The Literary Production of Philosophy Professors 16th- and 17th-Century Central Europe: A Brief Overview

The article presents a representative selection of a nearly hundred of the oldest maps of Central Europe which were influencing the development of map representation of Czech countries and mostly have not yet been published in Czech literature. Geographical content of map representation of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in maps of the Central European area is as informative as in separate maps of these territories. Cartographical information does not end on the other side of our border, but it links to representation of neighbouring countries and stresses political, religious, communication, linguistic and other connections and particularities as well. The selection is based on typographical classification (into ten groups) of printed maps of the Central European area of German, Italian, Dutch and French origin dating from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 17th century. Its knowledge is necessary to determine genealogy of Central European and regional maps from the period approximately till 1650.

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The Patterns of the Transformation in Central European Ceiling Painting around 1700 and Franz Carl Remp in Brežice Castle

Acta historiae artis Slovenica ◽

10.3986/ahas.26.2.08 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Martin Mádl

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

17Th Century ◽

Central European ◽

Pietro Da Cortona

The ceiling decoration of the Great Hall of Brežice Castle was executed for the Attems family by the painter Franz Carl Remp in 1702–1703. Its form had most probably been inspired by an engraving, reproducing the fresco by Pietro da Cortona in the hall of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. During the 17th century, many engravings of various motifs and types were used as models for monumental paintings in Central Europe. However, it was above all graphic reproductions of famous ceiling paintings in different artistic centres in Italy which inspired the qualitative turn of Central European ceiling painting around 1700.

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The case study of Villa Beatrice d’Este: management planning of a multi-layered site with Medieval ruins in the Veneto Region, Italy

Protection of cultural heritage ◽

10.35784/odk.2363 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 19-44

Author(s):

Valentina Gamba ◽

Sergio Calò ◽

Maurizio Malé ◽

Enzo Moretto

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

17Th Century ◽

Management Plan ◽

Veneto Region ◽

13Th Century ◽

Management Planning ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Funded Project ◽

The Eu

Villa Beatrice d’Este is a 17th century Venetian Villa in the Veneto Region, Italy, located within the area of the Euganean Hills Regional Park. The villa was built to replace a previous 13th century Medieval Monastery, whose structure was integrated in the villa. Remains of the Medieval structures are still visible today. The monumental complex constitutes an example of a multi-layered site with continuous life from Medieval times up to the present days. For this reason, the site was selected as a case study by the EU-funded project RUINS[1], in view of proposing a management plan to protect and valorise its complex heritage, as an example of heritage site with Medieval ruins in Europe. [1] RUINS, Sustainable re-use, preservation and modern management of historical ruins in Central Europe - elaboration of integrated model and guidelines based on the synthesis of the best European experiences. A project funded by the EU through the Interreg Central Europe Programme.

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3. The Chosen People

10.1093/actrade/9780198724834.003.0003 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Steven Beller

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Western Europe ◽

17Th Century ◽

Jewish Question ◽

The Political ◽

Political Systems ◽

Political Movement ◽

Political Force ◽

Radical Transformation

In the century before antisemitism emerged as a powerful political movement in the early 1880s, European Jewry had been through a radical transformation. ‘The Chosen People’ looks at developments around that time to help explain the path antisemitism took. Modernization of the European economy, society, and political systems from the mid-17th century onwards added to radical changes in thought and attitudes towards Jews. They needed to be integrated into society, and how to do this became known as the ‘Jewish Question’. Attempts to solve the ‘Jewish Question’ were more successful in Western Europe than in Russia and Central Europe. But Jewish difference persisted, partially explaining the political force of antisemitism.

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Russia, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the issue of restoration of permanent diplomatic missions at the end of 1680s

Slavic Almanac ◽

10.31168/2073-5731.2020.1-2.1.04 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 67-87

Author(s):

Nikоlay E. Domrachev ◽

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Significant Role ◽

17Th Century ◽

Diplomatic Relations ◽

Perpetual Peace ◽

External Threat ◽

The Common ◽

Inner Circle ◽

The Government

In the last third of the 17th century, the diplomatic relations between Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were significantly modernized. The countries exchanged permanent diplomatic representatives called “residents” by the contemporaries. This process was connected to the increase in contacts between the two countries facing the Ottoman offensive in East and Central Europe. But the common external threat did not lead to the end of historical tensions between Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was reflected in the fate of the permanent missions. The latter were eliminated in 1677. Only after the Treaty of Perpetual Peace (1686) conditions were created to resume the activities of the residents. Meanwhile, the inner circle of Jan III Sobieski and the government of the Prince Vasiliy V. Golitsyn had different views of the functions and goals of diplomatic representatives. A significant role in resuming the activities of the “residencies” played the mutual disbelief of the establishment of both countries and their wish to control the main actions of the ally.

