Das Reich und Böhmen um die erste Jahrtausendwende

Abstract

The review of an often-debated topic relies on a very broad theoretical reevaluation of basic ideas of political power, relationships and concepts. Author proposes a broad summary of the nature of power and government in Central Europe in the given period. The development of the political power in Bohemia and its relation to the imperial world is put in the context of the other Central European states. The relationship is described since its very beginnings in 805, although the first century gives us only a very limited number of sources. Later contacts such as the church connections, possible regular payments from Bohemia, the possibility of a regular feudal oath are thoroughly described by the author. Bohemia is then understood as a part of a broader imperial world, almost similarly to the other duchies of the Empire. This position could be also beneficial for the building of the political power of the Přemyslids.