Hastening Toward Prague. Lisa Wolverton

      

      HASTENING TOWARD PRAGUE

      THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES

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      Edward Peters, Founding Editor

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      HASTENING TOWARD PRAGUE

       Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands

      LISA WOLVERTON

      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

      Philadelphia

      Copyright © 2001 University of Pennsylvania Press

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Wolverton, Lisa.

      Hastening toward Prague : power and society in the medieval Czech lands / Lisa Wolverton.

      p. cm. — (Middle Ages series)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 0-8122-3613-0 (cloth : alk. paper)

      1. Bohemia (Czech Republic)—Politics and government—12th century. 2. Bohemia (Czech Republic)—Kings and rulers. 3. Power (Social sciences)—Czech Republic—Bohemia. 4. Přemyslid dynasty. 5. Cosmas, of Prague, 1045?–1125. I. Title. II. Series.

DB2082.5.W65 2001
943.71′6223—dc21	2001027490

       To my parents and my husband

      CONTENTS

       List of Maps, Figures, and Tables

       Introduction

       PART I: THE STRUCTURE OF POWER

       1. Ducal Lordship

       2. The Freemen

       3. Interdependence

       4. The Church

       PART II: DYNAMICS AND STRATEGIES

       5. Politics and the Divine: The Meaning and Mobilization of Saint Václav

       6. Dynastic Relations, Moravia, and the Progress of Revolt

       7. Manipulations of Imperial Authority

       Conclusion: Leadership and Community

       Appendix A: Selected Magnate Genealogies

       Appendix B: Names and Language

       Abbreviations

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      MAPS, FIGURES, AND TABLES

      MAPS

       1. Civitates in CDB no. 111

       2. Vršovici lands

       3. Land consolidation by Plasy before 1198

       4. Lands of Hroznata (Peruc), Měsko, Hroznata (Teplá)

       5. Milhost’s foundation at Mašt’ov

       6. Monasteries established before 1125

       7. Monasteries established before 1175

       8. Moravia

      FIGURES

       1. Přemyslids before Břetislav I (men)

       2. Eleventh- and twelfth-century Přemyslids (men)

       3. Denarii of various periods

       4. Seal of Soběslav II, charter dated 1175

       5. Seals, Duke Frederick charter, 1178–89

       6. Seal of Přemysl Otakar I, charter dated 1207

      TABLES

       1. Dukes of Bohemia

       2. Soběslav II’s officers

       3. Witnesses, Duke Frederick, charter, 1187

       4. Wives of dukes and vice-dukes

       5. Burial places of Přemyslids

       6. Bishops of Prague and Olomouc

      Duke Vladislav commended the city to his brother, Theobald, … with some very fierce warriors to protect the castle and the princely throne, a certain stone one, which even now stands in the castle’s center; for its sake, not only now but from of old, many thousands of warriors have rushed to war.

       —Vincent of Prague

      INTRODUCTION

      This book has two purposes: to study society and politics in the Czech Lands between roughly 1050 and 1200, and to reexamine the nature of power in the High Middle