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Friedrich Prinz,
Deutsche Geschichte im Osten Europas: B
hmen und Mähren
(Berlin, 1994).
Robert William Seton-Watson,
A History of Czechs and Slovaks
(Hamden, Conn., 2nd ed. 1965).
Samuel Harrison Thompson,
Czechoslovakia in European History
(Hamden, Conn., 1965).
Rudolf Wolkan,
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur in Böhmen und in den Sudetenländem
(Augsburg, 1925).
 
My favorite discussions of national problems include Eva Hahnová,
Sudeton
mecký problem: Obtižné lou
ení s minulostí
(Prague, 1996); Jan K
en,
Konflikni Spole
enství:
eši a N
mci
1784-1918 (Prague, 2nd ed. 1990); Podiven ( - Milan Otáhal. Petr Pithart, and Petr Príhoda),
eši v d
jinách nové doby
(Prague, n.d.); Emanuel Rádl,
Válka
ech
s N
mci
(Prague, 1928), German translation 1928; Christian Willars, Die
böhmische Zitadelle
(Munich, 1965); Ferdinand Seibt,
Deutschland und die Tschechen
(Munich, 2nd ed. 1995); and Elizabeth Wiskemann,
Czechs and Germans
(Oxford, 1938, 2nd ed., 1967).
1. LIBUSSA, OR VERSIONS OF ORIGIN
What the Schoolchildren Learn
Alois Jirásek’s novels were part of the socialist realist canon just a few years ago and available in many translations, e.g.,
Bðhmens alte Sagen,
trans. by Hans Gaertner (Prague, 1957, 2nd ed. 1975). More recently,
Old Czech Legends,
trans. by Marie K. Hole
ek (London, 1972), with a useful introduction. Important general information in Jaroslava Janá
ková,
Alois Jirásek
(Prague, 1987), especially on the legends, pp. 237-43.
 
What Archaeologists and Historians Believe
With rare exceptions, archaeological literature about Prague has been published in Czech or German (occasionally with summaries in English or Russian).
Ivan Borkovský,
Levý
Hradec (Prague, 1965), and Pražský
Hrad
(Prague, 1969), both authoritative, with illustrations and German summary.
Francis Dvorník,
The Making of Central and Eastern Europe
(Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1974), and
The Slavs: Their Early History and Civilization
(Boston, 1956), are magisterial exceptions.
Jan Filip,
Prav
ké
eskoslovensko
(Prague, 1948), an older Czech standard text.
Ladislav Hrdli
ka, “Nástin vývoje reliéfu historického jádra Prahy ve st
edovêku,”
Archaeologica Pragensia,
5 (1984), 197—209.
Ji
í Neústupný,
Czechoslovakia Before the Slavs
(London, 1961)
Luboš Pok,
Fraganeo
(Prague, 1990), challenging
Hellmut Preidel,
Die Anfänge der slawischen Besiedlung Böhmens und Mährens
(Gräfelfing, 1954-57), 2 vols , is the standard German text.
Reinhold Trautmann,
Die slawischen Völker und ihre Sprachen
(Göttingen. 1947), pp. 21-26, still highly instructive.
Rudolf Turek,
Cechy na
svit
d
jin
(Prague, 1963), German edition:
Böhmen im Morgengrauen der Geschichte
(Wiesbaden, 1974).
 
The Fortunes of Libussa
Bertold Bretholz (ed.),
Cosmae Pragensis Chronaca Bohemorum,
(Berlin, 1923) -
Monumenta Germaniae
Historica,
Scriptores rerum Germanicarum,
N.S., t. II.
Commentaries on Cosmas: Dušan T
eštík,
Kosmas
(Prague, 1966), and Josef Hemmerle, “Cosmas von Prag,” in
Lebensbilder zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder,
4 (Munich, 1981), 23—48.
František Graus,
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Überlieferung im Mittelalter und in den Vorstellungen vom Mittelalter
(Cologne and Vienna, 1985).
Thomas M Greene,
Besieging the Castle of
the
Ladies,
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Binghamton and New York, 1995), Occasional Papers, No. 4
Vladimír Karbusický,
Anfänge der historischen Uberlieferung in Böhmen
(Cologne and Vienna, 1980). The new Czech edition, 1995, is still rejected by the old establishment and its young allies.

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