Jak se dělá historie: snění a psaní o šlechtě
How history is made: dreaming and writing about the nobility

Author(s): Radmila Švaříčková-Slabáková
Subject(s): History, Philosophy of History
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: history; nobility; historical texts;
Summary/Abstract: It has never ceased to amaze me how a historical text comes into existence. In the beginning, there is nothing, or almost nothing. Only a thought, an idea. We might even call this a dream or a desire. The desire to know what was previously unknown, to reveal the undiscovered, to bring to light what had previously been shrouded in darkness. Georges Duby, the famous French historian from the Annales School, had good reason to say that the historian had to dream – to dream seriously, but dream nevertheless. Because without these dreams, without fantasy, imagination, it would be difficult to conjure up an original historical publication.

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