The book traces the changes in perceptions and interpretations of profiled historical personalities (Přemysl Otakar II., Charles IV and Jiří of Poděbrady, Jan Žižka, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, St. Wenceslas, and Kubata the fast man) and... more
The book traces the changes in perceptions and interpretations of profiled historical personalities (Přemysl Otakar II., Charles IV and Jiří of Poděbrady, Jan Žižka, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, St. Wenceslas, and Kubata the fast man) and phenomena (relationship to the monarchy, Hussitism, rural emancipation, Czech-German relations, Czech society's attitude to the Church and its symbols, family memory and its public manifestations) in the Czech historical tradition from the late 18th century to the first quarter of the 20th century. The text deals primarily with the actualizing potential of these figures and phenomena as sites of memory in the Czech national-emancipation movement of the 19th century and in the very process of the formation of the modern Czech nation.
