BEDŘICH SMETANA AND FRANTIŠEK PALACKÝ

Justin Fiacconi
Aug 31, 2018 · 6 min read

The glory days of Czech independence, in the early fifteenth century, did not have their roots in nationalism, but in religious fervour. For many years, there had been widespread corruption in the Roman Catholic Church, which was more avid of worldly power than of spiritual probity. This created pockets of disapproval rigorously quashed by the ecclesiastical authorities, who were not shy of using armed force as an argument…

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"Alphabeticon" is a series of small books about men and women, past and present, who have been important in various fields of human endeavour, such as the arts and sciences, politics, religion, sport, and so on. Each volume contains twenty-six chapters; alphabetically arranged.

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