This representative collection of twenty-five thematically interconnected reflections, studies, and essays by a leading Czech historian—renowned both for the synthetic and monumental four-volume The Hussite Revolution and for The Idea of the Nation in Hussite Bohemia, a seminal work on medieval nationalism—brings together some of the finest contributions produced by Czech medieval studies over the past three decades.
These twenty-five texts rank among the most outstanding achievements of Czech medieval scholarship in recent decades. For a number of topics, they constitute virtually the only contributions within Czech historiography, including studies of the burials of Bohemian kings, rural literacy, prostitutes and clerical concubines, the relationship between text and image, religious tolerance, and the connections between Hussitism and humanism.
The volume From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance reflects a distinctive interdisciplinary approach that remains exceptional in the Czech scholarly context, drawing on insights from history, art history, anthropology, and archaeology.
Author(s):
František Šmahel
Publisher: Argo
Series: Historické myšlení
Language: Czech
Place: Prague
Year: 2002
Pages: 430
ISBN: 80-7203-426-X