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Franciscans and 'Krstjani' of Bosnia and Hum

Franjevci i bosansko-humski krstjani

Author(s): Andrija Zirdum / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

The rise of the Franciscan order in Bosnia provokes great interest among historians. They emerged at the junction of two cultures: they inherited tolerance and perseverance from the East-Byzantium and the West offered them constant support and refreshment. From a historical context, it is clear that the first Franciscan cases appeared after the Bosnian bishop relocated to Đakovo and the pressures from Hungarian-Croatian rulers on Bosnia diminished together with Dominican activities. Thus they left the territory to the non-coreligionist Church of Bosnia and the Franciscans got their chance. With the founding the Bosnian vicary, Franciscan missionaries arrived from different parts of Europe. It seems that not many of them arrived, but those that came had trouble adapting to conditions in Bosnia and were, sometimes, influenced by political and church situation in their country. Since the vicary was soon separated from the Bosnian geographical territory, the foreign missionaries remained in the region across the Sava River. Those who did not learn the local language or accepted the Old Slavic liturgical practice had no chance for a successful long-term career. Many sources, either directly or indirectly, speak of the Franciscan success. During the 15th century, according to the sources, the Franciscans converted the majority of the population of Bosnia and Hum to Catholicism, refreshed it and gave it a more conspicuously western, Roman character. Even the oldest of Ottoman defters and a great number of Catholics in the region of Tuzla even fifty years after the Ottoman conquest confirm this.

GREY Working Paper No. 3: Tackling the Undeclared Economy in FYR Macedonia, a Baseline Assessment

GREY Working Paper No. 3: Tackling the Undeclared Economy in FYR Macedonia, a Baseline Assessment

Author(s): Rositsa Dzhekova,Josip Franic,Lyubo Mishkov,Colin C. Williams / Language(s): English

This working paper is an output of the European Commission’s FP7 "Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways" (IAPP) project entitled "GREY - Out of the shadows: developing capacities and capabilities for tackling undeclared work in Bulgaria, Croatia and FYR Macedonia". Ms Rositsa Dzhekova and Mr. Lyubo Mishkov, Center for the Study of Democracy, and Prof. Colin C. Williams and Mr. Josip Franic, GREY-IAPP, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield elaborated the report in July 2014. This report provides a detailed review of available evidence on the extent and nature of the undeclared economy in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), as well as on the institutional actors involved in tackling the phenomenon and their policy approach and measures used.

PART V: Limits of the millennium, present

V DIO: Granice milenija, sadašnjost

Author(s): Elmaja Bavčić,Zlatan Delić / Language(s): Bosnian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: women; public life; BiH; millennium; present;

Započeto razvodnjavanje i rasplinjavanje ženskih prava i utjecaja postignutih izlaskom žena iz privatne u javnu sferu tokom rata nastavilo se u postsocijalističkoj BiH. Tranzicija, izgradnja države, postdejtonski kontekst, kvote – nacionalne, teritorijalne, rodne, demokratizacija i ostali socijalni ugovori pokazali su se vrlo rodno obojeni kada se govori o restrukturi ženskih pozicija. U procesima ekonomske reintegracije, reartikulaciji radnih prava i ostvarivanja političke moći, mjesto i uloga žene nastavlja retrogradni trend započet sa posljednjim ratom. Glavni neprijatelji feminizma u postjugoslavenskom prostoru su državne nacionalne ideologije, na impresivan način paralelne u svome diskursu, postupcima, stavu prema ženama.

PART V: Limits of the millennium, present

V DIO: Granice milenija, sadašnjost

Author(s): Elmaja Bavčić,Zlatan Delić / Language(s): Bosnian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: women; public life; BiH; millenium; present;

Započeto razvodnjavanje i rasplinjavanje ženskih prava i utjecaja postignutih izlaskom žena iz privatne u javnu sferu tokom rata nastavilo se u postsocijalističkoj BiH. Tranzicija, izgradnja države, postdejtonski kontekst, kvote – nacionalne, teritorijalne, rodne, demokratizacija i ostali socijalni ugovori pokazali su se vrlo rodno obojeni kada se govori o restrukturi ženskih pozicija. U procesima ekonomske reintegracije, reartikulaciji radnih prava i ostvarivanja političke moći, mjesto i uloga žene nastavlja retrogradni trend započet sa posljednjim ratom. Glavni neprijatelji feminizma u postjugoslavenskom prostoru su državne nacionalne ideologije, na impresivan način paralelne u svome diskursu, postupcima, stavu prema ženama.

