Description
This representative overview of the work of Josef Pekař (1870–1937), the greatest Czech modern historian, is intended to be an essential tool for those who want to familiarize themselves with Pekař's objective and readable interpretation of Czech history in a nutshell. Pekař presents ancient events to the contemporary reader in a very dramatic and unconventional way, always considering all the essential facts. He clarifies all the confused struggles over the significance of the Battle of White Mountain, Hus, Žižka, St. Wenceslas, and Kristian, and explains the periodization of Czech history primarily as a cultural history of epochs – Gothic, Renaissance, or Baroque. He emphasizes the heterogeneity of historical contexts, which cannot be fitted into a unified national ideology. Transferring difficult-to-understand disputes and passions from distant times into contemporary national life is detrimental, even though it is paradoxically the "meaning of history" of national existence, which is so much older than the national state.
Information
Author: Pekař Josef
Publication date: August 22, 2019
Manufacturer: LEDA spol. s r. o.
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Non-fiction literature, Books, History and facts
Pages: 368
ISBN/EAN: 9788073356156