history – medieval(65)

Peasantry in the Cheb City-State in the Late Middle Ages

The medieval peasantry represents a particularly compelling unknown for historians, as it holds the key to understanding both later econo...

Socioeconomic Mobility and Migration

Husitství a husité

The book collects 16 previously published studies that have been supplemented and expanded for this collection so as to reflect the curre...

Ancient Weeds

The handbooks of literary studies usually tell us that the emergence of popular and junk literature is related to the emergence of modern...

Contours of Popular and Trash Literature in Ancient and Medieval Times

Dvě studie k pozdně středověké historiografii

As indicated by the title, the book contains two studies in the field of historiography. The first one focuses on late medieval official ...

Moc rituálů

Ritual forms of communication in the Middle Ages significantly shaped the public actions of the powerful. For a long time, this mode of c...

Symbolika a vláda ve středověku

Karel IV.

Charles IV (1316–1378) was king and emperor in a period when Christianity found itself in crisis and Europe was stricken by plague, the H...

Evropský císař

Mluvit mlčky

Sign language is an important phenomenon of monasticism which has existed for thousand years. The signs enable monks to pass an important...

Znaková řeč ve středověkých klášterech

Praha 15. století

The history of Prague in the 15th century is a history of conflicts, and these conflicts influenced the life of a majority of the inhabit...

Konfliktní společenství

Husitská revoluce I

The third, revised and expanded edition of Hussite Revolution by renowned medievalist František Šmahel is now available in two volumes an...

Kořeny české reformace

Fasciculus moralitatis

Primarily known as the author of the Dialogus miraculorum—a collection of exemplary stories that won Caesarius his reputation as the mast...

Omelie morales de infantia Saluatoris

Švamberkové v proměnách pěti století

Zánik a pustnutí venkovských sídlišť v pozdním středověku

Chebsko a Slavkovský les