História zadnými dverami 2 (slovensky) – Michálek Slavomír (2020)

Our history is full of bizarre events, mistakes, awkward moments, and curiosities. And it has never been straightforward. How the nobility lived, how they dressed, and what they ate, or what men and women from under the Tatras or other worlds experienced when they were not posing for cameras for the future in the democratic interwar Czechoslovak Republic. By the way, even in that interwar Czechoslovakia, not everything was ideal and rosy, and the Middle Ages were not as dark as one might think. In the second part of History Through the Back Door, authored again by historians from the Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, you will find a wide range of topics from obscure healing practices to educational practices at royal courts, as well as bizarre events that occurred in old noble families. Readers will encounter wandering monk-travelers, Casanova, Mrs. Sacherová, and fighters for abstinence in Slovak villages and towns afflicted by alcoholism. The authors, however, did not overlook more recent history, remembering the Slovak State of 1939 (and what preceded it) and the short wartime period, which is also rich in interesting topics and absurdities, while also addressing the Czechoslovak dimension of this time period. And on top of all that, they add many other texts from the era...