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The Ceremonial Entry of the Emperor Rudolph II to Olomouc in 1577
BURIANOVÁ, Zuzana
The presented thesis deals with the Ceremonial entry of the Emperor Rudolph II to Olomouc in June 1577 and ancient ritual of corporative indulgence, which legitimatized the accession of the ruler to the throne. The authoress wanted to approach the Early modern celebration by methodological concept of symbolic communication whose theoretical data were compiled especially by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger. The thesis is based on scientific approaches of historical anthropology and tries to introspect into the history of mentalities. The authoress analyses the period source whose author was an eyewitness of the whole event. In introduction of this thesis the authoress deals with presentation of methodological resources, literature which was hinge for this thesis, and of used sources. In the sekond chapter there is described the journey of the Emperor Rudolph II to Prague, from there was started the encomiastic wandering through countries of Habsburg Monarchy. The third and the fourth chapter are based on analysis and interpretation of the sources and those chapters are fundamental for this thesis. In the third chapter there is indicated the perception of superiority and power which is reflected in hierarchical organisation of Early modern society. The fourth chapter deals with presentation of Rudolph II by symbols used during his triumphal entry into the city. In conclusion of this thesis the authoress summarizes the results of the research. On the basis of the results she answers the questions which she asked herself while writing this thesis. Festivities were welcomed dulcification of daily life in Early modern period. They had exact given form therefore any disturbance of theirs ritual course was strongly noticed. The authoress finds the conclusion that in the higher Early modern society there played a main role the position and the ceremonial was one of the possibilities how to present that position.

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