The Bohemian Kingdom and the Mongol ʻinvasionʼ of 1241

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Bohemian Kingdom and the Mongol ʻinvasionʼ of 1241

Original language description

The paper deals with the facts and myth behind the Mongol ʻinvasionʼ of Moravia in 1241. 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

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

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe

ISBN

978-0-367-40932-6

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

119-133

Number of pages of the book

524

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon

UT code for WoS chapter

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