Snový svět idejí a syrovost skutečnosti: městská historiografie raného novověku jako utopie?

• Authors: Miller J.

Title variants

EN

A DREAM WORLD OF IDEAS AND HARSHNESS OF REALITY: EARLY MODERN URBAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AS AN UTOPIA?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study advocates the thesis in a broadly understood genre of Early Modern Age urban historiography that there was inherently present, alongside the positive realistic level of communication, a normative utopian level, which mediated a vision of the ideal urban republic. The author supports this thesis through textual analysis and the comparison of urban historiographic texts with contemporary utopian works. The study further establishes that the image of the perfect mediaeval and Early Modern Urban Community, characterized by shared values and opinions, harmony, unity and order, had been influenced by Plato and Aristotle's deliberations on an ideal political and social order.

Keywords

EN

EARLY MODERN AGE; URBAN HISTORIOGRAPHY; UTOPIA

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 261-287
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Miller J.

• J. Miller, Katedra historie, Filozoficka fakulta UP v Olomouci, Krizkovskeho 8, 771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republik

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA04789099