The main subject of the diploma thesis is the view of the war and the military through the early modern opinions of lower nobles, especially by Henry Hýzrl from the Chod (1575- 1665) and Sigmund Chotek of Chotkov (1521-1603). The time frame is set from the 16. to 17. century. Views on contemporary defence of the country are reconstructed on the basis of previously unreleased military debate which is titled Kriegsdiscurs über der hochlöblichen Cron Bohemia Landtdefension by Henry Hýzrl from the Chod. This debate is partly accessible in academic edition at the end of the thesis. The next source, for understanding the intellectual world of the Czech nobility during the wars with the Turks, is military instruction by Sigmund Chotek of Chotkov. The work is based on military debate by Henry Hýzrl from Chod. It is a completely unique view of the war through the view of the Bohemian nobleman.

This dissertation explores the correlation between British colonial experiences in Ireland and India c. 1650 - 1800. While the traditional characterisation of Ireland as a settlement colony and India as primarily a mercantile colony would suggest diverse imperial encounters, a comparative analysis of the two shows significant similarities. Temporal and/or geographical distances notwithstanding, the study's thematic approach reveals recurring patterns regarding the relationships between colonisers and the colonised. The six chapters of this dissertation explore different elements of empire, concluding that comparable socio-political and agrarian principles were consistently implemented in both colonies. The first chapter explores history writing as a tool of historical appropriation and indigenous reconfiguration. The second looks at escalating legal responses to colonial violence and colonial jurisdiction's role in defining social norms; the third considers the evolving forms of punishment dealt to 'deviant' colonial subjects. The fourth chapter looks at similar processes of agrarian reconfiguration that revealed broader imperial attitudes towards landownership and the fifth one elaborates on the use of visual representations of empire as propaganda tools to shape public opinion. In the final chapter, selected experiences of the Irish in India illustrate examples of colonial subjects' collaboration in imperial expansion. By adopting a more heuristic and thematic approach to colonial experiences, this study adds to the growing literature that necessarily complicates the distinctions between metropole and periphery. It challenges the use of single points of reference which have routinely privileged the accounts and experiences of Britons in the scholarly analysis of cross-cultural and imperial interactions. Blending early modern and nineteenth-century experiences with regional and global history, the chapters address the history of emotions, law, material culture, economy, and politics to argue that processes of influence and transformation were indicative of a more layered and evolutionary development in response to colonial challenges. Such experimental approaches provide a more sustained understanding of the processes of continuity and change in Britain's imperial evolution.

La plaine du Sous, au cœur de laquelle est implantée la ville de Taroudant, est une grande plaine alluviale du Sud-ouest marocain. Les sources historiques témoignent de la richesse agricole de cette région, dont le contrôle a représenté un enjeu stratégique pour les pouvoirs centraux successifs tout au long des périodes médiévale et moderne. Elle offre ainsi l’opportunité d’examiner l’occupation d’un territoire entre centres de pouvoir, grands programmes d’aménagement, fortifications et établissements ruraux. Encadrée par les chaînes montagneuses du Haut Atlas et de l’Anti-Atlas, elle constitue également un espace privilégié pour analyser les liens entre zones de plaine et secteurs de piémont. Cette thèse propose ainsi d’examiner l’évolution du peuplement de la plaine et des piémonts adjacents, autour de la capitale Taroudant, du début de l’époque médiévale au début de l’époque moderne (VIIIe-début du XVIIe siècle). Fondée sur une enquête de terrain, cette étude s’appuie sur un corpus de sites archéologiques en grande partie inédit. L’analyse des modes de construction, des structures, et du mobilier de surface a permis de préciser les caractéristiques de la culture matérielle de la région. L’organisation et l’implantation des sites ont également été examinées afin de comprendre les modalités d’installation des populations et leur évolution sur l’ensemble de la période concernée. La ville de Taroudant a par ailleurs fait l’objet d’une analyse spécifique pour cerner l’évolution du centre urbain et son insertion dans un territoire à forte dominante agricole. Enfin, l’ensemble de ces données a été mis en perspective afin de proposer une analyse diachronique du peuplement de la région. / The Sous plain, in the heart of which the city of Taroudant is settled, is a large alluvial plain in south-west Morocco. Historical sources attest to the agricultural wealth of this region, whose control has been a strategic issue for successive central governments throughout the medieval and modern periods. It thus offers the opportunity to consider the occupation of territory between power centers, major development programs, fortifications and rural settlements. Surrounded by the mountain ranges of the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas, it is also a privileged space to analyze the connections between lowlands and foothills areas. This thesis proposes to examine the evolution of settlement in the plain and adjacent foothills, around the capital Taroudant, from early medieval times to early modern period (VIIIth-early XVIIth century). This study is based on fieldworks, and on a corpus of archaeological sites, which are new for the most of them. The analysis of modes of construction, structures, and surface material allowed to specify the characteristics of the material culture of the region. The organization and location of these sites were examined as well in order to highlight settlement forms and their evolution throughout the period. A specific analysis has also been carried out on the capital city, Taroudant, for identifying changes in the urban center and its insertion in an area dominated by agriculture. Finally, all of these data have been put in perspective to offer a diachronic analysis of the settlement in this region.

