Teodora Shek Brnardi, Croatian Institute of History

The Seven Years War

as a Space of
Enlightenment:
The Croatian Officers as
Cultural Transmitters
Rotterdam, 30th July 2015
Barry Lyndon (by Stanley Kubrick,
1975)
 The Ambiguous Nature of the Seven Years
War
WAR AS A DEATHMACHINE

It is undoubtedly such a nice

art, which desolates fields,
demolishes houses, and during
one single year takes 40,000
out of 100,000 human lives.
(War, Voltaires Philosophical
Dictionary, 1764)

VOLTAIRE (
WAR AS A SPACE FOR CIRCULATION OF BOOKS
AND CULTURAL TRANSFER

Officers, who were

dismissed after
disbanding the army, and
those who were released
out of captivity, after
having paid off their
creditos, would return to
the homeland. Upon their
BALTAZAR ADAM return home they
KRELI imported
Annuae sive into Croatia
historia, 1763
(1715-1778)
many good and bad
books.
 WAR AS A SCHOOL

During the last Prusian

war, which started in
1756 and ended in 1763,
and which was nothing
else than a school
especially for young
people during the seven
years of its duration , an
opportunity offered itself
to pass through vilayets,
MATIJA ANTUN countries, and cities for
RELKOVI free to those who could
(1732- The Satyre or the Wild Man,
not otherwise
Dresden, 1762 do it
without considerable
 LEISURE TIME IN CAPTIVITY
LEARNING LANGUAGES: a) French; B)
German

ACQUIRING CROATIAN LITERACY

Bla Tadijanovi, A Little of

Everything, 1761
LEISURE TIME IN CAPTIVITY
JOINING MILITARY MASONIC LODGES
THE CULTURAL INFLUENCE OF
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR IN
CROATIA

JOSIP KAZIMIR DRAKOVI

Xellimti dobro zdravje, i dugg xivota alli odbar, i dase skorro oslobodisch od
suxanstva.

I wish you good health, and a long, but good life, and that you
sonn free yourself from captivity!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!