Forging the Past: Facts and Myths behind the Mongol Invasion of Moravia in 1241

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Result on the web
<a href="http://goldhorde.ru/en/stati2018-2-2/" target="_blank" >http://goldhorde.ru/en/stati2018-2-2/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2018-6-2.238-251" target="_blank" >10.22378/2313-6197.2018-6-2.238-251</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Forging the Past: Facts and Myths behind the Mongol Invasion of Moravia in 1241
Original language description
There are two research objectives to this study. The first is to survey the events of the Mongol invasion of Moravia in the spring of 1241 and the second is to examine how the story changed over the following centuries. The myth surrounding the Mongol invasion lost its grounding in fact, and different versions of the story quickly arose. In this paper, I will explain when, why and how the story was changing. Since the Mongol myth became the subject of 19th century forgeries, many scholars were misled by them; as a result the forged documents are presented as trustworthy sources even by renowned contemporary scholars. Consequently, the actual events of 1241 undergo dramatic changes. The invasion – presented at times as a catastrophe – was in reality merely the brief passage of Mongol troops through Moravian territory. Later chroniclers confused this event with the Hungarian invasion of Moravia in 1253. Soon, a fictional victory at Olomouc was invented; later, an imaginary hero was added (Jaroslav of Sternberg) and the story transformed in the 2nd half of the 17th century into an account of a religious miracle, later becoming a key part of the 19th century forgeries that exaggerated the country’s glorious national past by inventing sources that had never, in reality, existed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
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
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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