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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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