Prague exhibition marks 900 years since the death of medieval chronicler Cosmas

Photo: Kosmas 900 / Czech National Library

A new exhibition on Cosmas opens tonight in the Mirror Chapel of Prague’s Klementinum, marking 900 years since the death of the country’s most famous chronicler and author of Chronica Boemorum (the Chronicle of the Bohemians), the first written account of Czech history.

“In Europe is situated Germania, in whose regions, across the northern plain, is a place spread very wide, girded everywhere by mountains in a circle.

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Author: Ruth Fraňková