Český časopis historický

Datum publikování: 9.2024

Abstrakt: The presented paper focuses on a demonstration of the methodological concept of the key role of historical-geographical factors in the development of medieval and early modern towns, using the example of royal towns in Bohemia. What is foremost of interest here is how significantly urban development was conditioned by the historical landscape, which can already be grasped as a basic platform, from the knowledge of which and possible reconstruction, medieval and early modern urban research can be successfully elaborated, striving to overcome the fragmentation of the interpretation of urban history and create conditions for syntheses based on functional comparative urban history. In this context, findings from the systematic research of medieval and early modern chancelleries of royal towns in Bohemia are also purposefully used, the conclusions of which very effectively help with comprehensive research of our urban history: by determining the level of chancellery activity, they relatively reliably reflect the prosperity of a certain royal town in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, understood in all its complexity not only as an integral part of (Central) European, state, land, and regional history, but also explored locally as a town in a landscape. Nevertheless, the research necessarily uses the knowledge of other historical disciplines, without the involvement of which it would not be possible to examine towns in the context of political, religious, economic, and cultural contexts in the broadest sense of the word, and to observe the external and internal influences on the urban organism and their impacts in the positive or negative sense of the word.

Rozsah stran: s. 487-513

DOI: 10.56514/cch.122.03.02

Status recenzování: recenzovaný článek

Licence: Libre Open Access