The author presents a sample study of church ceremonies during rulers’ visits to the minor Czech Crown Lands in the 16th century. On the basis of ecclesiastical regulations, he describes the ideal course of a ritual, then ...

The paper analyses some 15th century chronicles from canons regular monasteries in Silesia and Kłodzko, which relate to the kings of Bohemia of this century. The chroniclers perceive the rulers in the context of the events ...

In the context of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown it was only in Upper Lusatia, and specifically in Bautzen, that medieval figural portraits of medieval and early Modern Age rulers survived, namely Matthias Corvinus and ...

This paper, based on an analysis of a wide spectrum of extant sources, analyses the preparations for and the course of the Upper Lusatian stage of the oath-taking journey of Matthias of Austria in 1611. It follows the ...

The author analyses both the image and the text component of some recently unknown examples of handbill journalism, from which he endeavours to make the most for an understanding of the oath-taking journeys to the minor ...

The article deals with the initial stages of organizing the royal offices in Upper Silesia in the hereditary duchies (provincial administrators, mayor) and financial administration in the 16th and 17th century.

Upper Lusatia, a region consisting of the Bautzen and Görlitz districts, was for many years part of the power structure of the Bohemian rulers. From the end of the 11th century until the year 1253 it was ruled by the ...

The article focuses on the question as to the role played by the secondary lands of the Bohemian Crown in the territorial understanding of the Czech state in the late Middle Ages, from the perspective of Bohemia as the ...