Service and education: the Royal Hungarian Bodyguard as a cultural institution in eighteenth-century Vienna

Service and education: the Royal Hungarian Bodyguard as a cultural institution in eighteenth-century Vienna

The Royal Hungarian Bodyguard, founded in 1760, was the first guard unit at the Viennese court to be recruited on a territorial basis and exclusively from noblemen. The establishment of the Guard served three purposes: to significantly increase the presence of Hungarians at court, to represent the m...

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Main Author: Zsolt Kökenyesi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cherepovets State University 2021-06-01
Series:Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории
Subjects:
habsburg court
hungarian nobility
maria theresa
knight academy
officer training
enlightened absolutism
noble education
Online Access:http://en.hpchsu.ru/archived-issues/the-journal-of-regional-history-v-5-no-2/service-and-education-the-royal-hungarian-bodyguard-as-a-cultural-institution-in-eighteenth-century-/

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