Propôs-se investigar nesta pesquisa de que modo os autores europeus no período moderno conceituaram e representaram o harém islâmico. Para tanto, foi examinado um conjunto de narrativas de viagem produzidas entre os fins do século XVI e o século XVIII, além de dicionários e enciclopédias da mesma época. Aquelas eram resultado das viagens de europeus com perfis e projetos distintos para o Império Otomano, para a Pérsia e para o Norte da África, cujos relatos foram publicados originalmente em língua inglesa e francesa. Dentre os dezesseis relatos de viagem principais analisados aqui, o último deles, publicado em 1791, descrevia a experiência de um médico inglês em dois haréns do Reino de Marrocos. Diante disso, o debate sobre os pressupostos médicos europeus em contato com as práticas médicas mouras recebeu especial atenção. Após o exame deste cenário textual, e das indicações sobre a luxúria característica das sociedades islâmicas, buscou-se responder a seguinte questão: em que medida as representações construídas por estes autores teriam incitado um imaginário sobretudo sexual acerca do harém? / The purpose of this research is to investigate how the European authors in the modern period conceptualized and represented the Islamic harem. In this sense, we examined a set of travel narratives, produced between the late sixteenth century and the eighteenth century, as well as dictionaries and encyclopedias from the same era. The former were the result of travels undertaken by Europeans with different profiles and projects towards the Ottoman Empire, Persia and North Africa, whose accounts were originally published in English and French. Among the sixteen main travel reports analyzed here, the last one published in 1791 described the experience of an English doctor in two harems of Morocco. Thus, the debate about the European medical assumptions in contact with the Moorish medical practices received special attention. After examining this textual scenario, and of indications on the characteristic lust of Islamic societies, we sought to answer the following question: the representations constructed by these authors would have incited an imaginary especially sexual about the harem?

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The following research records the functionality of collections of wealthy individuals in an effort to clarify the current system of collection categorization. Although many functions were indeed possible, this research will be restricted to the discussion of collections in which objects reveal the collector’s devotional, social, and intellectual curiosity. These classifications reflect the most prevalent themes initiated by my research on collections of royal and affluent collectors during the Early Modern Period, and as such are the three most rational means of discussing collections as functional, working, tools.

