Duke Wenceslas and the possible reasons for his assassination in the context of the social transformations of the central Bohemian territory in the first third of the tenth century

Tomáš Petráček

Faculty of Education of the University Hradec Králové

Abstract

In this paper the author analyses sources of the tenth century to reconstruct the social history of Bohemian territory in a period of transition towards a centralised state organisation and develops a new theory on the possible reasons for the assassination of Duke Wenceslaus in the year 935.

Keywords:

Duke Wenceslaus, Bohemia, 10th Century, history