Faces of Community in Central European Towns - Images, Symbols, and Performances, 1400-1700 (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2018
Editors:	Katerina Hornickova
Contributors:	Tomas Borovsky • Jana Doktorova • Elisabeth Gruber • Katerina Hornickova • Josef Hrdlicka • Ondrej Jakubec • Zdenka Michalova • Katerina Prazakova • Robert Simunek
Dimensions:	230 x 159 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-5112-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN:	1-4985-5112-2
Barcode:	9781498551120

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