Husitství, historismus a hledání národních dějin : (na příkladu próz Poslední orebita a Poslední táborita)
Hussites, historicism and the search for national history : (a look at The Last of the Orebites and The Last of the Taborites)

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the approaches to the themes of governance, state and society as explored in two prose texts from the Vormärz period written by authors from the Bohemian lands, Jan Erazim Vocel's short story The Last of the Orebites and Karl Herloßsohn's novel The Last of the Taborites. Set in the medieval Hussite era and steeped in romantic historicist aesthetics, the two texts reflect the authors' political attitudes to questions important to early 19th century society in the Bohemian lands and Austria in general. The questions of conflict, dialogue and conciliation between nations, faiths and social classes are evoked within larger idealist constructions in which aesthetic conventions associated with romanticism carry narratives with Biedermeier and loyalist overtones.

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