Gelehrsamkeit und Geschichtskultur des brüderischen Adels in Mähren um 1600 : Karl der Ältere von Žerotín und seine Bibliothek
| Title in English | Scholarship and Historical Culture of the Fraternal Nobility in Moravia around 1600 : Charles the Elder of Žerotín and his library |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Konfessionelle Geschichtsschreibung im Umfeld der Böhmischen Brüder (1500–1800) : Traditionen – Akteure – Praktiken |
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| Keywords | church historiography; Unity of the Brethren; evangelical churches; library; nobility; Karl the Elder of Žerotín |
| Description | The present study is devoted to questions concerning the state of historiography of the Bohemian Brethren in the period around 1600, i.e. in the era of the unfolding of the Unitas Fratrum immediately before the Battle of White Mountain near Prague in 1620. As far as the emergence of historiographical treatises within the Unity of the Brethren and their presentation by outside historians is concerned, research is still largely in its infancy. The following contribution, however, will not be primarily concerned with individual authors of such works or with the results of their work. Rather, the main focus of the case study is an attempt to analyse and reconstruct the historical themes with which the Moravian nobleman Charles the Elder of Žerotín (1564-1636), an aristocrat closely connected to the Brotherhood through his faith, education and social contacts, occupied himself while reading the books collected in his library. We will ask how the development of the Brotherhood was connected with the history of the Margraviate of Moravia and that of the Žerotín family. Furthermore, we will ask what image of the surrounding environment and its historicity the Moravian aristocrat was able to create for himself and whether this image influenced his daily actions. The methods of recent reading research1 and approaches from cultural history, the history of mentality and elite research will be used. |