The author is looking for the first traces of self-government as "a way of managing a certain entity, when a given entity decides on at least some of its affairs by itself in an autonomous manner, i.e. "governs itself", in the Czech state of the High Middle Ages. These efforts were first manifested in the environment of the Bohemian magnates surrounding the monarch already during the reign of the Přemysl princes.
In the second half of the 13th century, the Czech aristocracy strove to manage "their things" more significantly