Epizentrum und Bebengebiet. Die böhmischen Länder im Dreißigjährigen Krieg

Bohuslav Balbín and the Patriotic Reconceptualization of Bohemia, c. 1650–1675

“…The administrations of the dynastic territories of the Bohemian kings were autonomous and separate before 1627, but this disunity was emphasized as a result of the battle of White Mountain. 22 The growing centralization and unification of the Habsburg Erblande (hereditary lands) following the Thirty Years' War had a paradoxical consequence for the Bohemian monarchy: it became increasingly fragmented. Although the polity had been considerably administratively, religiously, and politically dividednotably during the Hussite wars, the reign of Jiří of Poděbrady (1420-71), and the struggle between Rudolf II and Matthias Iits administrative separation grew even as its religious landscape was more unified.…”