Normalizace české medievistiky
Normalisation of Czech Medieval Studies

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with the influence of so called normalisation on Czech medievalist research in the 1970s and 1980s, examining the consequences of isolation imposed on research in Czechoslovakia with respect to new trends in its Western European counterparts, as well as stereotypical thinking, non participation in medievalist debates in the broader context, and the decline of topics that domi nated Czech medievalism in the 1960s. The article also considers how feelings of resignation influence conceptual thinking, linking it with the growth of subtopics during the period of normalisation. While medievalist research did gradually begin once more to thrive in the Czech environment of the 1980s, many problems – in the author’s opinion – were carried over in various ways to the post-1989 context, namely the insufficiency of methodological reflection, limitations with respect to theme, the marked absence of socio historical research, and a blind faith in the preservation of original sources.

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