Bohemian and Moravian Aristocracy and Military Service in the Habsburg Army, 1650 - 1750
Provider: Grantová agentura ČR
Programme: Postdoktorské projekty (řešení od 1.1.2014)
Implementation period: 01.01.14 - 31.12.16
Workplace:
Fakulta filozofická - Ústav historických věd
Investigator: Prchal Vítězslav
Description:
Modern historians accept the regular and professional armies for one of the most important attributes of early modern state. Moreover, the imperial army used to constitute one of the elementary features shared within the multi-national state of the Habsburg monarchy. However, surprisingly, we still miss systematical research that would connect the changes in the warfare of those times with the history of early modern aristocracy (the other ?pillar? of the monarchy) in the Czech historiography. The research will focus on: A) the ways the aristocracy from the Czech lands tried to get used to the development of the then warfare and to the tendencies of the new warcraft that should weaken their previous dominant position on the battlefield; B) the importance of the military service in the regular state army in the frame of aristocratic career strategies. There are two main goals of the project: a) publishing several articles to the topic; 2) a manuscript of a scientific monograph and an agreement with a publishing house on the publishing of the monograph.
Modern historians accept the regular and professional armies for one of the most important attributes of early modern state. Moreover, the imperial army used to constitute one of the elementary features shared within the multi-national state of the Habsburg monarchy. However, surprisingly, we still miss systematical research that would connect the changes in the warfare of those times with the history of early modern aristocracy (the other ?pillar? of the monarchy) in the Czech historiography. The research will focus on: A) the ways the aristocracy from the Czech lands tried to get used to the development of the then warfare and to the tendencies of the new warcraft that should weaken their previous dominant position on the battlefield; B) the importance of the military service in the regular state army in the frame of aristocratic career strategies. There are two main goals of the project: a) publishing several articles to the topic; 2) a manuscript of a scientific monograph and an agreement with a publishing house on the publishing of the monograph.
