Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation

Jan Klápště (1949), is professor of Medieval Archaeology at Charles University in Prague. His work is published widely in local and international journals and volumes. He is editor of the proceedings of Ruralia (1996 onwards).

• Introductory Note ... viiPetr SommerForeword ... ixDavid A. WarnerAcknowledgements ... xxiList of Figures ... xxiiiMap ... xlPlaces Index ... xliChapter One The Middle Ages—Distant and Close ... 11. The Wedding Picture of Saint Hedwig ... 42. An Invitation to Wiprecht of Groitzsch ... 8Chapter Two Transforming the Might of the Mighty ... 131. Great Moravian Beginnings ... 142. Epilogue of the ‘Warrior Graves’ ... 283. The Residences of Dukes and Bishops, as well as of the Other Elite ... 364. Quod autem mea ecclesia hodie habet, auferendi dux potestatem non habet ... 435. The First Evidence of the Property of the Nobles ... 466. Travels with Bishop Daniel ... 587. Kin-Group Beginnings in Prčice ... 648. Hroznata of Tepla and His Property Declaration ... 689. Leo de Klobuc or an Official’s Path to Property ... 7610. Zbraslav, Pincerna Regis, and His Guests ... 8011. Seeking the Right Address ... 8912. The Residences of the Lords in the Environs of the Castle Centres ... 10313. Twice at Kojata’s from the Hrabiše Family ... 11114. Hageno de Zvethiz and the Others ... 11915. The Spectacular Pride of the Aristocratic Castles ... 12616. Fortified Manors or a Eulogy to Ingenuity ... 154Chapter Three The Frail Certainties of the Rural Milieu ... 1711. The Long Slow Course of Medieval Settlement ... 1712. The Villages of the Early Middle Ages ... 1853. This World and the Other World ... 1974. The Improvement of Land as a System ... 2105. The Henrykow Book and Its Report on the Colonisation Period ... 2276. Transformations of the Central European Village in the Archaeological Evidence ... 2367. Seeking the Legal Framework for the Transformation of the Village in the Czech Lands ... 2428. Where the Place Name ‘Lhota’ Came From ... 2719. The Multifarious Forms of the Medieval Village ... 27410. The Interplay of Innovations ... 305Chapter Four The Long Journey to the Town ... 3251. The Beginnings of Production Specialisation ... 3272. For a Theory of Service Organisation and Back Again ... 3443. The Beginnings of Market Exchange ... 3504. Centrality and Its Legacy ... 3585. Litoměřice or Žatec ... 3676. Prague under Prague ... 3797. Modest and Yet More Modest Centres ... 3968. The Unobviousness of Locational Towns ... 4039. The Beginnings of the Urban Establishment ... 40610. The Kaleidoscope of Urban Beginnings ... 41011. Life in One House and One Town ... 44312. The Town and Its Region ... 448Chapter Five Change in Change ... 4591. Causes in the System ... 4632. The Czech Lands, Central Europe, Europe ... 467Bibliography ... 471Index ..