Faces of Community in Central European Towns

Images, Symbols, and Performances, 1400–1700

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture, History, Eastern Europe, Art History
Cover of the book Faces of Community in Central European Towns by Tomáš Borovský, Jana Doktorová, Elisabeth Gruber, Kateřina Horníčková, Josef Hrdlička, Ondřej Jakubec, Zdeňka Míchalová, Kateřina Pražáková, Robert Šimůnek, Michal Šroněk, Blanka Szeghyová, Katalin Szende, Lexington Books
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Author: Tomáš Borovský, Jana Doktorová, Elisabeth Gruber, Kateřina Horníčková, Josef Hrdlička, Ondřej Jakubec, Zdeňka Míchalová, Kateřina Pražáková, Robert Šimůnek, Michal Šroněk, Blanka Szeghyová, Katalin Szende ISBN: 9781498551137
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: September 15, 2018
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Tomáš Borovský, Jana Doktorová, Elisabeth Gruber, Kateřina Horníčková, Josef Hrdlička, Ondřej Jakubec, Zdeňka Míchalová, Kateřina Pražáková, Robert Šimůnek, Michal Šroněk, Blanka Szeghyová, Katalin Szende
ISBN: 9781498551137
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: September 15, 2018
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of images and visual representation by concentrating on the varieties of symbolic communication in towns that made a range of relationships visual: the status and role of urban civic, professional, and religious communities and the relations between the town and its lord or powerful families and individuals. The geographical framework of this book is the region in the former Habsburg countries north of the Danube River embracing the region between western Bohemia and what is today eastern Slovakia, including the borderland towns of northern Austria. Two studies focus on specific local and occupational communities in the Prague towns, but most of the texts in this book focus on small towns by contemporary European standards in which many forms of urban topography, buildings, objects, and monuments survive, even though few written sources have been preserved. Accessing a wide range of literature in regional languages and German for English speakers, this collection describes typical urban landscapes in early modern Central Europe outside the well-known Central European urban centers and traditional areas of study.

The book is a relevant new contribution to medieval and early modern studies, not only covering an underappreciated geographical area but also addressing general questions about the history of rituals and performance as well as visual culture, communication, and identity discourses in late medieval and early modern urban space.

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Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of images and visual representation by concentrating on the varieties of symbolic communication in towns that made a range of relationships visual: the status and role of urban civic, professional, and religious communities and the relations between the town and its lord or powerful families and individuals. The geographical framework of this book is the region in the former Habsburg countries north of the Danube River embracing the region between western Bohemia and what is today eastern Slovakia, including the borderland towns of northern Austria. Two studies focus on specific local and occupational communities in the Prague towns, but most of the texts in this book focus on small towns by contemporary European standards in which many forms of urban topography, buildings, objects, and monuments survive, even though few written sources have been preserved. Accessing a wide range of literature in regional languages and German for English speakers, this collection describes typical urban landscapes in early modern Central Europe outside the well-known Central European urban centers and traditional areas of study.

The book is a relevant new contribution to medieval and early modern studies, not only covering an underappreciated geographical area but also addressing general questions about the history of rituals and performance as well as visual culture, communication, and identity discourses in late medieval and early modern urban space.

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