Publication details
Budování monarchie českých Přemyslovců. Postřehy a úvahy
| Title in English | Building the monarchy of the Czech Přemyslids. Observations and reflections |
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This work studies the reasons that lead the historians Dušan Třeštík and Josef Žemlička to develop the thesis a central European model, which allegedly predominated in the Czech lands, Poland and Hungary based on the state bureaucracy that was thought to exit in the Frankish empire at the time of the last Carolingians. This model of centralised government is supposed to have been transmitted through the state known as Great Moravia. The „Central European model“ with all its attributes was strongly influenced by the era which it was developed (the 1960s to the 1980s) and the dominant communist ideology og those times and was also intended to accomodate the nacionalisti Czech koncept of the state shaped and bulit by the Czech Přemyslids. From a critical point of view, howewer, the early Přemyslid monarchy was not very different from other states in western and central Europe; to some extent it was dependent on foreign models, including perhaps Carolingian (Bavarian) but more libely Saxon precendents. |
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