PART V: Borders of the Millennium: the Present

PART V: Borders of the Millennium: the Present

Author(s): Elmaja Bavčić,Zlatan Delić / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: women; public life; BiH; Dayton accords; millenium; present; patriarchy; capitalism; social rights; education; employment; associations; movements; lesbian; Romani women; cyber-feminists; art;

The initiated watering down and dissipation of women’s rights and influences achieved with women’s move from the private to public sphere during the war continued in post-socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina. Transition, re-building the country, the post-Dayton context, quotas – national, territorial and gender - democratisation and other social contracts proved to be very gendered with regard to the restructuring of women’s positions. In the processes of economic reintegration, re-articulation of labour rights and achievement of political power, women’s place and role continued to follow a retrograde trend, which started with the most recent war. The main enemies of feminism in the post-Yugoslav space were state and national ideologies, impressively parallel in their discourse, actions and position towards women.

From bogumil's myth to hegemonic pretensions (History of a Counterfeit: From the Bishop of Nikola Modruški to the Academician Muhamed Filipović)

Od bogumilskog mita do hegemonističkih pretenzija (Povijest jedne krivotvorine: od biskupa Nikole Modruškog do akademika Muhameda Filipovića)

Author(s): Dubravko Lovrenović / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Bosnia; medieval age; Bogumil; myth; hegemony; pretension; counterfeit; history; Nikola Modruški; Muhamed Filipović;

“Historiografi su uvijek bili tumači određenih interesa ustanova i moćnika, no u novom svijetu građanskog načina života i mišljenja povijest, pod utjecajem filozofa, postaje crpilište svih postojećih ideologija, jer se manipulacijom izvorima može povijesno opravdati svaki interes.” (Mirjana GROSS, Suvremena historiografija. Korijeni, postignuća, traganja, Zavod za hrvatsku povijest Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, 1996., 117. – 118.) Kada je Organizacijski odbor znanstvenog skupa posvećenog arheologu i povjesničaru Pavi Anđeliću tijekom 2005. pravio listu tema i predavača, u optjecaju su bile i tri recepcije bosanskog srednjovjekovlja: srpska, hrvatska i bošnjačka. Meni je prvotno bila namijenjena problematika hrvatske historiografske recepcije, dok je za srpsku i bošnjačku tek trebalo naći autore, što je ipak bilo lakše zamisliti nego ostvariti. Referat o bosanskom srednjovjekovlju u opusu Krunoslava Draganovića tek je djelomično mogao zadovoljiti ambiciju organizatora kada je riječ o hrvatskoj historiografskoj recepciji, dok je srpska ostala nepokrivena. Od mogućnosti da u jednom okviru ja obradim ove tri teme odustao sam, uvjeren da svaku od njih najprije treba obraditi pojedinačno. Vođen spoznajom da sustavno mitologiziranje (bogumiliziranje) bosanskog srednjovjekovlja aktualizirano od 1991./92. i na njemu zasnovani hegemonijalni politički koncepti zavređuju širi osvrt, odlučio sam se za ovaj naslov.

"The famous palace of the kingdom in Trstivnica" (repromulgation of the Bosnia kingdom in 1377)

“Slavni dvor kraljevstva u Trstivnici” (Ponovno o proglašenju Bosne kraljevstvom 1377.)

