Being a student in the Habsburg monarchy. Introduction

This essay is an introduction to a collection of papers that discuss the (proto-) modern school system in various parts of the Habsburg Monarchy during the 18th and 19th centuries from the perspective of students or their teachers. While the research on the history of education and schooling in East Central Europe has mainly focused on the topic in terms of political aspects of education, this collection of papers aims at weakening the influence of this perspective by placing the social, cultural or anthropological aspects of the student's life at the centre of the analysis. The papers were presented at the international conference Being a Student in the Habsburg Monarchy organised by the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb from 18th to 19th May 2017.