English Translation

49 - 3 - the place to examine the sociological backgrounds of this phenomenon. Only a few clues are allowed: once the socially balanced conditions in the German Etbländer, with its never completely immersed in the peasantry, - the there nevertheless existing city system and citizen doing, but then the Kvölkische homogeneity, the formation and thus also the conclusion of an aristocracy comparable to the Bohemian and Hungarian nobility prevented. II. On the other hand, the influence of the new Habsburg rule on the aristocracy began at the meeting of the three later principal components of the monarchy, especially in Bohemia (Hungary was one third behind Vienna during the entire tutch wars). eorse According to his political prehistory, up to this time the Bohemian nobility has a strong relationship with the analogue eastern relations of about five Central Europe. We see a divorce in high and lower , and especially the latter is, as in our time e.g. the Hungarian Gentry, the main bearer of the national tradition. In keeping with the nature and the entire historical situation of Bohemia, this movement moves on two sides, the national and the denominational. The Czech lower nobility, in particular, was regarded as the defender of the national-Czech and at the same time anti-Catholic ideals. The new situation of domination automatically also draws the lines of the new political fronts. They are determined by two opposites. Habsburg derives from his world given by the Spanish Pamilian connection - - 4 -