A History of the Czechs from the Great Moravian Empire until 1918
Brad Abrams
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WEEK 1 - 13 September. Introduction.
Reader:
Robert Paul Magocsi. Historical Atlas of East Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.
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WEEK 2 - 20 September. The Slav Migration into Central Europe. The Great Moravian Empire. The Pfiemyslids.
Readings:
Textbook: John F.N. Bradley. Czechoslovakia. A Short History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. 1-25.
Reader:
Jean W. Sedlar. East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. 3-7. Reader pages 1-3.
Frantiäek Kavka. An Outline of Czechoslovak History. Prague: Orbis, 1963. 18-9. Reader page 4.
Josef Poulílk. "Ancient Moravia in the Light of the Latest Archeological Discoveries." In: Jaroslav Böhm, et.al. The Great Moravian Empire. Thousand Years of State and Culture. Prague: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1963. 87, 91. Reader page 5.
Ján Dekan. Velká morava. Doba a uműní. [Great Moravia. The Times and the Art.] Praha: Odeon, 1985. 56-7, 84-5 and 128-9. Maps showing the Slav migration and the Czech conception of The Great Moravian Empire's location. Reader pages 6-9.
Imre Boba. Moravia's History Reconsidered. A Reinterpretation of Medieval Sources. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971. 1-20. Marked sections. Reader pages 10-20. Use the maps to see where Boba places the Empire.
Martin Eggers. Das «Großmährische Reich»: Realität oder Fiktion? [The "Great Moravian Empire": Reality or Fiction?] Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1995. 472. Map of where Eggers places the Empire. Reader page 21.
Duäan Tfiestík. "Velká Morava — zemű stűhovavá." [Great Moravia — The Migratory Land.] Lidové noviny. 20 December, 1995. 8 and Vladimír Podborsků. "Co dnes s Velkou Moravou?" [What About With Great Moravia Today?] Literární noviny 20 (15 May, 1996) 1, 3-4. Contemporary views of the Empire and discussion of Boba and Eggers. Reader page 22.
Lecture:
The Use and Abuse of the Great Moravian Empire and Saints Cyril and Methodius in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
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WEEK 3 - 27 September. John of Luxemburg. Charles the Fourth.
Readings:
Textbook: Bradley. 26-39.
Reader:
R.W. Seton-Watson. A History of the Czechs and Slovaks. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1965. 26-31. Reader pages 23-5.
R.R. Betts. "The University of Prague." In: R.R. Betts Essays in Czech History. London: Athalone, 1969. 1-12. Reader pages 26-32.
Lecture: The Medieval City and the Architecture of Charles the Fourth's Prague.
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WEEK 4 - 4 October. Václav IV. Zikmund (Sigmund, Sigismund). Jan Hus.
Readings:
Textbook: Bradley. 39-48.
Reader:
R.R. Betts. "The University of Prague: The First Sixty Years." In Betts. 25-7. Reader pages 33-4.
R.R. Betts. "Jan Hus." In: Betts. 176-94. Reader pages 35-44.
R.W. Seton Watson. 50-5. Reader pages 45-7.
Matthew Spinka. The Letters of John Hus. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1972. 106-8, 188-91, 193-7 and 206-7. Reader pages 48-55.
Tomáä G. Masaryk. "Jan Hus and the Czech Reformation." In: René Wellek, ed. The Meaning of Czech History. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. 3-14. Reader pages 56-62.
Lecture: Hussite Theology.
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WEEK 5 - 11 October. The Hussite Movement and the Hussite Wars.
Readings:
Textbook: Bradley. 49-56.
Reader:
R.W. Seton Watson. 56-75. Reader pages 63-72.
Frederick G. Heymann. John ÎiĎka and the Hussite Revolution. Princeton, New Jersey, 1955. 444-55. Reader pages 73-8.
Josef Macek. The Hussite Movement in Bohemia. Prague: Orbis, 1958. 93-106. Reader pages 79-86.
Lecture: Factions in the Hussite Movement.
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WEEK 6 - 11 October. Jifií (George) of Podűbrady. The Jagellonian Kings. The First Habsburg Rulers: Ferdinand, Maximilian and Rudolf.
Readings:
Textbook: Bradley. 59-79.
Reader:
Jean Bérenger. A History of the Habsburg Empire 1273-1700. London: Longman, 1994. 256-9. Reader pages 87-8.
Angelo Maria Ripellino. Magic Prague. London: Picador, 1995. 62-7 and 107-37. Reader pages 89-107.
Lecture: The History of the Jews of the Czech Lands.
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WEEK 7 - 18 October. Vacation. No Topic. Think About Whatever You Want.
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WEEK 8 - 25 October. The Thirty Years' War. The "Age of Darkness."
Readings:
Textbook: Bradley. 79-110.
Reader:
R.J.W. Evans. The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy 1550-1700. An Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon, 1979. 195-234. Marked sections. Reader pages 108-28.
Lecture: Chelăicků, Komensků and Nepomuk.
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WEEK 9 - 1 November. The National Revival.
Readings:
Textbook: Bradley. 111-23.
Reader:
Havránek?
Lecture: The Czech National Revival: Intellectuals (Dobrovsků, Kollár and Palacků) and Social Background.
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WEEK 10 - 8 November. The Revolution of 1848.
Readings:
Textbook: Bradley. 123-30.
Reader:
Robert A. Kann. The Multinational Empire. Nationalism and National Reform in the Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918. Volume 1. New York: Columbia University, 1950. 162-78. Reader pages 129-37.
Stanley Z. Pech. The Czech Revolution of 1848. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina, 1969. 333-54. Reader pages 138-49.
Kavka. 71-9. Reader pages 150-4.
Lecture. The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848.
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WEEKS 11-14 - 15 November - 6 December. The Nineteenth Century
In these weeks we will deal with a number of issues primarily concerning the nineteenth century, and you will be called upon to choose issues and present reports to the group. The texts that you will all be responsible for are the following:
Reader:
Seton-Watson. 196-249. Reader pages 155-81.
Kann. 178-215. Reader pages 182-200.
Ivan T. Berend and György Ránki. Economic Development in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York: Columbia University, 1974. 16-9, 24, 70-2, 112-22. Reader pages 201-11.
I will also give (perhaps) the following lectures:
1) The Nation Represents Itself: The Music of Smetana and Dvofiák and the Construction of the National Theater and Museum.
2) Tomáä G. Masaryk in the Nineteenth Century: The Hilsner and Manuscript Cases.
3) Czech Pan-Slavism after 1948.
4) The Debate Over the Meaning of Czech History: Pekafi, Masaryk and Nejedlů.
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WEEK 15 - 13 December. World War One and the Founding of Czechoslovakia.
Reader:
Victor S. Mamatey. "The Establishment of the Republic." In: Victor S. Mamatey and Radomír LuĎa, eds. A History of the Czechoslovak Republic 1918-1948. 10-38. Reader pages 212-26.
Edvard Beneä. Bohemia's Case for Independence. New York: Arno, 1971. Reprint of Edouard Beneä. Bohemia's Case for Independence. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1917. 53-62 and 73-5. Reader pages 227-34.
Piotr Wandycz. "Western Images and Stereoptypes of Central and Eastern Europe." In: André Gerrits and Nanci Adler, eds. Vampires Unstaked. National Images, Stereotypes and Myths in East Central Europe. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995. 11-2. Reader page 235.
Lecture: The Czechoslovak Legions.
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