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And There Is No New Thing under the Sun. What Is It We Actually Write and for Whom?

Marginal Notes on a Review by Antonie Doležalová

Summary/Abstract: In response to a review of his biography of the Czech historian Václav Chaloupecký (1882–1951), Václav Chaloupecký: Hledání československých dějin (Prague: Karolinum, 2014), published in the previous issue of this journal (Antonie Doležalová, ‘Hledání Václava Chaloupeckého’, Soudobé dějiny, vol. 23 (2016), nos. 1–2, pp. 211–16), the author discusses the problem of composing a historical text built on primary sources and, in connection with that, the reception, both in the field and amongst the general public, of contemporary Czech historiography. He also considers the limits of, and changes in, the popularization of the results of historical research.

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