Item Number: 148987 Title: Faces of Community in Central European Towns: Images, Symbols, and Performances, 1400–1700 Author: Hornickova, Katerina Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781498551120 Description: New York: Lexington Books, 2018. 24cm., hardcover, 430pp. illus. Contents: Introduction: To Be Seen: The Visual Aspect in Urban Symbolic Communication, Katerina Hornickova. Chapter 1: Towns in Neighboring Regions, 1400-1700: Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and the Carpathian Basin, Elisabeth Gruber. Chapter 2: The Bohemian Town as a Space for Symbolic Communication (1400-1600), Robert Simunek. Chapter 3: Representing bonum commune in Austrian Border-Region Towns: Seals, Fortifications, and Hospitals, Elisabeth Gruber. Chapter 4: The Topography of Justice: Symbols, Rituals, and the Representation of Urban Justice in Early Modern Northern Hungary, Blanka Szeghyova. Chapter 5: Urban Commemorative Festivities as Representations and Visualizations of Town Order, Tomas Borovsky. Chapter 6: Insiders' Visions: Memory and Self-Representation in Bohemian Utraquist Towns, Katerina Hornickova. Chapter 7: The Representation Practices of the Prague Painters' Guild in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Michal Sronek. Chapter 8: The Self-Presentation of Burghers in Moravian Seigniorial Towns: Tel? and Slavonice in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Zdenka Míchalova. Chapter 9: Public Expressions of Religious Transformation in Moravian Towns (1550-1618), Josef Hrdlicka. Chapter 10: Reading the Prague Lesser Town Square: Topography of Change in a Residential City, Jana Doktorova. Chapter 11: Epitaphs in the Moravian Royal Cities Around 1600 and their Confessional Imagination, Ondrej Jakubec. Chapter 12: The Jesuits and their Urban Visual Presence in the Bohemian Lands, Michal Sronek. Chapter 13: Rewriting Memory: Remodelling Churches in Seventeenth-Century Freistadt, Katerina Prazakova. Chapter 14: Post-Face(s): On the Relationship of Visual Culture and Urbanity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe, Katalin Szende.
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