Download or read book Autobiography of Emperor Charles IV and his Legend of St Wenceslas written by Balázs Nagy and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the few autobiographies to have survived from the Middle Ages, this life history of one of the most influential rulers of the fourteenth century, Charles IV of Bohemia, covers his life from birth until his election as King of Germany in 1346. Charles IV describes his childhood, spent mainly in the court of French kings, his juvenile years, his marriage and his first steps into the international political scene during the early part of the fourteenth century. A unique addition to this volume is the first ever English translation of the Legend of Saint Wenceslas, written by Charles IV of Luxemburg. This is the first autobiography to contain both the Latin narrative sources and a complete English-language translation.
Download or read book The Parisian Summit 1377 78 written by František Šmahel and published by Karolinum Press, Charles University. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. The author describes with intelectual brilliance and narrative talent the journey from Prague to Paris as a step by step journey reportage using contemporary French chronicles and vast medievistic literature as well as many beautiful illustrations. The result is an appealing account on medieval life, everyday and intelectual, mentality, grand European politics of the time or even medieval cuisine. The first part of the book presents the well-known facts of Charles IV life (brought up in Paris, his father’s John Luxemberg’s political and representational activities, his international goals, etc.). The middle part of the book brings a transcription of richly illustrated French chronicles. The third part analyses the importance of the meeting of the two most powerful European rulers of the time. Final and most original part consists of individual studies concerning practical organisation of medieval festivities, its logistic, transport, or culinary details, the court manners, relationships and symbolics. Šmahel draws from latest knowledge and methods from archeology and microhistory to cultural anthropology or iconography. This as a highly readable account of medieval time inspiring in its originality for expert historians as well as appealing to the general public.
Download or read book The Emperor Charles IV 1316 1378 written by Gerald Groveland Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prague of Charles IV written by Jan Royt and published by Karolinum Press, Charles University. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication, written by Czech professor of art history Jan Royt, renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom in the High Gothic period in the broader historical context of the circumstances that were particularly favourable for Prague during Charles IV's reign (1347-1378). For the first time in history, after Charles's coronation as the Holy Roman Emperor in 1355, the capital of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown was simultaneously the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire. Thanks to the royal and imperial care, which in addition to Charles' monarchical post in Europe also reflected his Western-European education and cosmopolitan openness as well as his belief in and respect for the Premyslid tradition, Prague flourished, becoming a unique and beautiful city. The cathedral, the stone bridge, the university and construction of the New Town and its churches laid out in a magical cross pattern, remain today as the "stone seals" on the face of Prague's Gothic architecture, endorsed by the paintings, sculpture and the entire realm of spiritual culture. The book contains around 100 photographs of Prague monuments, sights and documentary images.
Download or read book The Emperor Charles IV written by Bede Jarrett and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autobiography of Emperor Charles IV and His Legend of St Wenceslas written by Charles IV ((empereur germanique ;) and published by . This book was released on 2001-02-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The autobiography of the German emperor and Bohemian king Charles IV, one of the few to survive from the Middle Ages, gives a unique insight into the personality of one of the most influential rulers of 14th-century Central Europe. Covering the years from his birth in 1316 until his election as the king of Germany in 1346, Charles tells of his childhood at the court of the French kings, his marriage, his first steps on the international scene in support of his father John of Luxemburg's Italian policies, his return to Bohemia and his administration there, and his participation in John's wars in Silesia. Charles also writes at length on his ideals of the perfect ruler, and does not attempt to hide his dreams, temptations, affections, and faith. The volume also includes the first complete English translation of Charles's Legend of St. Wenceslas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Emperor Charles IV 1316 1378 written by Gerald Groveland Walsh (S.J.) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Heart for Europe written by James Bogle and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Bull written by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Bull of 1356 (German: Goldene Bulle, Latin: Bulla Aurea) was a decree issued by the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg and Metz (Diet of Metz (1356/57)) headed by the Emperor Charles IV which fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire. It was named the Golden Bull for the golden seal it carried.
Download or read book Physical and personality traits of Charles IV Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia written by Emanuel Vlček and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the death of Charles IV in 1978, Professor Emanuel Vlček, MD, DSc conducted research of the skeletal remains of the Pater patriae, which brought a number of surprising findings, important to a whole range of scientific disciplines at Charles University, and cast light on significant events in Charles’ life as well as on the cause of his death. The research has presented this prominent ruler as a human being, an ordinary mortal, suffering from many injuries and chronic diseases with which he was coping with indefatigable will, keeping in mind his commitments to God and Kingdom of Bohemia. It may be that all the pain and suffering also influenced his spirituality and his efforts to find salvation by attempting to realize his concept of the supreme being (Imitatio Christi). The results of the research by Professor Vlček have been repeatedly published, but until now we have had no representative publication in English. The forthcoming celebrations of the 700th anniversary of Charles’ birth offer an opportunity to fill this gap.
Download or read book Emperor written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “elegant and engaging” biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: “a masterpiece” (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times). The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But capturing the nature of this elusive man has proven notoriously difficult—especially given his relentless travel, tight control of his own image, and the complexity of governing the world’s first transatlantic empire. Geoffrey Parker, one of the world’s leading historians of early modern Europe, has examined the surviving written sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as well as visual and material evidence. In Emperor, he explores the crucial decisions that created and preserved this vast empire, analyzes Charles’s achievements within the context of both personal and structural factors, and scrutinizes the intimate details of the ruler’s life for clues to his character and inclinations. The result is a unique biography that interrogates every dimension of Charles’s reign and views the world through the emperor’s own eyes.
Download or read book Prague written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue accompanies the Fall 2005 exhibition that celebrates the flowering of art in medieval Prague, when the city became not only an imperial but also an intellectual and artistic capital of Europe. Scholars trace the distinctly Bohemian art that developed during the reigns of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and his sons; the artistic achievements of master craftsmen; and the rebuilding of Prague Castle and of Saint Vitus' Cathedral. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
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Download or read book The Emperor Charles IV 1316 1378 written by Gerald Groveland Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Emperor Charles IV written by Gerald Groveland Walsh (1892-1952, tr) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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