Upper Lusatia and Silesia in the turn of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era in comparative perspective. Selected aspects of social, cultural and church development in the given period
Abstract
The historical regions of Upper Lusatia and Silesia differ in size, but their structure and development show a number of similar features. These parallels are often based on the belonging of the two countries to the Crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia, but also on the relationship of these regions to the Holy Roman Empire. Upper Lusatia, however, was closer to the Bohemian king, who was more directly active there and did not have to cope with the influence of princes as in Silesia. The two regions were also close in terms of ethnic (coexistence of Germans and Slavs) and confessional (Catholics versus Lutherans) diversity. They were also linked by Magdeburg law, and by links in the fields of literature and the visual arts. Their intellectual and social elites, which in the early modern period were predominantly German and Lutheran, were also similar.
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