První česká království
| Title in English | The First Kingdoms of Bohemia |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The complex relationship of the first Bohemian kingdoms to the values of ducal Bohemia is one of the important, but nevertheless somewhat neglected topics of critical historiography. Earlier research had indeed been able to identify the legitimising role of Přemyslid mythology and also in part of the symbolics and rituals of ducal Bohemia, but here research stalled and for this reason it is not clear what the ideological and policy basis of the first Bohemian kingdoms was, that is, of Vratislav (1085/6-1092) and Vladislav (1158-1173), and for this reason it is not entirely clear why these kingdoms were rejected by the Czech lords and why it was only the concept of Přemysl Otakar I that was eventually successful (from 1198). Research thus defined, based on comparison of the values of ducal and royal Bohemia respectively, offers hitherto unused possibilities for understanding the development and changes in sovereign power, rituals, symbolics and places of memory, not only in the Bohemian context, but also in that of wider Central Europe. |
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