Milada Paulová a pražská univerzita: historická slavistika
Milada Paulová and the Prague University: Historical Slavic Studies

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this contribution is the academic career of Czech historian Milada Paulová, the first woman who managed to reach the highest academic ranks in Czechoslovakia. Milada Paulová focused on modern history, on mapping anti-Habsburg resistance in the Czech Lands and in countries, which later formed Yugoslavia. Following the wishes of Jaroslav Bidlo, she was also active in Byzantine studies. Her interest in recent history provoked a number of questions, such as: Is the study of recent past really a science? Can one apply to it traditional scientific methods and maintain scientific independence of political pressures? Milada Paulová’s interest in the subject was fully vindicated only after the Second World War, when modern history became an independent area within the historical sciences.

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