Author(s): Dubravko Lovrenović / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Bosnia; middle ages; kingdom; Trstivnica; palace; repromulgation; 1377;

The act of proclaiming the Bosnian Kingdom in 1377, which had been preceded by the reform of the royal chancellery of Tvrtko I Kotromanić in the spirit of the diplomatic norms of the ruling Serbian chancellery, resulted in applying these norms in the field of sacral and political representation in the creation of the new state and to its end in 1463. This is particularly apparent in the arengae of Cyrillic charters related to the correspondence between Bosnian rulers and Dubrovnik, the closest and most important ecclesiastical, political and economic partner of the Medieval Bosnian State. Of course that ecclesiastical-law terminology was not mechanically adopted, and was not a decorative element of documents, but rather had the goal of serving a fundamental purpose: to describe the new juridical, ecclesiastical and ideological reality that had emerged with the transformation of Bosnian bannats in the kingdom; this is most completely represented in the arenga as a key part of the document containing political actuality and propagating state ideas and the virtue of monarchy. Th e introduction of the Raška arenga with its ecclesiastical language and new system of ecclesiastical political ideas indicates the transformation of the ruling ideology of Kotromanićes from the ruler-autocrat model represented by the identification of ban Stjepan II, Prince Vladislav and Tvrtko I Kotromanić with Saint Gregory Wonderworker in the ruler-autocrat model, whose foundation was in the dynastic holiness of Serbian Orthodox Nemanjićes. This new system of state ideas was supported by the syntagms which, with the greater part of them copied from Serbian diplomatic material as of 1377, embellished the Bosnian royal and governmental documents: „...“ Nevertheless, this does not mean that the Medieval Bosnian Kingdom became only a “branch” of the Serbian Kingdom and did not have its own political and cultural identity. On the contrary, the endeavors are still present attributing this specific Slavic political formation first to the embodiment of the national spirit, the Croatian people – the so-called Ruler Trpimirovićes – and then even to the Serbian ruling dynasty of Nemanjićes before they were painted over by the integral political programs of the second half of the XIX century, when the question Whose is Bosnia? was asked; rather, the stronghold is in the historical science conducted under the principle: Sine ira et studio. Th us, without hatred and biasness, fairly, objectively and justly. For the historiography of the open horizon to the past and to the future. Of course, this is within the premises which Ryszard Kapuściński discusses.

List of students

Popis studenata

Author(s): Nikolina Mustapić / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

[Popise profesora i studenata prema Katalogu slušača sačinila Nikolina Mustapić]

Notable persons of the monastery of Guča Gora

Znamenite osobe gučogorskog samostana

Author(s): Velimir Valjan / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Guča Gora; monastery; notable; persons; Franciscans; church; builders; "uncles"; bishops;

A long and stormy history of Lašva’s monastery is interwoven with strong persons who lived really human, Franciscan-monkish and priestly consistent lives. In a geographic map of the Franciscan movement, Bosnian Franciscans are a unique historical experience because of historical coalescing with the common Bosnian people, with their homeland – although they always were “strangers and newcomers” there. Very often they were exposed to unbearable difficulties, also to death, but it didn’t stop their enthusiasm and ideals. Their ideals are Franciscan ones and rooted in the Bible; it is deep faith, stable hope, and above all the love of Christ, of the Church and of the people they lived for. Celebrating the 100-aniversary it is impossible to mention all of the persons woven into life of the monastery, but in the form of a small reading, there are mentioned some of those who built the monastery and the church, those “uncles” whose footprints are deeply imprinted in its history as writers, bishops, persons with historical meaning.

Analysis of the BiH judiciary with reference to the practical problems of the party in the open market

Analiza pravosuđa BiH s osvrtom na praktične probleme stranke u postupku

Author(s): Senad Pizović / Language(s): Bosnian

Keywords: BiH judiciary; High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH; public prosecutor; judicial practice; public law;

I have tried to show practical problems in the BiH judiciary I encounter in my daily work. They cast doubt on the proper functioning of the judiciary as a whole. One should not neglect the positive features of the judiciary, especially the honorable and responsible holders of judicial functions, but addressing problems in the daily work of a lawyer can certainly contribute to the articulation of practical problems and their resolution. With regard to the issue of public self-representation, I believe that the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH should take measures to avoid inappropriate behavior of the public prosecutor and their mutual accusation. At the same time, measures should be taken to protect the holders of judicial functions from inappropriate and unprofessional reporting of the media in relation to their work of judicial functionaries. When it comes to problem-solving issues within a reasonable time, I consider that the first step would be for the BiH High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council to take measures to determine the responsibility for not making a decision within a reasonable time. This would, I believe, prevent or at least significantly reduce the length of court proceedings in BiH. If there are objective circumstances such as court overload or lack of material and human resources, the HJPC should initiate the initiative to provide appropriate courts and tribunals with adequate material and human resources to assist the work of targeted courts. Such a HJPC initiative that would precede the analysis of critical points in the work of the courts should be presented as an elementary public interest by which responsibility would be transferred to the hands of the legislative authority. With regard to uneven judicial practice, I consider that it is necessary to appoint a judge for the harmonization of court practice in each court, whose exclusive task would be to avoid the different case law of the courts, which would ultimately lead to greater public confidence in the BiH judiciary and facilitated the exercise of the rights of parties in the proceedings.

