Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020

House Owners - Tenants - Lodgers : The Topographical, Economic and Social Issues of Tenement Houses in Medieval Prague

Martin Musílek

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 2-36 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.2.01  

Based on the written sources preserved from the 14th and 15th centuries, the presented study attempts to research housing tenancy with an interdisciplinary perspective and the prism of five selected topics: 1. tenancy contracts; 2. town house and its layout through the eyes of history and building history; 3. analysis of the Old Town municipal tax books from the years 1427-1429; 4. analysis of the town tax and the method of its collection in the Old Town of Prague; 5. social rise of lodgers. Two other topics are supplemented: 6. housing tenancy and its influence on the religious and power-administrative organization of the city; 7. social structure...

Medieval Glass in the Collection of Vojtěch Lanna and in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

Helena Brožková, Hedvika Sedláčková

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 37-59 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.2.02  

The paper deals with glass from the 10th - 1st half of the 16th centuries collected by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (hereinafter UPM). A small assemblage of medieval glass, numbering 53 artefacts at present, was created from the very beginning of the museum's founding in 1885. Both container and flat glass is represented, circular window panes, stained glass, glass paste and underpainting. The earliest objects, referred to as Islamic glass, come from Egypt or the wider Eastern Mediterranean; the later ones are mostly of German origin. A specific section initiated by Dagmar Hejdová, documents a typical Bohemian production of the High Middle...

Motif of a squat dancing figure on an 8th century ornament from the northern edge of Prague

Naďa Profantová, Anna Plevová

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 60-69 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.2.03  

The bronze belt fitting found in 2020 in Prague 8-Dolní Chabry lacks the finds' circumstances. The fitting with the motif of a squat dancing naked figure with a neck ring and hands in an adoration gesture is unique. The same multiple motifs are on mid-8th century strap end found in the equestrian grave at Nové Zámky in Slovakia. This anthropomorphic motif, evidenced on less than ten sites in Bohemia, can convey a version of the ritual (dancing priestess or goddess) or a heroic legend, modified by the local environment. The closest analogies of anthropomorphic motifs come from sites at Prague-Šárka and Kosoř / Prague-Radotín and definitely relate to...

Corpus Christi Chapel on Charles Square in Prague : Form, function, meaning
Die Fronleichnamskapelle am Viehmarkt (Karlovo náměstí) in Prag: Ihre Form, Funktion, Bedeutung

Petr Uličný

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 70-94 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.2.04  

The Corpus Christi Chapel on the Cattle Market, today's Charles Square, was founded by the Confraternity of Hoop and Hammer in 1382 for the purpose of displaying Imperial Insignia containing precious Passion relics, which have been permanently kept in Bohemia since 1350. The chapel was a centrally planned architecture, unique in Luxembourg Bohemia with a central square tower and a wreath of chapels. However, because it was completely demolished, its exact layout and internal arrangement remains unclear and only roughly conceivable. The revision of well-known and fortunately numerous iconographic sources, presented in this paper, clarifies this idea...

Early postmedieval and postmedieval glass finds from two waste pits from the inner court yard of the Salm Palace in Prague

Gabriela Blažková, Šárka Křížová

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 95-119 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.2.05  

This study presents the analysis of glass artefacts found in two waste pits at the inner courtyard of the Salm Palace in Prague Hradčany. The pits, however, were used by the residents of the neighbouring Schwarzenberg Palace. Both glass assemblages were analysed from an archaeological and archaeometric point of view. This study confirms great significance and importance of such interdisciplinary cooperation. Chemical analysis of 35 samples showed a clear predominance of potassium glass. Sodium-ash glass is represented only by a goblet fragment with a mascaron-shaped knop and by a glass button. Although both studied assemblages are of a similar, more...

Building Development on the Plot of the House No. 887/II in Nekázanka Street as an Example of Secondary Plot Planning of a Prague New Town Block
Die Entwicklung der Bebauung des Grundstücks des Hauses Nr.-Konskr. 887/II in der Gasse Nekázanka in PragNeustadt als Beispiel der Sekundärparzellierung eines der Neustädter Häuserblöcke

Matouš Semerád, Pavel Taibl, Martin Musílek

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 120-142 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.2.06  

Archaeological excavation together with a detailed building history survey revealed new facts about the appearance of the earliest 14th century settlement of Prague New Town from the period of its locating (1348), and the subsequent development of burgher houses in this part of the city after secondary plot planning in the 1370s. On the example of today's house No. 887/II, it is possible to observe the relocation of the residential unit within two (?) town settlements during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. The war conflict in the 18th century (1757/1758) completely changed the character and appearance of street buildings. The traditional...

Věstník Klubu Za starou Prahu (1910-2015) - tematický rejstřík

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 143-154  

Stavebněhistorické a operativní průzkumy a dokumentace provedené NPÚ ÚOP v Praze v roce 2019

Ladislav Bartoš, Kristýna Kalousková, Kateřina Knotová, Anna Piskáčková, Matouš Semerád

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 155-163  

První patro Velkopřevorského paláce na plánu z let 1725-1726

Miroslav Kovář

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 164-165  

Kříž nad Huascaránem. Vzpomínka na tragédii expedice Peru 1970

Helena Čižinská

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 166-179  

In memoriam Ing. Jany Růžičkové

Helena Čižinská, Bohumil Chalupníček, Alexandra Křížová, Josef Hájek

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 180-195  

Patrick Julian Foster Known and Unknown

Linda Foster

Staletá Praha 36, 2/2020, 196  

Malostranská rotunda svatého Václava v Praze

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