!!!Barockhistoriographie

Baroque Historiography: Historical research and writing experienced a 
peak in the 17%%sup th/%  and 18%%sup th/%  centuries and had as main 
sources firstly, courtiers, who produced contemporary emperors´ 
biographies (G. G. Priorato on Ferdinand III and 
Leopold I, G. P. Spannagel on Joseph I and 
Karl VI), secondly, the Estates, with authors such as G. A. 
v. Hoheneck, J. W. Valvasor, F. A. v. Brandis, and V. 
Preuenhuber. The third and most important source were writers from 
religious institutions, mostly monasteries, especially A. Schramb, P. 
Hueber, J. and B. Pez at Melk, G. Bessel at Goettweig, R. Duellius at 
St. Poelten, C. Hanthaler at Lilienfeld, and M. Herrgott in 
Vorder-Oesterreich (the westernmost possessions of the Austrian 
Habsburgs); the latters´ work is still an important source for 
contemporary scholarship.

!Literature
A. Lhotsky, Oesterr. Historiographie, 1962.


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