Faces of community in Central European towns : images, symbols, and performances, 1400-1700 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Horníčková, Kateřina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: to be seen: the visual aspect in urban symbolic communication / Kateřina Horníčková
  • Towns in neighboring regions, 1400-1700: Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and the Carpathian Basin / Elisabeth Gruber
  • The Bohemian town as a space for symbolic communication (1400-1600) / Robert Šimůnek
  • Representing bonum commune in Austrian border-region towns: seals, fortifications, and hospitals / Elisabeth Gruber
  • The topography of justice: symbols, rituals, and the representation of urban justice in early modern northern Hungary / Blanka Szeghyová
  • Urban commemorative festivities as representations and visualizations of town order / Tomás Borovský
  • Insiders' visions: memory and self-representation in Bohemian utraquist towns / Kateřina Horníčková
  • The representation practices of the Prague painters' guild in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period / Michal Šroněk
  • The self-presentation of Burghers in Moravian seigniorial towns: Telč and Slavonice in the second half of the sixteenth century / Zdenka Míchalová
  • Public expressions of religious transformation in Moravian towns (1550-1618) / Josef Hrdlička
  • Reading the Prague lesser town square: topography of change in a residential city / Jana Doktorová
  • Epitaphs in the Moravian royal cities around 1600 and their confessional imagination / Ondřej Jakubec
  • The Jesuits and their urban visual presence in the Bohemian lands / Michal Šroněk
  • Rewriting memory: remodelling churches in seventeenth-century Freistadt / Kateřina Pražáková
  • Post-face(s): on the relationship of visual culture and urbanity in late medieval and early modern Central Europe / Katalin Szende.