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Prevodi

Author(s): Magda Petryńska,Danièle Sallenave,T. M.,Leonidas Hatziprodromidis,Predrag Matvejević,Melita Richter Malabotta,Paolo Facchi,Nino Recupero,Claudio Venza / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Serbia; Belgrade circle; intellectuals; imposing barbarity; resisting government; nationalism;

Interrogations, Disputes, Transformations

Propitivanja, prijepori, transformacije

Author(s): Tihomir Ponoš,Miroslav Ambruš Kiš,Milena Beader,Srđan Dvornik,Vesna Janković,Nela Pamuković,Duška Pribičević-Gelb,Nenad Zakošek,Ognjen Tus,Vesna Teršelič / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Croatia; ARK; antiwar; 2011; transcript;

Transkript razgovora osnivača/ica Antiratne kampanje, održanog 29. lipnja 2011. u Kući ljudskih prava, Zagreb. Razgovor moderirao Tihomir Ponoš. Sudionici: Miroslav Ambruš Kiš, Milena Beader, Srđan Dvornik, Vesna Janković, Nela Pamuković, Duška Pribičević-Gelb, Vesna Teršelič, Ognjen Tus, Nenad Zakošek

Religious Conversion of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia

Preveravanje Srba u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj

Author(s): Milan Koljanin / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Yugoslavia; religious conversion of Serbs; Independent State of Croatia; Ustasha regime;1940s; Roman Church; politics and religion; Ante Pavelić;

Jugoslovenska država je 1918. stvorena na liberalnim načelima, među njima i na načelu slobode veroispovesti i verske ravnopravnosti, baštineći tradiciju Kraljevine Srbije. To načelo je prihvaćeno tokom pregovora o uređenju buduće države sredinom 1917. i uneseno u Ustav nove države. Uvođenje liberalnog građanskog uređenja u jugoslovenskoj državi je omogućilo polet hrvatskog nacionalističkog pokreta oličenog u Hrvatskoj seljačkoj stranci. Rimokatolička crkva (RKC) nije bila zadovoljna svojim položajem u jugoslovenskoj državi. Umesto privilegovanog položaja u dvojnoj monarhiji, ona je posle 1918. bila jedna od priznatih veroispovesti u državi u kojoj je vladar bio pravoslavne vere. Izvestan broj rimokatolika je iz raznih razloga (iz ubeđenja, zbog braka, iz karijerističkih pobuda) prihvatio pravoslavnu veru. Velikodostojnici RKC su izuzetno preuveličavali te brojeve nastojeći i time da dokažu da je ona u neravnopravnom položaju u odnosu na Srpsku pravoslavnu crkvu (SPC). Gašenje političke aktivnosti posle proglašenja diktature kralja Aleksandra januara 1929. otvorilo je prostor RKC da preko masovnih organizacija Katoličke akcije i Križara organizuje jednu od najsnažnijih opozicija režimu. [...]

Religious Conversions from Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism and Greek Catholicism in the Archdiocese of Zagreb between 1941 and 1945

Vjerski prijelazi s pravoslavne na rimokatoličku i grkokatoličku vjeroispovijest (prekrštavanja) na području Zagrebačke nadbiskupije između 1941. i 1945.

