Stavovství, absolutismus a osvícenství v díle Rudolfa Vierhause. Význam německého historika nejen pro dějiny raného novověku

The study is devoted to the work of Rudolf Vierhaus, which may be divided into four fundamental parts reflecting his historiographical interest (Leopold von Ranke); his theoretical-philosophical interest (history of concepts and ideas), thereafter his interest in modern history (the issue of of a particular German path to modernity, the questions of Nazism and its roots) and primarily the Enlightenment as a cultural-historical process with its distinctive political and social connotations.