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The Arabic-Turkish Fragments of the Croatian Latinist Writer Bartul Đurđević in the Polish Anti-Tatar Book Alfurkan Tatarski by Piotr Czyżewski (Wilno, 1616/1617)

Slavistica Vilnensis ◽

10.15388/slavviln.2020.65(2).45 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

pp. 26-37

Author(s):

Sergei Temchin

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

17Th Century ◽

Latin Translation ◽

Bilingual Dictionaries ◽

European Languages ◽

Latin Language ◽

Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽

Turkish Language ◽

Grand Duchy ◽

Manuscript Copy

The article focuses on the small Oriental texts published in Piotr Czyżewski’s Polish anti-Muslim pamphlet Alfurkan tatarski (Wilno, 1616/1617) directed against the local Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. These texts consist of a small Arabic-Turkish prayer and the well-known Ottoman prophecy about “The Red Apple” and the expected victory of Christians over the Turks. The author argues that they go back to the Latin-language editions of the Croatian writer Bartul Đurđević/Bartolomej Georgijević (c. 1506 – c. 1566), who, after his return from a long Ottoman captivity, published several books on the Turkish subjects that were translated into many national European languages and disseminated in different editions throughout Western and Central Europe. These editions often contained samples of Ottoman texts accompanied by a parallel Latin translation and Latin-language interpretations of them, as well as small bilingual dictionaries, thus introducing Islam and the Turkish language to Europe. The article demonstrates the widespread prevalence of both Oriental texts (the Arabic-Turkish prayer and the Ottoman prophecy) in the European printed tradition and the presence of interest in them in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, evidenced by a manuscript copy of the Ottoman prophecy (late 17th century) and the Polish translation of both texts published in 1548 and 1615.

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Victims of a 17th century massacre in Central Europe: Perimortem trauma of castle defenders

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology ◽

10.1002/oa.2737 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 281-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sylwia Łukasik ◽

Marta Krenz‐Niedbała ◽

Magdalena Zdanowicz ◽

Artur Różański ◽

Tomasz Olszacki

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

17Th Century

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The Topography of Central Europe from the 15th—17th Century.

Philosophy and History ◽

10.5840/philhist1986192102 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 162-163

Author(s):

Peter-Johannes Schuler ◽

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

17Th Century

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Erotic Začinka-Poem of the 17th Century

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne ◽

10.14746/pss.2018.14.16 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Milovan Tatarin

Keyword(s):

17Th Century ◽

Literary Production ◽

Aesthetic Pleasure ◽

Folk Literature ◽

Virtuous Life ◽

Epic Poems ◽

Century Literature

Paper focuses on a poem Mlad užežen u ljubavi, preserved in an early manuscript by Dubrovnikʼs merchant Miho Martellini, created before 1657. This is the most erotic začinka-poem of the 17th century, inspired by the so called cushion customs. The above mentioned poem is a part of a corpus created parallel with the official literary production, and its existence demonstrates the stratification of the 17th century literature, and marks the existence of thematically and stylistically pure folk literature, together with epics, epic poems, tragedies and tragicomedies. That sort of literature didnʼt have to change the readers, to instruct them in virtuous life, not even to give them some aesthetic pleasure. Its purpose was primarily entertainment.

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Thirty Years War, 1618–1648

Military History ◽

10.1093/obo/9780199791279-0198 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lucian Staiano-Daniels

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Primary Source ◽

17Th Century ◽

The Way

Historians still debate what to call the conflict that convulsed Central Europe from 1618 to 1648. Although it is largely accepted that this is “The Thirty Years War,” and indeed some people called it that shortly after it was over, some historians use this phrase to denote other wars, beginning earlier or ending later. This Thirty Years War was one of the most destructive conflicts on earth. Although the fighting took place primarily in central Europe, this complex multifaceted struggle eventually sucked in people from Ireland to Muscovy west to east, and from Norway to Italy north to south. Compared to the population at the time, it may have been proportionally more deadly than any war in western or central Europe before or since. This is an excellent time for Thirty Years War research. Some tenacious misunderstandings about the way early-17th-century strategy and combat worked are being rooted out. Primary source research is being done. Sterile debates that occupied the entire 19th and early 20th centuries are now barely even remembered. A full bibliography would list hundreds of thousands of works over four hundred years; here are several.

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