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Estes marcos cronológicos correspondem aproximadamente ao período em que a Reforma Católica teve lugar com maior intensidade, sendo a baliza inicial o ano em que osdecretos tridentinos foram incluídos na legislação portuguesa. Foi feita análise serial da incidência de práticas ascéticas nos relatos do Agiologio Lusitano, uma das principais fontes aqui utilizadas. Para além das pequenas biografias do Agiologio, fez-se um estudo mais detido de duas vitæ, biografias exemplares de caráter religioso, uma masculina (Vida e morte do Padre Fr. Estevão da Purificação, do Fr. Luís da Apresentação)e outra feminina (Historia da vida admiravel, & das acções prodigiosas da veneravel Madre Soror Brizida de Santo Antonio, do Fr. Agostinho de Santa Maria), visando explorar, a partir de dois casos, aspectos da vida de um asceta extremo. Buscou-se compreender as razões pelas quais os indivíduos praticavam autoflagelações sanguinolentase jejuns rígidos, e faziam uso de cilícios que retalhavam a carne, dentre outras severas penitências. Defende-se a tese de que estas formas de austeridade só se observam, no período estudado, entre os católicos, devido às concepções destes a respeito da salvação, especialmente com relação à valorização das obras meritórias e a necessidade de colaboração do fiel com a Graça, o que não se verifica entre os protestantes, os quais questionavam o valor salvífico das boas obras. Buscou-se ainda discutir questõesassociadas às relações de gênero na vivência dos ascetas. Do ponto de vista quantitativo, não há grandes diferenças entre os universos feminino e masculino, o que nos leva a concluir que são práticas compartilhadas. As diferenças no que respeita à afiliação a estratos sociais foram também levadas em consideração, embora, apesar de termos mais menções de nobres do que de gente humilde vinculados ao ascetismo, em quase ¾ dos casos investigados não há informação sobre a origem social e, portanto, não se pode afirmar que são práticas de um único estrato. Isto não significa que o ascetismo não tivesse importância social, pois se verificou que alguns indivíduos, normalmente marginalizados pela sociedade, a exemplo de mulheres pobres, podiam obter imenso prestígio, devido às práticas ascéticas. De todo modo, as frequentes referências na literatura religiosa da época indicam ser este um modelo de vida santa almejado por muitos, embora alcançado por poucos. In this dissertation, we seek to investigate sanctity profiles in Portugal from 1564 to 1700, focusing on ascetic practices. These dates correspond approximately to the period in which the Catholic Reformation was more intense, with the first chronological landmark being the year in which the decrees of the Council of Trent became part of Portuguese Law. We have analyzed the incidence of ascetic practices based upon the Agiologio Lusitano, one of the main sources of this study. Besides the short biographies from the Agiologio, we have explored in more depth two vitæ, exemplary religious biographies, one of a male (Vida e morte do Padre Fr. Estevão da Purificação, by Fr. Luís da Apresentação) and another of a female(Historia da vida admiravel, & das acções prodigiosas da veneravel Madre Soror Brizida de Santo Antonio, by Fr. Agostinho de Santa Maria), in an attempt to understand aspects of the life of an extreme ascetic. We have tried to determine the reasons why some individuals practised self-flagellation and very strict fasting, as well as made use of cilices, among other kinds of penance. We argue that, in the period studied, these forms of austerity only took place among Catholics, due to their specific conceptions as regards salvation, particularlyconcerning the necessity that the believer collaborate with Grace, through worthy actions. This does not occur among Protestants, who question the salvationist value of good conduct. The dissertation also discusses questions related to gender in ascetic experience and concludes that there are no considerable differences between the female and male worlds in the context investigated. Class differences have been examined as well. Figures of noble origin are mentioned more frequently than others but, for the majority of the ascetics, there is no reference to social origin. Thus it is not possible to conclude that these are practices of a single group. This does not mean that asceticism did not have social impact, since some marginalized individuals in society could acquire great prestige for being an ascetic. In any case, the frequent references to ascetic practices in the religious literature indicates that this was a model of a holy life that many aspired to live, although only a few could reach. / Salvador

The diploma thesis deals with manual that was created in Kožlany in the 18th century and tries to present the history of early modern liege small town and Kožlany municipality at the time. The main text of the thesis is divided into four chapters. At the beginning, the history of Kožlany is outlined with regard to early modern times. The following two chapters are devoted to the transcription and the original of manual. In these chapters the transcription is compared with the origin book, then follows the internal and external analysis of this town book, and paleographic analysis and segmentation of records to the category are formed. The fourth chapter deals with the town's administration, where all municipal officials are mentioned. In addition, this chapter contains a subchapter dedicated to municipal office, burgesses admission, and the economy. In conclusion are summarized the findings. The text is complemented with image attachments, which demonstrate manuscripts of individual scribes, tables and graphs related to the actual manual or the city administration.

1 Veronika Kucrová: Proměna kulturní krajiny v zázemí hlavního města: Dolnobřežansko v 16. - 19. století Abstract Transformation of the cultural landscape in the vicinity of the capital city: Dolnobřežansko in 16th-19th century This study is dealing with the development of cultural landscape in the Dolní Břežany Estate in the early modern times, specifically from late 16th century to the middle of 19th century. The focal points of the study are three important elements: the development of the built-up areas of the selected villages, the monitoring of the transformation of the landscape out of the built-up and uninhabited areas (forests in particular), and finally the detection of agricultural and other objects in the landscape - the reason of their origin, use and potential downfall. The Dolní Břežany Estate is located 16 km south of Prague, it was established gradually starting in 14th century but its biggest growth was during the beginning of 17th century. Minor aristocratic owners were replaced by influential representatives of the Czech state (the Želínský family of Sebuzín, Michna of Vacínov) until the Prague Archbishopric became the new owner in 1713. Thanks to that, most historical written sources come from the Prague Archbishopric Archive, alternatively from the manor farm estate archive. Using the...