Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.32725/oph.2021.003
Matthieu Magne
{"title":"Art in everyday life in the Habsburg monarchy. Count Charles-Joseph de Clary-Aldringen (1777-1831)","authors":"Matthieu Magne","doi":"10.32725/oph.2021.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/oph.2021.003","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the relation between aristocratic status and art in daily life of Charles-Joseph de Clary-Aldringen, the landlord of Teplice in Bohemia. The aristocrat acquired great skills in all arts, but was not a professional. He was an amateur who used art to express his membership of the grand monde by taking part in performances, by staging himself, and by knowing how to decipher all the social codes. We discuss his role as a diarist, as artist drawing pictures, as theatre actor and as collector of art. We show how the competition between aristocratic families motivated him to develop the spa of Teplice. We explore the role of drawing and letter-writing in his self-expression. If the professional lives by his art, amateurs like the Comte de Clary live by the arts. The requirements are different. The aristocrat seeks to construct and stage an identity where the nobleman becomes the artist of his own life by combining the imperative of social distinction with aesthetic pleasure.","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44764973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.32725/oph.2021.001
Miroslav Beneš
{"title":"John Knox and Christopher Goodman in the (im)mortal Fight against Women, Bastards and Outlanders","authors":"Miroslav Beneš","doi":"10.32725/oph.2021.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/oph.2021.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42075619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2020-09-30DOI: 10.32725/oph.2020.023
K. Cerny
{"title":"The beginnings of variolation against smallpox in Europe (1713-1721)","authors":"K. Cerny","doi":"10.32725/oph.2020.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/oph.2020.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42434254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2020-09-30DOI: 10.32725/oph.2020.026
Vojtěch Kessler
{"title":"\"An evil guest arrived in the autumn.\" Cholera in the war year 1866 in sources of a personal nature","authors":"Vojtěch Kessler","doi":"10.32725/oph.2020.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/oph.2020.026","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the contemporary texts dealing with the war year 1866 contain mentions of the course and consequences of the cholera epidemic brought to Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia by the Prussian army of occupation. In the sources we examined, certain thematic frameworks or figures were repeated, which can be summarized as follows: 1) Metaphorical names for cholera or its symptoms; 2) Speculation about the causes; 3) The causal connection between the epidemic and the Prussian army's lack of moderation as regards diet; 4) Relationship with the social status of the infected (deceased); 5) Metaphorical designations for the spread of the epidemic in the given localities; 6) Previous \"epidemics\" of panic fear and anxiety; 7) Methods of prevention and treatment; 8) Lay notions of symptoms; 9) High mortality and its impact on church activities.","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43761346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2020-09-30DOI: 10.32725/oph.2020.022
M. Scheutz
{"title":"The Anger of God, Plague Lazarettes and Danube Islands. The Vienna plague of 1713 and the authorities","authors":"M. Scheutz","doi":"10.32725/oph.2020.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/oph.2020.022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42230332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2020-09-30DOI: 10.32725/oph.2020.021
Miroslava Květová, Marie Tošnerová
{"title":"Plague epidemics in Czech early modern towns as seen through the lens of narrative sources","authors":"Miroslava Květová, Marie Tošnerová","doi":"10.32725/oph.2020.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/oph.2020.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43228734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2020-09-30DOI: 10.32725/oph.2020.025
Markéta Skořepová
{"title":"Cholera and baroque miracles: the epidemic of 1832 and the pilgrimage site of Křemešník","authors":"Markéta Skořepová","doi":"10.32725/oph.2020.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/oph.2020.025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48721496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.32725/OPH.2020.001
J. Čížek
{"title":"Věřitelé Ferdinanda I. ze zemí Koruny české v letech 1526-1545","authors":"J. Čížek","doi":"10.32725/OPH.2020.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/OPH.2020.001","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the issue of credit as one of the instruments used by Ferdinand I in his interior policy during the first half of his reign (1526-1545). It discusses the methods used by the sovereign in dealing with the recognition of debts of his predecessors towards his supporters and his antagonists. The research focuses on the client networks that originated from the financial ties between Ferdinand I and representatives of Bohemian nobility. The article defines the main types of creditors who provided loans to the sovereign in the first half of 16th century and uncovers also their motivation for doing so.","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":"21 1","pages":"7-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70051831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.32725/oph.2020.007
Ivo Cerman
{"title":"On Rights without Natural Law","authors":"Ivo Cerman","doi":"10.32725/oph.2020.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/oph.2020.007","url":null,"abstract":"What is important for the historiography of human rights is that Dan Edelstein worked with early modern texts on legal theory and recognized that the real issue was the question of rights after the social contract .1 Most historians would just ask whether philosophers acknowledged human rights or not, but would not enquire about further conditions . Another good thing is that he appreciates the historical logic which induced early modern thinkers to prioritize the reform of existing laws over the invention of new rights .2 These are signs that this interpretation is based on inductive reasoning and not deduced from preconceived conclusions . The problem, then, is that the book does not look for historical legal solutions to the survival of rights within a legal system but satisfies itself with the notion of the preservation regime . 3 This might be the impact of the metaphorical language which approaches rights as if they were a flowing river or a growing plant .4 It should be said that such metaphors are quite common in intellectual history, but they may hide lacunae in relevant knowledge by creating fictional connections . Even though this story is balanced with some contextual reconstructions, it may be misread as another version of skepticism which denies the significance of natural law for the formulation of „universal human rights“ . If we take „human rights“ as a legal instrument artificially made, and not as a good to be protected, then we also have to explain how this instrument was construed and I am afraid that this is not possible without early modern natural law .","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48558537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Opera HistoricaPub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.32725/OPH.2020.005
E. Champs
{"title":"How to Do Things with Rights? On Circulation of Ideas between Great Britain and France","authors":"E. Champs","doi":"10.32725/OPH.2020.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32725/OPH.2020.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36082,"journal":{"name":"Opera Historica","volume":"21 1","pages":"72-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70051556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}