Confessionnal frontiers: problems and possibilities in the sacral art and architecture across the regions of Habsburg monarchy around 1800
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The conference paper aims to present the issue of defining architectural, confessional and regional identity in the period around 1800 on selected sacral buildings of Moravia and Austrian Silesia. Absolutist-centralizing efforts after 1780 were aimed at linguistic, bureaucratic, artistic and other unification of the countries of the Danube Habsburg monarchy, so the ambition was to create a large space of one nation (not in the sense of romantic nationalism, but rather political utilitarianism).In addition to this effort, however, there are also completely different frontiers, created on the basis of confessional mobility and closely related to the definition of confessional identity, which crosses the borders of regions (individual countries of the Habsburg Monarchy) as well as larger territorial units (states). How specifically did the architectural style of the parish churches of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the prayer houses of the Protestant churches, be able to express this identity in the atmosphere of utilitarian centralization ambitions around 1800? To what extent has the art form erased geographical frontiers to express confessional frontiers within a state, municipality, or even a single Christian community? |
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