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The Challenges of Historiographic Research in Networking in the 18th- and 19th- Century Habsburg Monarchy (an Overview)

The Habsburg Monarchy was a very pluricultural space, with various languages, histories, political traditions, religions and diverse and changing national loyalties. A historian who wants to address mechanisms of transfer of ideas and knowledge in the Monarchy in the premodern period and to interpret interpersonal relations has to be prepared for a thorough and comprehensive study of archival sources of different provenance. The presentation is a brief account of the challenges faced by a researcher in Croatian history in his task to reconstruct the networking through music in the 18th and 19thcentury and, specifically, to examine the impact of musical and extra-musical contacts of musicians Luka Sorkočević and Franjo Ksaver Kuhač. These challenges refer to a scattered distribution of archival sources that are relevant for the research and a need for a complex analysis of sources that are generally speaking unsystematic and fragmentary. It will be argued that sources cannot only be used for providing data to detect models that are applicable to society as a whole in a certain period of time and that the historian should aim at detecting individual networking strategies, interaction between specific social ties or influences exerted by the behaviour of others.

HIstory of Networking, Social History, Croatian History, Habsburg Monarchy

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