Maria Nezbeda

February 15, 2019 | Maria Nezbeda | HI Research Blog |

The background to Jordanes' Getica, which was written in the middle of the 6^th century in Constantinopel, is quite complex. There have been discussions about it for decades or even centuries, because solid and confirmed information about the author, who was likely of Gothic origin himself, and his text is scarce. We know that...

David Kalhous

February 1, 2019 | David Kalhous | HI Research Blog |

Traditionally, authors of older national(istic) historiography often sought the origins of nations in medieval ethnic groups. In Czech historiography, the problem of the identity of the inhabitants of Bohemia before 1200 was neither questioned nor properly discussed, and the origins of a “Czech gens” were sought in the ninth or...