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This article attempts to reconstruct the course of preparations for the death, funeral and funeral ceremonies organized from 19 to 21 April 1673 in the Augustinian church in Vienna for the deceased Empress Margaret Theresa of Spain. With the help of historical- anthropological approaches and concepts of symbolic communication, the author monitors the formation of the social body of the ruler at the moment of her premature death, the last farewell and the subsequent obsequies in Vienna. In its analysis, it draws on a varied range of material, iconographic and written sources preserved in various European archives and libraries, but in particular on detailed descriptions by direct participants in these events, reports by foreign ambassadors to the court of Vienna, and burial sermons which have survived.
Rostislav Smíšek (Fri,) studied this question.