Description
Few periods in Czech history evoke such contradictory judgments among historians as the post-Battle of White Mountain era. According to some, it was a tragic epoch associated with violent re-Catholicization and the emigration of elites. Others view it as a time of monumental Baroque culture and education, a period when the Czech lands reopened to the world and caught up with the delays caused by dramatic confessional and national conflicts. Regardless of evaluative perspectives, it is true that traces of Baroque are still unmistakable in the Czech landscape, and that the mission of the Society of Jesus was often accompanied by fervent patriotism, as evidenced by the work of the famous Jesuit historian Bohuslav Balbín. A clear and balanced view of the era, which we have come to call the darkness according to Jirásek's novel, is presented in the second volume of Brief Histories by historian Ivana Čornejová, a leading expert on the history of the Jesuit order and Prague University.
Information
Author: Čornejová Ivana
Publication date: May 26, 2022
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Paseka s. r. o.
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Books, History and facts
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 260
ISBN/EAN: 9788076372863