- Introduction
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.
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.
