Where the Middle Ages Begin
The History of Literature in the Context of New Theoretical Proposals Lipatow, Aleksander PORÓWNANIA 5 (2008) Abstract In the beginning of the Middle Ages with the growth of the Christian ecumene and a related ecclesiastical, and institutional differentiation and a following cultural and political differentiation localized around the two centres – Byzantium and Rome – […]
Haskins Conference Papers: Cosmas on the See of Prague Lisa Wolverton (University of Oregon) Summary This paper considers the history of the bishopric of Prague written by Comas circa 1120. Comas used historical narrative to write a stinging critique of Czech politics. The dispute over Moravia coincided with the Investiture Contest yet Cosmas makes no […]
Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia By Thomas A. Fudge I.B.Tauris, 2010 ISBN: 9781848851429 A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official Church and helped to change the face of medieval Europe. A key figure in the history of Europe and Christianity and a catalyst for religious […]
The target of St Adalbert mission and the place of his martyrdom. A new hypothesis By Leszek Pawel Slupecki Medieval Europe Paris 2007, 4th International Congress of Medieval and Modern Archaeology (2007) Introduction: St Adalbert (better known under his Slavic name Wojciech) is first patron saint of Poland. Contrary to other national patron saints of […]
The 1335 Meeting of Kings in Visegrad By Sławomir Gawlas The Visegrad Group: A Central European Constellation, ed. by Andrzej Jagodziński (Bratislava, 2006) Introduction: For the entire month of November 1335 in Visegrad the meeting of the Central-European kings took place: the Hungarian king Charles Robert, king of Bohemia John of Luxembourg, his son Charles, the […]
Urbanisation of high-medieval Moravia during the 13th century contribution of archaeology By Rudolf Procházka Medieval Europe Paris 2007, 4th International Congress of Medieval and Modern Archaeology (2007) Introduction: It was about fifty years ago that the modern archaeological research of high (late)-medieval towns and early town agglomerations of the 11th – 12th/13th centuries started in Moravia […]
The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague By Lisa Wolverton Catholic University of America Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8132-1570-9 The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, and narrated in high rhetorical style. Regarded as the foundational narrative of Czech history, […]
The Role of the Town in the Bohemia of the Later Middle Ages By Frederick G. Heymann Journal of World History / Cahiers d’Histoire Mondiale, Vol. 2 (1955) Introduction: There is more than one reason why the early history of Bohemia’s cities, and of the middle class that developed them during the later Middle Ages, […]
The oldest records of tornado occurrence in the region can be found in chronicles from the first half of the 12th century – the two most interesting of these are presented here in translation from the original Latin texts.
Medieval Crafts, Guilds and Industrial Development: Central-Western European Comparison By Ian Blachard Lecture given at the Medieval Economic History of Hungary as reflected by archaeology and material culture (Institute of Archaeology, Budapest, 2005) Introduction: For a brief moment at the end of the thirteenth century the Central European population’s interest suddenly focussed on a remote mountain […]
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