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.

Relying on a modernised infrastructure accessing cutting-edge text sources, a strategic network of contacts within specialised foreign institutions and an innovative research approach the department will establish itself as a respectable member of the international community. Research and publications by Ph.D. students will also be supported.

Aim of the project is to follow character of economic behaviour and character of econimic relationships of small towns' inhabitants of Pardubice estate in the 16th century and 17th centuries. On the basis of analysis of debts and transactions with real estates it will focusrelationship of subjects from Pardubice estate to funds and properties. It will concentrare on investment strategies of subject and specificities of their economic behaviour, and in context also the role of other groups, f.ex. Jews, ex-estates person, and esp. institutions in these transactions. On the basis of lists of debt it will try to find out extant of social networks and economic relations of small towns inhabilitants and also villagers and burghers from subject towns. Further it will focus on intensity of credit operations and their changes in the period and the question of credit in economic and social life. On the basis of disputes about debts it will follow attitude to credit, profit and extent of social feeling os subjects. Results of the research will be presented in serval articles and monography.

The project is concerned with the integrations of, and conflicts and passages between biomedicine and complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM). Drawing upon medical anthropology, science and technology studies and the sociology of medicine, we propose to carry out
a multi-sited ethnographic research in the Czech Republic which will, first, contribute to these three fields of study with original theoretical
insights and methodological strategies regarding disease, health and body, and second, enhance the understanding of the specificities of
CAM treatments and their interfaces with biomedicine in the contemporary Czech society. Distinctive features of the project include the focus
on 1) interfaces between biomedicine and CAM but also between different CAM approaches and practices; 2) heterogeneous materialities
and technologies as agents in the therapeutic practices; 3) technologies of the self, emerging socialities, and biosocial differentiation and
transformation taking place also beyond the medical/therapeutic settings in a strict sense.