The contributions by Czech and Polish historians share a common focus on the reception of Marxism in medieval studies in Czechoslovakia and Poland during the 1950s and 1960s. Particular attention is paid both to questions of ideology and to the reception of Marxism as an interpretative framework. In addition, through specific case studies, the authors demonstrate how medievalists engaged with Marxism as a social-scientific methodology in historical, archaeological, and art-historical research.
The comparative perspective adopted in these contributions seeks to explain the differences in the reception of Marxism in Czechoslovakia and Poland, while also illustrating how Marxism gradually lost its status as a party-bound doctrine in favour of increasing methodological pluralism.
Author(s):
Piotr Węcowski – Martin Nodl
Publisher: Filosofia
Edition: Colloquia mediaevalia Pragensia 22
Place: Praha
Year: 2020
Pages: 243
ISBN: 978-80-7007-647-7