PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Seichterová, Hana
TI  - Two Sixteenth-Century Instructions for Sub-Chamberlain of Moravia
DP  - 2017 Dec 11
TA  - Historica Olomucensia
PG  - 87--104
VI  - 53
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/ho.2017.027
IS  - 18039561
AB  - There are two instructions for the office of a sub-chamberlain which are preserved in the collection called The Bohemian section of the Court Chamber in the National Archive. The existing texts of instructions enable us to follow a process of their development. The instruction dated between 1564 and 1566 defines running sub-chamberlain's office in eight articles. The second one, which was written in Czech, describes the functioning of the office in 18 articles. The office of a sub-chamberlain had to respond to religious, economic and political transformations connected with a growing agenda as well as financial oppression - in point of fact, enlargement of the instructions reflects those changes. Taking into account preserved instructions, it is possible to observe what degree of requirement the king imposed on the sub-chamberlain's office. The codification of its content gradually restricted the influence of a sub-chamberlain on chamber's affairs, and on the contrary, it strictly defined its unenviable position in the political as well as confessional life of the country.