This book offers the first comprehensive picture of the medieval
archaeology of the Czech Lands available in English. Alongside
assembling the main topics of current archaeological research, it
establishes the key issues in its methodology. Topics covered
explore both rural and urban contexts, secular power structures,
and monastic houses and parish churches. Besides flagship urban
archaeology surveys in Prague and Brno (the Moravian metropolis),
unique in Europe is the excavation of the suburb of the town of
Sezimovo Usti which ceased to exist in 1420, and the complex castle
excavations at Lelekovice and Rokstejn. In the landscape, important
data come from the surveys of deserted villages and manorial farms.
Special attention is given to technology, crafts, industry
(including mining and glass production), housing culture and daily
life across the various social strata. One of the fascinating
features is the artefactual presentation of two competing religions
- Catholicism and Utraquism; and new insights are made of Jewish
everyday life, and the story of the Anabaptists and their Central
European crafts heritage.Key sites, structures and finds are
illustrated as the author ventures on an archaeological journey
through the medieval Czech Kingdom. A particular focus of this book
is the position of the Czech Lands between the gradual process of
medieval transformation (13th century) and early modern transition
(16th century). Throughout, the book is illustrated with images
rarely seen in the wider European context.
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