Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City" ... Demetz begins with the intriguing myths about Prague's origins--told and retold by generations of artists--contrasting them with confirmed archaeological truths about the site's pre-Roman settlements. He weaves together the colorful strands of Prague's literary traditions (Latin, Czech, German, and Jewish) with the story of its scintillating political and cultural advances, and focuses on key moments in its multicultural life: under King Charles, when it was the capital of the Holy Roman Empire; in the turbulent years of the Hussite rebellion; under Emperor Rudolf II, during the Renaissance, when it was home to Europe's best rationalists and most famous occultists; in the time of Mozart; and in the ages of revolutionary nationalism and of T.G. Masaryk, heroic first president of Czechoslovakia. Throughout, Demetz shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews hve lived and worked together in Prague for a thousand years ..."--Jacket. |
Contents
Hypotheses and Reconstructions | 6 |
Archaeological Sites of Ancient | 15 |
The Fortunes of Libussa | 16 |
Otakars Prague 8801278 | 30 |
Landmarks of Přemyslid Prague | 33 |
The Early Jewish Community and the Prague Tosafists | 40 |
Czech Saints Italian Rhetoricians and German Poets | 48 |
My kingdom stands on brittle glass | 61 |
Rudolf in Ascendance | 179 |
Tadeáš Hájek Tycho Brahe Johannes Kepler | 187 |
The Alchemists Come to Prague | 196 |
Picaresque Prague and the Case of Baron Russwurm | 212 |
The Revolt of 1618 and the Battle of the White Mountain | 223 |
The Prague Baroque | 232 |
War and Peace in the Provinces | 241 |
Mozart at the Bertramka | 254 |
Charles IV and His Age | 67 |
Charles Builds His Myth | 95 |
New Writing in Carolinian Prague | 101 |
The Carolinian Jewish Town and the Massacre of 1389 | 112 |
141522 | 118 |
Jan Hus at Bethlehem | 130 |
Jan Hus at Constance | 139 |
The Beginnings of Hussite Resistance | 145 |
The Revolt of the Prague Radicals | 151 |
Landmarks and Battlefields of Hussite Prague | 163 |
Rudolf II and the Revolt of 1618 | 171 |
The Strikes of 1844 | 284 |
Three Lives in the Shadow of the Revolution | 300 |
T G Masaryks Prague | 314 |
The Republic in Its Monday Best | 322 |
Masaryk Returns to Prague | 329 |
Turbulent Republican Prague | 338 |
Social Topography of Prague in 1930 | 345 |
Prague September 21 1937 | 361 |
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