The church administration in the Josephian period and the influence of the Patent of Toleration on the Czech rural area

The bachelor thesis which is focused on the period with the focal point in the year 1781 follows up mainly the memoirs of burghers and priests of Pelhřimov in the pre-toleration and the early toleration period enriched with the religious sources and sources of the town council. The crucial aim of this thesis is to chart the influence of the Patent of Toleration and the reaction to its issue. The first chapter deals with the space in the triangle defined with the terms: religion, state and church. On the basis of the works by Zdeněk R. Nešpor, Eva Melmuková, Rudolf Zubera , Bohumil Zlámal and others I try to fill in this space with the mosaic of the chosen aspects of the human being and to look into the lives which are noted in the memoirs of the burgers of Pelhřimov, namely Filip Ignác Dremsa and Antonín Štěpán, the vicar Vincenc Josef Rubricius, the dean Vojtěch Holý and the pastor Jan Szalatnay from Moraveč. This is the main interest of the second chapter. Their issued memoirs became the basis source for this bachelor thesis, futhermore, the archives of the Office of Vicar in Pelhřimov, the Parish Office Nová Cerekev and the Archive of the town Pelhřimov saved in the State Districtual Archive Pelhřimov. These sources, together with the issued works concerning this topic, enabled me to look at the Patent of Toleration from a different point of view and the perception of it by the ordinary people at the turn of the 18th and 19th century