The Representation of the king's majesty in the Lands of the Crown during the reigns of John the Blind and Charles IV
2005
Abstract
This study contains the description of the basic ceremonial acts associated with the takeover of the king's power in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the 14th century (tributes, homages, adventus domini). It deals also with the visual representation of the king's power in the "lands adjoining the Czech Crown? (in the Upper and Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Silesia, in the Bohemian territories in the Upper Palatinate) - the royal houses, the frequency of the emblems of the Bohemian Kingdom and of the representations of the Bohemian land's patron saint Wenceslas as well as the king's portraits.
The article involves the analysis of the preserved monuments: the Lauf castle, Tangermünde, Luckau, Oybin.