Author(s): Filip Škiljan / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: religious conversions; Serbs; The Second World War; Archdiocese of Zagreb; Roman Catholicism; Greek Catholicism;

U prvoj polovici 20. st., balkanski i svjetski ratovi su prekrajali geopolitičku kartu svijeta. Mnoge su države nestajale, a mnoge nastajale. Odnosi Svete Stolice s novonastalim državama tradicionalno su bili uređivani posebnim, sveobuhvatnim ugovorima, konkordatima. Prije Prvog svjetskog rata Sveta je Stolica imala sklopljene konkordate s Crnom Gorom (1886.) i Srbijom (1914.), ali s obzirom da ti ugovori nisu bili primjenjivi na novonastalu državu (Kraljevinu SHS, kasnije Kraljevinu Jugoslaviju), trebala je Sveta Stolica nakon priznanja nove države, Kraljevine SHS, 6. studenog 1919., s njom sklopiti sporazum kojim bi se pravno regulirao položaj Rimokatoličke crkve u državi: pitanja vjeronauka u školama i crkvama, prava vjerskih škola i ustanova, stjecanja crkvenih dobara, slobode komuniciranja sa Svetom Stolicom, slobode djelovanja katoličkih organizacija te niz drugih pitanja iz vjerskog života.3 U Kraljevini SHS živjelo je 1921. godine 48% pravoslavnih, 39% katolika i 13% pripadnika ostalih vjerskih zajednica. Pregovori oko konkordata otpočeli su ranih dvadesetih godina i potrajali više od desetljeća, da bi se 1935. postigla suglasnost oko svih detalja te se formirani ugovor (koji Stojadinovićeva vlada potpisuje 1937.) poslao u Skupštinu i Senat na usvajanje. Međutim, tada zbog ogorčenog protivljenja Srpske pravoslavne crkve konkordatu nastaje duboka politička kriza koja je, uz krizu nakon atentata na Stjepana Radića u Skupštini, bila možda i najopasnija kriza između dva rata. Proces ratifikacije konkordata tada se obustavlja. [...]

Crimes against Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Examples of Sarajevo, Mostar and Srebrenica (1992–1995)

Zločini nad djecom u Bosni i Hercegovini na primjerima Sarajeva, Mostara i Srebrenice (1992–1995)

Author(s): Zilha Mastalić-Košuta / Language(s): Bosnian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: children; siege; Sarajevo; Mostar; Srebrenica; Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; crimes; 1992–1995;

Numerous crimes against children were committed in the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995). In this paper, the subject of research will be a review of crimes against children in Sarajevo, Mostar and Srebrenica. Numerous documents, data, statements, information, findings and numerous verdicts of convicted war criminals before the ICTY and before domestic courts testify to the crimes committed in these three cities. The mass and manner of committing crimes against children in Sarajevo, Mostar and Srebrenica, as examples of crimes against children throughout the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, prove that the aggressors did not have a sensitivity to the youngest and most protected category of civilians.

Antemurale Christianitatis of Croatian Oral Literature: Frontiersman Mentality of Dalmatia Through Oral Epsonic Song and Cultural Memory in Croatian-Ottoman Wars

Antemurale Christianitatis hrvatske usmene književnosti: graničarski mentalitet Dalmacije kroz usmenu epsku pjesmu i kulturalno pamćenje o hrvatsko-osmanskim ratovima

Author(s): Vanda Babić,Denis Vekić / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: oral literature; cultural memory; Croatia; Dalmatia; the Neretva Valley; history; frontiersmen; Boka kotorska

The paper presents the motives of cultural memory which were recorded in the oral epic poems and in the tradition in Dalmatia (the Neretva Valley and Boka kotorska). The territory of Dalmatia bordered with the Ottoman Empire at the time of the Croatian-Ottoman wars, thus the oral literature of this area produced oral epic poem as a reflection of forced war and fateful contacts. Living on the frontier of Christianity and Islam has brought up a special frontier mentality which can be traced in modernity, not only through the preservation of the heritage festivities, but also through collective memory which defines the importance of the survival of everything that is geologically and culturally on margin with the threatening “other”.

