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Book Review: Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther

Book Review: Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther BOOK REVIEWS It is through this detailed analysis of sources such as estate registers (Grundbücher), seigneurial and village court protocols (Schöppenbücher), and tax records, as well as some royal administrative and (later) cadastral surveys, that these historians have attempted to reconstruct the workings of early mod- ern Bohemia’s social structures. Most of the articles mentioned above rely heavily on the Grundbücher. Th is important type of source has been discussed in detail by one of the contributors, Chocholác, in his “Grundbücher in Böhmen und Mähren,” (530–39 in Josef Pauser, et al., eds., Quellenkunde der Habsburger- monarchie (16.–18. Jahrhundert): Ein exemplarisches Handbuch [Vienna, 2004]). In the same handbook, contributor Štefanová includes a piece on the fascinating Schöppenbücher (ibid., 511–15.) In many cases, the sources allow only a schematic view, and oft en the forms outweigh the individuals involved in administering and experiencing the net of relationships and obligations, but the best articles in this important collection balance some type of structural analysis with individual case studies, which allow people to populate the forms that the dozens of tables of data document and create. Perhaps some further attention to who was representing the lordships discussed is warranted so as to balance http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 38: 2 – Jan 18, 2010
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2007
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0067-2378
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10.1017/S0067237800021603
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BOOK REVIEWS It is through this detailed analysis of sources such as estate registers (Grundbücher), seigneurial and village court protocols (Schöppenbücher), and tax records, as well as some royal administrative and (later) cadastral surveys, that these historians have attempted to reconstruct the workings of early mod- ern Bohemia’s social structures. Most of the articles mentioned above rely heavily on the Grundbücher. Th is important type of source has been discussed in detail by one of the contributors, Chocholác, in his “Grundbücher in Böhmen und Mähren,” (530–39 in Josef Pauser, et al., eds., Quellenkunde der Habsburger- monarchie (16.–18. Jahrhundert): Ein exemplarisches Handbuch [Vienna, 2004]). In the same handbook, contributor Štefanová includes a piece on the fascinating Schöppenbücher (ibid., 511–15.) In many cases, the sources allow only a schematic view, and oft en the forms outweigh the individuals involved in administering and experiencing the net of relationships and obligations, but the best articles in this important collection balance some type of structural analysis with individual case studies, which allow people to populate the forms that the dozens of tables of data document and create. Perhaps some further attention to who was representing the lordships discussed is warranted so as to balance

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Austrian History Yearbook – Cambridge University Press

Published: Jan 18, 2010

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