Geschichte von Böhmen
Grösstentheils nach urkunden und handschriften

The Czech historian František Palacký gives a detailed account of Bohemian history, published in German in ten parts (1836–67).

František Palacký (Author)

9781108055017, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

490 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.62 kg

A highly influential Czech historian and politician, František Palacký (1798–1876) became in 1825 the first editor of the journal of the Bohemian Museum, a key cultural institution in the development of Czech nationalism. He was actively involved in the nineteenth-century Czech national revival, helping also to found the Czech national theatre. Entering politics in 1848, he served as president of the Prague Slavic Congress, and later became a member of the Austrian senate as a supporter of greater Czech autonomy. In this extensive work, comprising ten separate parts - published in German between 1836 and 1867 - Palacký gives a detailed account of Bohemian history until 1526. It remains an important and ambitious feat of scholarship, still relevant to students of central European history. Volume 5 covers the era of the Jagiellonian dynasty; this first part (1865) deals with the era of Vladislaus II from 1471 to 1500.

Eilftes Buch. König Wladislaw II (1471–1500): 1. Wahl und Krönung Wladislaws II (Jahr 1471)
2. Unentschiedene Kämpfe und Unterhandlungen zwischen den Königen (Jahre 1471–5)
3. Zweispaltung der böhmischen Krone (Jahre 1475–9)
4. Böhmens tiefster Fall - Abschluss alter und Beginn neuer Wirren (Jahre 1479–85)
5. Versetzung des Landvolkes in den Zustand der Leibeigenschaft, Tod des Königs Mathias (Jahre 1485–90)
6. Wladislaw König von Ungarn (Jahre 1490–4)
7. Der Adel auf der Höhe seiner Rechtsstellung (Jahre 1494–1500).

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]