Space and identity in the Chronica Bohemorum of Cosmas of Prague

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Hasil, Jan
Space and identity in the Chronica Bohemorum of Cosmas of Prague.
Historiography and identity V: The emergence of new peoples and polities in Europe, 1000–1300. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022 - (Pohl, W.; Wieser, V.; Borri, F.), s. 179-202. Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 31. ISBN 978-2-503-58849-0. ISSN 1378-8779. E-ISSN 2294-8511.
[Historiographies of identity /7./. Historiography & identity in the new Europe c. 1000 – 1300. Vienna (AT), 02.11.2015-03.11.2015]
Research Infrastructure: AIS CR II - 90134
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : Cosmas of Prague * Middle Ages * Bohemia * space * landscape
OECD category: Archaeology

The Chronica Bohemorum, written by the dean of the Prague cathedral Cosmas (c. 1050–21 October 1125) in the final years of his life (after 1118), is not only one of the most important medieval literary sources to have been produced in the eastern part of Central Europe. It is the first and only narrative source covering the first two centuries of the existence of the Bohemian duchy, and thus provides many scholarly disciplines with unique evidence. Therefore, it could serve as a basis for the modern narrative of the origins and early development of the Bohemian duchy from the eighteenth century to the present day. It has not only been used and reused by historians and philologists, but also in historical geography and archaeology. The aim of this chapter is to trace how it has been or can be used to study the interactions between humans and the landscape, in other words, the spatial behaviour of past societies.
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