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The Seven Years War (1756-1763) as a Cultural Zone of Entanglement: The Case Studies of the Croatian Captives

In Enlightenment studies, the methodology of the history of entanglement has been applied in the aspect of researching the Enlightenment as a cultural process. In this sense, historical entanglement implies the way in which the subject of historical research is constituted at the meeting point or intersection of different contexts. For the study of the entanglement process in the eighteenth century, the time of war events is particularly suitable due to the possibility of travel, which increased opportunities for the intercultural communication and various transfers between soldiers of different nationalities and cultural background. The experience of captured soldiers from the Croatian regions in the Seven Years War is particularly valuable. According to contemporaries, after their return to the homeland, the existing cultural paradigm changed due to cultural innovations such as planting potatoes, Freemasonry, but also undesirable atheism and libertinism. This was the result of the intensive communication with the officers and soldiers of other nations (both opponent and allied, e.g., both the Prussians and French) at the time of captivity which for individuals was paradoxically a period of intense cultural exchange and enlightenment.

Seven Years War, radical Enlightenment, cultural exchange, cultural transfer, Freemasonry

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