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Bohemi : Prozesse der Identitätsbildung in frühpřemyslidischen Ländern (bis 1200)

Legenda Christiani and modern historiography

"Legenda Christiani and Modern Historiography" focuses on the long history of the discussion over the authenticity of "Legenda Christiani, /i>, a crucial text for the medieval history of the Czech lands.

Anatomy of a duchy : the political and ecclesiastical structures of early Přemyslid Bohemia

In Anatomy of a Duchy David Kalhous analyses military, social and "ideological" factors which may have led to the stabilisation of the P?emyslid regnum in 10th and 11 th century.An analysis of the early Premyslid realm provides an opportunity for recognizing the importance of different factors involved in the formation of stable social structures in the early medieval regnum. The contemporary narrative emphasizes the importance of violence, where the Premyslid princes and their powerful retinues imposed princely will on elites and freemen in Bohemia and Moravia. However, our attention also turns to the problematic evidence of assumed powerful cavalry armies and the importance of communication between prince, elites and church, somewhat problematizing the role of violence as the primary tool of governance. Furthermore, an analysis of "otherness" in Saxon chronicles and a comparison of different traditions of St. Wenceslas and Great Moravia confirm the importance of the "Identitatsbildung"-process and "ideology" as stabilising factors in the new Premyslid regnum.

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