The Crown of Bohemia at a Crossroads. History of Upper and Lower Lusatia and Lower Silesia at the end of the Middle Ages and in the early years of the Modern period (1437–1526)

Abstract

The Book is intent on questions of ulterior lands of the Crown of Bohemia in years 1437-1526, specifically on politics, administration and religion. Phenomena little known in the Czech context are presented synthetically, via a microanalysis or via an analysis of a particular problem or event.

The work is an outcome of a grant project; the book includes too 2 essays of German historians.

Keywords

• Crown of Bohemia
• Upper Lusatia
• Lower Lusatia
• Lower Silesia
• 1437-1526
• late Middle Ages
• early Modern period
• Kings of Bohemia
• Ladislaus the Posthumous
• George of Podebrady
• Matthias Corvinus
• Vladislaus II the Jagellonian