The role of state and manorial cartography in rural society: comparing the Banat and the Kingdom of Hungary (1750–1850)
6. 3. 2024
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16:00 
room no. 205, Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Praha 1 
The lecture The role of state and manorial cartography in rural society: comparing the Banat and the Kingdom of Hungary (1750–1850) of Benjamin Landais (Avignon Université), organized by the Institute of History of the CAS, the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, and Avignon Université, supported by the Erasmus+ programme, will be held on 6th March 2024 from 16:00 in the room no. 205, Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Praha 1.
Despite the absence of cadastral survey, regardless of Joseph II‘s abortive initiative, maps were proliferating in the Hungarian countryside. The large estates had the means to recruit their own engineers. Maps played a role in securing property titles, beautifying aristocratic residences and modernising agriculture. More surprisingly, they also accompanied experiments in peasant land registration and agrarian reform. These undertakings were most advanced in Banat, where Bohemian and Austrian surveyors adopted administrative and economic patterns from the western Habsburg Monarchy.
Contact: vokurka@hiu.cas.cz
6. 3. 2024
,
16:00
room no. 205, Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Praha 1 