Creating a Cultural Identity: Religion and National Memory in Early Modern Bohemia (Research Brief)

After the traumatic shock of White Mountain many Czechs turned to the past as a means to understand and interpret their present. They adapted, modified and reformulated their native culture to serve the needs of both state and church. My study examines this process and seeks to understand how sites of national memory were fabricated in this period and contributed to the making of a new Czech identity.

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Howard Louthan, of the University of Notre Dame, was a 2001-02 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow.