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Hranice v Komenského kraji a v Komenského době
| Title in English | Borders in Comenius’ Time and Comenius’ Region |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia Comeniana et Historica |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://www.mjakub.cz/studia-comeniana-et-historica-c.-97-98?idk=sce97%7C41 |
| Keywords | History; Early New Age; Moravia; Borders; Comenius |
| Description | The aim of this paper is to present the basic characteristics of the perception of the land border, the border of the estate or rather alternatively defined boundaries in the context of the Moravian culture of the “Comenius Period and Region”. Primarily, the text focuses on the period from the 1590s to the second half of the 17th century and on the south-eastern region of Moravia. However, it is clear that many of the problems that are being addressed are of longer duration and that they are also more general as for the field of geography. As evidenced, for example, by the articles of the Moravian Land Code or the Assembly Records, many of the phenomena monitored had been legally regulated by the Moravian states at least since the beginning of the 16th century. The Central European region, in early modern ages, was in agreement with legal and social particularism, therefore, it was full of borders, bearing not only legal but also symbolical meaning. These were boundaries that had been defined and assessed in the field of legal standards, applied documents at various levels of administration, on special maps and directly in the field. Besides, the symbolic “payment to remember” was also a way of keeping awareness of the course of a certain type of border. The early modern frontiers were protected and, where appropriate, provided with various technical facilities and also militarily defended. Such border is often a modern historiography, which predominantly draws from the sources of information about countless early modern border disputes between estates and their rulers. In the Early Modern Age, the boundaries of all kind undoubtedly represented a substantial and under certain circumstances strictly guarded and almost impenetrable line whose unjustified overrun in one or the other direction was prosecuted by the norms of the provincial or magisterial law. |
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