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Author Klápště, Jan

Title The Czech lands in medieval transformation / by Jan Klápště ; translated by Sean Mark Miller and Kateřina Millerovǎ ; edited by Philadelphia Ricketts
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxviii, 524 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 1872-8103 ; v. 17
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 17.
Contents Introductory Note; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Map; Places Index; Chapter One The Middle Ages-Distant and Close; 1. The Wedding Picture of Saint Hedwig; 2. An Invitation to Wiprecht of Groitzsch; Chapter Two Transforming the Might of the Mighty; 1. Great Moravian Beginnings; 2. Epilogue of the 'Warrior Graves'; 3. The Residences of Dukes and Bishops, as well as of the Other Elite; 4. Quod autem mea ecclesia hodie habet, auferendi dux potestatem non habet; 5. The First Evidence of the Property of the Nobles; 6. Travels with Bishop Daniel
7. Kin-Group Beginnings in Prčice8. Hroznata of Teplá and His Property Declaration; 9. Leo de Klobuc or an Official's Path to Property; 10. Zbraslav, Pincerna Regis, and His Guests; 11. Seeking the Right Address; 12. The Residences of the Lords in the Environs of the Castle Centres; 13. Twice at Kojata's from the Hrabiše Family; 14. Hageno de Zvethiz and the Others; 15. The Spectacular Pride of the Aristocratic Castles; 16. Fortified Manors or a Eulogy to Ingenuity; Chapter Three The Frail Certainties of the Rural Milieu; 1. The Long Slow Course of Medieval Settlement
2. The Villages of the Early Middle Ages3. This World and the Other World; 4. The Improvement of Land as a System; 5. The Henryków Book and Its Report on the Colonisation Period; 6. Transformations of the Central European Village in the Archaeological Evidence; 7. Seeking the Legal Framework for the Transformation of the Village in the Czech Lands; 8. Where the Place Name 'Lhota' Came From; 9. The Multifarious Forms of the Medieval Village; 10. The Interplay of Innovations; Chapter Four The Long Journey to the Town; 1. The Beginnings of Production Specialisation
2. For a Theory of Service Organisation and Back Again3. The Beginnings of Market Exchange; 4. Centrality and Its Legacy; 5. Litoměřice or Žatec; 6. Prague under Prague; 7. Modest and Yet More Modest Centres; 8. The Unobviousness of Locational Towns; 9. The Beginnings of the Urban Establishment; 10. The Kaleidoscope of Urban Beginnings; 11. Life in One House and One Town; 12. The Town and Its Region; Chapter Five Change in Change; 1. Causes in the System; 2. The Czech Lands, Central Europe, Europe; Bibliography; Index
Summary The book on the Medieval transformation that impacted the Czech lands in the 13th century, focussed on the onset of landed nobility, the transformation of the rural milieu, and the early urban history. The explanation is anchored in a broad European context
Notes Translated from the Czech
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Land settlement -- Czech Republic -- History -- To 1500
Social change -- Czech Republic -- History -- To 1500
Landscape changes -- Czech Republic -- History -- To 1500
Regionalism -- Czech Republic -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Geography
Land settlement
Landscape changes
Regionalism
Social change
Ländlicher Raum
Stadt
Sozialgeschichte
SUBJECT Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- History -- To 1526. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015309
Moravia (Czech Republic) -- History -- To 1526. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008460
Silesia (Czech Republic) -- History
Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- Geography
Moravia (Czech Republic) -- Geography
Silesia (Czech Republic) -- Geography
Subject Czech Republic
Czech Republic -- Bohemia
Czech Republic -- Moravia
Czech Republic -- Silesia
Böhmen
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ricketts, Philadelphia
ISBN 9789004226463
900422646X
Other Titles Proměna českých zemí ve středověku. English