Politické, mocenské a hospodářské strategie šlechty v českých zemích ve 14.–15. století
Political, Power and Economic Strategy of Nobility in the Czech Lands in the 14th-15th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The author tries to analyse aristocratic strategies in the Czech Lands in 14th and 15th centuries. In the introduction he analysis the state of the current research about Czech Late Medieval aristocracy. The following part delimits the basic propositions of aims of the noblemen in the given period, which was achieved through analysis of sources and current literature. The author then analyses individual aristocratic strategies, both lower and higher nobility included. The nobility could not imagine a country without its monarch, therefore one of its strategies was to have an occupied throne. Another strategy aimed at legalization of their rights, which they succeeded in 1500 through Vladislavské zřízení (a code of law). The aim, to which most of the aristocratic strategies were submitted to, was an economic and social elevation of individuals from the nobility, noble families and houses. Among other important strategies of aristocratic individuals during the 15th century was also an effort to unite component dominions (purchase of villages close to the centre of dominions and sales of villages further away). There was a gradual development in strategies, where aristocrats based on military strategy – knights and warriors, changed to business strategy – aristocrat as an entrepreneur (mainly from the 1480s).

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