Traces and Clues in a Fairytale: Research Based on a “Weird” Historical Source

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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004726710_010" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004726710_010</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004726710_010" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004726710_010</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Traces and Clues in a Fairytale: Research Based on a “Weird” Historical Source
Original language description
This essay focuses on one specific moment of the author's research, which was centered upon the last seven years of the life of Hugo Vavrečka (1880-1952). Before and during World War II, Vavrečka belonged to the Czechoslovak elite circles, whose paths also crossed the line of the Havel family when his daughter married Václav M. Havel. He had two grandsons, one of whom was Václav Havel, the first Czechoslovak president after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. In the post-war world, though, Vavrečka lost his elite status, as he was accused of collaboration with the Nazis, for which he was later wrongfully sentenced to prison and confiscation of all property. Several sources are available for this period, but only a few of them capture the perspective of the historical actor - except a fairytale he wrote in March 1945 for his grandson. The author, therefore, explores the possibilities of using this 'weird' historical source and illustrates applying Carlo Ginzburg's method of traces and clues to it.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Biography across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders
ISBN
978-90-04-72669-7
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
172-186
Number of pages of the book
299
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS chapter
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