The Royalty between the Baroque and the Enlightenment. The Habsburgs as Bohemian Kings in 17th and 18th Century

The project was dedicated to structural issues of the royal power in the 17th and 18th century Bohemia, when Central Europe experienced a transformation from the Baroque to the Enlightenment society. This transformation was reflected and often directly initiated by the Habsburg monarchs who acted as the kings of Bohemia towards the local population. The project was not about biograms of the monarchs or description of events during their rule, but about assessment of selected aspects of the Habsburg rule, as important factors for its legitimation (the monarchial ceremony and rituals, political theory and its expression in legal texts, creation of the monarch's image in the Bohemian society and its reception, etc The project applicants certainly did not overlook the European dimension of the Habsburg family; their rule in other countries, much as their personal profile, will form the necessary background for evaluation of their relation to the Czech Lands.

In 2021, the grant team — consisting of Jiří Hrbek, Jiří Mikulec, Martina Ondo Grečenková, Štěpán Vácha, Marc Niubo and Kateřina Bobková-Valentová — published the book Royal Majesty. The Habsburgs as Bohemian Kings in the 17th and 18th Centuries, winning the Academia Publishing House's Book of the Year Award in 2022.