Description
Cultural relations through viticulture across borders
Wine has been part of European history and culture for thousands of years. It has always been a part of life not only for the elites, but for all social groups. It connects the history of the traditional agrarian societies of the Middle Ages and early modern times with the modern age.
The cultivation of wine has had a decisive influence on social and cultural structures as well as demographic and anthropological conditions and has contributed significantly to the mutual relations between ethnic groups and nations in Central Europe (including the Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Austrians and Liechtensteiners).
The conference "In vino cultura" dealt with the history of wine in Central Europe using socio-historical, cultural-historical and anthropological methods. The Liechtenstein-Czech Historical Commission, the German-Czech and German-Slovak Historical Commissions and the Standing Conference of Austrian and Czech Historians took part in the event. It thus encompassed the geographical region of southern Moravia, Lower Austria and south-western Slovakia and, within a broad "pan-European" framework, also references to the Liechtenstein and German Rhine region in particular.
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