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=== Description === | === Description === | ||
[[Image:1651 census of Podebrady.jpg|right| | [[Image:1651 census of Podebrady.jpg|right|400px|1651 Census of Podebrady]] | ||
The standardized form was organized in columns. The enumerator was suppose to write down each person's name, social status, occupation, age, religious affiliation, and the family status of all members of each household, including all servants and farm laborers. | The standardized form was organized in columns. The enumerator was suppose to write down each person's name, social status, occupation, age, religious affiliation, and the family status of all members of each household, including all servants and farm laborers. | ||
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The closing footnotes in the registers give us a very vivid depiction of the actual situation on each estate in the middle of the seventeenth century Bohemia. General chaos and a desperate situation emerge very clearly - ravaged villages, burned-down churches and rectories, homeless people, wartime misery, and outbreaks of plague in 1640s. | The closing footnotes in the registers give us a very vivid depiction of the actual situation on each estate in the middle of the seventeenth century Bohemia. General chaos and a desperate situation emerge very clearly - ravaged villages, burned-down churches and rectories, homeless people, wartime misery, and outbreaks of plague in 1640s. | ||
In conclusion, we can state that the Bohemian ''Register of Subjects According to Their Religion'' accomplished its purpose. It mapped out the "terrain" of Bohemia in 1651 and provided a certain basic foundation of information which the ecclesiastical hierarchy needed in order to make progress with re-Catholization and obtain restitution of church property. | In conclusion, we can state that the Bohemian ''Register of Subjects According to Their Religion'' accomplished its purpose. It mapped out the "terrain" of Bohemia in 1651 and provided a certain basic foundation of information which the ecclesiastical hierarchy needed in order to make progress with re-Catholization and obtain restitution of church property. | ||
=== Publication === | === Publication === | ||