Between Lipany and White Mountain - Essays in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bohemian History in Modern Czech Scholarship

This book presents twelve essays by Czech historians on the history of the Czech lands from the middle of the fifteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century, previously published in Czech, which appear here for the first time in English.

About the author

James R. Palmitessa, Ph.D. (1995), New York University, is Associate Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Material Culture and Daily Life in the New City of Prague in the Age of Rudolf II (Krems, 1997) and numerous articles and book chapters on society and religion and popular culture.

Contributions by Robert Kalivoda, Frantisek Smahel, Petr Hlaváček, Václav Bůzek, Frantisek Kavka and Anna Skýbová, Josef Janáček, Josef Válka, Petr Kreuz, Tomás Knoz, Jiří Mikulec, Josef Grulich and Hermann Zeitlhofer, and Lenka Bobková.

Product details

• Assisted by: James R. Palmitessa (Editor), Barbara Day (Translation), Christopher Hopkinson (Translation)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2014
• EAN: 9789004277571
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27757-1
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Studies in Central European Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)