The Phenomenon of the White Mountain in the Process of Modern Czech National and State Formation
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | LA CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA DELLA VITTORIA A ROMA UNA TESTIMONIANZA FONDAMENTALE DELLA STORIA EUROPEA : Nella ricorrenza dei 400 anni dalla dedica della chiesa alla Madonna vincitrice della battaglia della Montagna Bianca 6 - 7 maggio 2022 Volume secondo Da Lepanto a Bila Hora – Maria “potens in proelio” |
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| Keywords | Battle of White Mountain; White Mountain clearance; formation of Czechoslovakia; ideology; historiography; Liechtenstein; modern nation |
| Description | The contribution addresses the importance of the Battle of the White Mountain in the process of Czech national and Czech state building in the late 19th and early 20th century. of the 20th century. As early as 1895, when the birth of the Czechoslovak state was still uncertain, the philosopher Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850 - 1937), the future first president of the Czechoslovak republic, formulated a theory that excluded from the Czech nation the three pillars of the Habsburg state: the nobility, the Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy, and the cultural obscurantism produced by the combination of the Counter-Reformation and political Absolutism. This cultural, political and religious paradigm, imposed on the Czech nation after the Battle of the White Mountain White Mountain, created social inequalities, slowed down modernisation of the country, prevented the development of a Czech cultural programme. |