The current study attempts to reconstruct the coronation of Joseph I as King of Hungary in Pressburg (Bratislava) on 9th December 1687 on the basis of a context analysis of written and iconographic primary sources. Yet, the author is not merely interested in outlining the political background of the coronation and the description of its progress. Using the methodological concept of symbolic communication he strives to decipher individual symbolic stages and gestures, which the very persons involved in the performance put into action. He does not overlook either the forms of personal representation of Joseph I, his parents – Leopold I and Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, the Hungarian Estates and the ways of visualising their social standing.
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Based on an analysis of official, private and literary sources, the presented study deals with various forms of education of the Unity of Brethren nobility during the period preceding the Battle of White Mountain, namely from its beginning in the so called fraucimor (women’s quarters), through school education both in the Czech Lands and abroad, up to the grand tours which were the conclusion of the educational process of the nobility. Attention is paid not only to boys but also to girls. The last part of the study deals with the links between the upbringing and education of the Unity of Brethren nobility and their confessional identity. It focuses mainly on various influences that could affect the children and youth. However, at the same time, it maintains that the influence of personal and other factors on the creation of confessional identity of individuals from the noble ranks of the 16th and early 17th century is rather difficult to decipher.
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The article deals with the issue of the socalled physico‑theology of the Early Modern age and its relationship to contemporary natural science. It serves as a background for one of the representatives of Christian natural science, Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594). An outline of the concepts, characteristics and period of physicotheological thought is followed by an analysis of Mercator’s main work, Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes, against marked features of the physicotheological method. Although known to the world as a geographer and cartographer whose inductive methodical approach ranks him among protagonists of natural science, in particular modern geography, Mercator himself places the focal point of his activities in cosmographic texts. They are clearly marked by a teleological way of thinking. All of Mercator’s (specialist) cognitive endeavours are doxologically aimed at a praise of God’s omnipotence, wisdom and goodness.
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