terms of Nobles as the businessmen. Shows an example of primogeniture Schwarzenberg, how aristocrats engage themselves in the construction of railways, railway companies in the management and support local projects. You can find here examples of the nobility built industrial railroad for their business. The work shows that the nobility to maintain its economic power after the abolition of feudalism had to adopt modern capitalism and the development of rail transport.
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Matrimony strategies of the Czech aristocracy in the pre-White Mountain period
TARANTOVÁ, Kateřina
The goal of this diploma thesis, Marriage Strategies of the Czech Aristocracy in the Pre-White Mountain Period, is to introduce strategies, which the members of aristocracy, especially the high nobility, exploited in the period before the battle of White Mountain. The choice of partner is understood in this context as a means of self-presentation of an individual and his or her family, and as symbol of the aristocracy's identity in the early modern period. This diploma thesis is based on a database of marriages of Czech aristocrats between 1500 and 1650, utilising available literature and published sources. The thesis analyses these known facts and observes how the above mentioned strategies differed in dependence on the social and property status of the family. Firstly, the requirements when choosing a partner related to social aspects: for example the social group of the bridesroom and bride; whether their marriage was within their social group, or if marriages between a man from knighthood and woman from nobility and vice versa were common; whether brothers and sisters married partners from the same social group or first-borns married partners from higher social groups than their younger siblings, or vice versa. Secondly, there are geographical aspects: for example the region from which men chose their brides; and whether they preferred women of Czech or foreign origin. Finally, the role of religion will be discussed, to determine whether it was a crucial factor when choosing a partner, and whether marriages of people of different beliefs were possible.
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Duels in Bohemia in Early Modern Period
ŠÁRO, Ondřej
The thesis focuses on the problems of Early Modern Period duels concentrating on aristocratic milieu in Bohemia. The thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the problems based on up to now findings especially foreign historical science. A necessary part is the evaluation of the existing literature on up-to-date subject, brief introduction of the methodological approach and an outline of the possible thematic areas. In association with the thematic areas, it is possible to pay attention to the problems of duels. In this Chapter is also a detailed introduction to the chosen methodological solution {--} historical-anthropological draft of honour in the Early Modern Period. The Early Modern Period is based on many categories as e.g. inward and outward honour, honour of a male and a female or individual and collective honour. Chapter 2 puts the Early Modern Period in a spatiotemporal context and tries to introduce not only the predecessor in the way of medieval court duels, aristocratic hate perhaps even knightly tournaments but also his successors in the way of strictly ritualistic duels of the long 19th century. A special attention is paid to an analysis of duel books of references of the 19th century, which is supposed to serve as a solution for the third chapter. Chapter 3 is a personal analysis of the Early Modern Period considering all possible aspects which are possible to be discovered in the context. Attention is paid to all possible reasons of the beginning of the Early Modern Period duels, direct and indirect participants, circumstances which accompanied the Early Modern Period as well as potential results for all parties concerned. The Early Modern duel should be roughly outlined as an original development in the history of duels in terms of untold references in the source of personal nature and personal research. The same emphasis is put in the involvement of a duel as a indivisible part of the intellectual world of the Early Modern period of a human being with a special consideration to the milieu of the noble people. The aim of the thesis is to prove the peculiarity of the Early Modern Period duel and to refer to the characteristic place in the inward world of the then noble rank as well as other ranks of the society.
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A picture of building activity of a noble family in the age of historicism.
KUČERA, Petr
This graduation theses deals with the conditions of reconstruction of the Krivoklat castle by the noble family of the Fürstenbergs. Their reconstruction activities are viewed according to the temporal way of thinking of the historical noble families and common attitude to architecture and rising movement of care of historical monuments in the 19th century. The castle plays the role of the Fürstenbergs possession and the other society changed according to the raising of nationalistic moods and the great personalities of the community. Another important part of this work is a survey of the architects who changed the appearance of the castle, particularly J. B. Urban who was the chief of Fürstenberg´s building section. His memories serves as a worth source of information.
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An aristocratic art patronage in the second half of the 19th century (Aristocracy in the Association of fine arts and the Society of the patriotic friends of arts)
ROTREKL, Jan
The dissertation inquires into the participation of the historic aristocracy in the agency of the Society of the patriotic friends of arts and the Association of fine arts. On the basis of an analysis of the annual reports of both of the institutions a survey of selected aristocratic contributors and donators of works of art will be made. In addition to this, the dissertation focuses on several of the more or less noted aristocratic members of the named institutions. In this respect a form of their interest in collecting of artworks and in art patronage, shortly {--} in their virtu, will also be partly dealt with. As an introduction to the subject the survey is preceded by a text dealing with even earlier activities concerning art patronage and art collections that occured in the region of the Czech kingdom and also the Margraviate of Moravia.
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