Factors Determining the Composition of Means and Methods of Strength Training of Athletes Specialising in Sports Wrestling

Factors Determining the Composition of Means and Methods of Strength Training of Athletes Specialising in Sports Wrestling

Author(s): Victor Manolachi,Veaceslav Manolachi / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: sport; strength training; wrestling

This paper explores the possibilities of neuroregulatory adaptation of muscle motor units for the development and manifestation of strength qualities and the importance of taking into account and reducing the protective reactions of muscle and tendon echanoreceptors. Moreover, this research tackles the role of muscle microtraumas and the activation of muscle fibre regeneration in the development and manifestation of strength qualities.

THE BOSNIAN RUSAG AND THE HOLY CROWN OF BOSNIA (THE INFLUENCE OF HUNGARY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF MEDIEVAL BOSNIA)

BOSANSKI RUSAG I SVETA KRUNA BOSANSKA (UTJECAJ UGARSKE NA RAZVOJ POLITIČKIH INSTITUCIJA SREDNJOVJEKOVNE BOSNE)

Author(s): Dubravko Lovrenović / Language(s): Croatian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Bosnia; BiH; Rusag; Hungary; middle ages; political institutions;

U svom opširnom prilogu autor izlaže elemente koji govore o značajnom utjecaju ugarske krune i kraljevine Ugarske u cjelini na formiranje institucije bosanske krune, bosanske kraljevine i na način uspostavljanja vladavine u Bosni, osobito izbora njenih banova i kraljeva, kao i na Bosnu kao državu u cjelini.

MEDIA PRESENTATION OF ZAVNOBIH IN THE PERIOD 1995-2017

MEDIJSKA PREZENTACIJA ZAVNOBIH-a U PERIODU 1995.-2017.

Author(s): Željka Poloni / Language(s): Bosnian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: ZAVNOBIH; Bosnia and Herzegovina; journalistic ethics; sources of information; reports; antifascism; nationality; legislation;

This essay comparatively examines explanations of ZAVNOBIH subject in between 1995 – 2017. From the end of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina until today the policy of media in Bosnia has dual and politically coordinated reporting. The powerful interference of international community into media field, was heading more towards establishment of free media and the prevention of hateful speech, rather than to preclude the creation of ethnonational “free” media that were used to empower ethnic separations. Consequently, reporting on this topic is often divided into media outlets, according to which ethnic group the media belongs to. The result is a sharply divided public discourse, in general, about the ZAVNOBIH in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This article critically analyzes the ways in which ZAVNOBIH is written in the daily news papers. The analysis generaly is divided into two parts, in the first, examples of a neutral and / or objective speech on the ZAVNOBIH are shown, and the other ones are the clauses containing negative context of open attempt and shameless falsification of history, without objective approach. Here, the great estattentionis dedicated to propaganda against ZAVNOBIH, because in one part of local media, it is politically created and is the most common form of writing about this topic.

"AD MAIOREM GENTIS GLORIAM" JOHN ADOLF OF SCHWARZENBERG AND THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE

„AD MAIOREM GENTIS GLORIAM“ JAN ADOLF ZE SCHWARZENBERKU A ŘÁD ZLATÉHO ROUNA

Author(s): Kristýna Bauerová / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Jan Adolf of Schwarzenberg; Order of the Golden Fleece;

Using modern theoretical perspectives of historical anthropology and the concept of symbolic communication, this study focuses on the ceremony awarding Jan Adolf of Schwarzenberg the Order of the Golden Fleece that took place on the 1st December 1650 in Brussels. The study’s aim is to reconstruct the proceedings consisting of separate ritual steps related to being accepted to one of the most prestigious orders of the Early Modern Period. The substantial part of the study is concerned with the interpretation of chronologically ordered parts of the performance that are considered according to their symbolical contents. The study also attempts to reconstruct Jan Adolf of Schwarzenberg’s nets of noble communicants who helped him to be awarded the longed-for Order of the Golden Fleece by the means of sending an intercession to the Spanish king or the emperor. Last but not least, the author of the study intends to outline the symbolic meaning of surviving congratulatory documents on the occasion of the awarding and letters of thanks that the count sent to his communicants. On the basis of the analysis of the previously mentioned documents, it is obvious that they did not only retain the memory of the exceptional honour for future generations but they served also to increase Jan Adolf of Schwarzenberg’s honourable status in the eyes of his contemporaries.