Elity społeczne i elity władzy w państwie czeskim od połowy XV wieku do 1740 – zarys problemu integracji Czech i Śląska w okresie w epoce wczesnonowożytnej. Część 2

Abstract

Social elites and political power elites in the Bohemian State from the mid-15th century to 1740 - an outline of the problem of social integration of Bohemia and Silesia in the early modern period

Changes in the organization of state authorities in the Bohemian Kingdom in the 15th-18th centuries caused the need to modify the socio-political elites so that they were adapted to the developing structure and divisions of power. In the 15th-16th centuries, their composition was determined by three factors: the political and territorial structure of the bohemian state, the state-monarchical system and the policy of kings. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Bohemian kings of the Habsburg dynasty created new political and political conditions, the so-called Habsburg absolutism, seeking to organize all of its territories into a united dominium under its hereditary rule and its maintenance based on building a new socio-political elite. For the existence of the state, an important question was whether the political elites of individual regions and countries would become part of the power elite and would receive access to central offices, thus co-creating the phenomenon of nation-wide elites. This conditioned territorial integration and social integration, so that the resulting state organism was capable of coherent, covering all territories of evolution in the following centuries. These complex problems were exemplified in the article on the integration processes in the period occurring between Bohemia and Silesia. The second issue was the politics pursued by royal authorities and affecting changes in the composition of Silesian social elites.