On the question of the formation of Byzantine studies in Czechoslovakia

Abstract

This article is devoted to the analyzis of the published correspondence of the prominent Czech Byzantines J. Bidlo and M.

Paulova and shows unsightly moments of the formation of Byzantine studies as a science in the Czechoslovak Republic.

Keywords

• medieval studies
• Byzantine studies
• the institutionalization of science
• science community
• self-criticism of science
• Russian emigration
• Czechoslovakia between two world wars