Rotating Spheres
Gendered Commemorative Practice at the 1903 Jan Hus Memorial Festival in Prague
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11048281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cynthia Paces (College of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-539 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713687481 |
| OpenAlex | W2095281640 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
It will be a memorable day for every Czech. In 1903, former mayor Dr Jan Podlipný used these words to petition the Prague City Council to finance a nationalist festival dedicated to the memory of Jan Hus. Arguing for a celebration devoted to the fifteenth-century priest and church reformer who had become a nationalist icon in the nineteenth century, Podlipný emphasized the “memorable” quality of the planned event. 2 Indeed, the purpose of the celebration was to create memory on several levels. The festival itself would gather Czechs in great numbers, creating a memory of a shared community, which would bolster the Czech nationalist spirit for future campaigns. The festival's purpose was to lay a cornerstone to a Jan Hus Memorial, a monument that would etch a permanent memory of Jan Hus into Prague's landscape. Last, by publicly and collectively commemorating Hus, Czech nationalists would create a shared memory of the nation's past
Art · Art history · Cornerstone · Czech · Fifteenth · Historical memory · Humanities · Icon · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Central European national history · Classics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |