Abstrakt
During the XIVth century, political literature in Bohemia flowered and progressed considerably, as well as the whole of West European production, turned to political engagement and transmitted in vernacular. This trend is analysed on the basis of mirrors of prince genre through two main axis of questioning.
The first deals with the role which the image of wise king (rex sapiens) plays in the ideology and self-presentation of the Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg. The second part focuses on political society in Bohemia in the way it is reflected in the poem New Council, pronouncing in a polemical manner a critique of the Regin of Venceslas IV of Luxembourg.