CONTENTS

Studia et commentationes

Radka Heisslerová, Malíři Nového Města pražského a vzestup jejich cechu v 17. století [Painters in Prague’s New Town and the rise of their guild in the 17th century]
7–57

Abstract
The towns of Prague were home to several painters’ guilds at the same time. The history and character of the Old Town’s brotherhood of painters (until 1674 the Old Town/Lesser Town brotherhood) has already been studied by numerous researchers. This study offers new information on the activities of the somewhat overlooked New Town painters’ guild and its functioning in the 17th century, when its membership included many foreign artists. These painters initiated the creation of new guild statutes and helped give their association the same rights as its counterpart from the Old Town. The New Town painters’ guild introduced numerous rules and standards previously unknown in Prague, thus making it an important factor in the evolution of painting in Prague.

Keywords: painters’ guild – guild statutes – Prague’s New Town – 17th century

Vojtěch Pojar, Cestovní průvodce v procesu modernizace: případ Prahy v „dlouhém“ 19. století [The modernization of the travel guide: Prague during the “long” 19th century]
59–120

Abstract
Travel guides – a previously overlooked source – have recently begun to attract the attention of researchers. This study aims to meet this interest by providing a list of guidebooks for Prague that were published during the “long” 19th century. This body of source material was used for a subsequent socio-historical analysis whose main focus is the production of travel guides, the people involved in their creation, and the social practices associated with their creation. The findings of this analysis indicate that besides focusing on the textual representation and its linguistic contexts, researchers working with travel guides should not lose sight of the actors and non-linguistic contexts that significantly influenced the contents of these publications.

Keywords: travel guides – tourism – history of travel – Prague – the “long” 19th century –modernization theory

Ivana Dejmková, Modřany 1938–1947. Konfrontace obce na periferii Prahy s problémy válečné a poválečné Evropy (II. část – tábor u Rupy) [Modřany 1938–1947. A town on Prague’s periphery confronts the problems of wartime and post-war Europe (Part II: The Rupa camp)]
121–199

Abstract
The second part of this source study on the history of the barracks housing for slave labourers – built in 1944 near the Junkers factory in Modřany, used after the war as a “local internment camp,” and in July 1945 converted into a state-run multipurpose “collection camp” – looks at the post-war period. At the Modřany camp, interned local Germans and Czech collaborators encountered German prisoners of war, war refugees, German nationals and nationals from eastern and southern Europe waiting for repatriation, displaced persons, and children who had lost their families in the chaos of war. The study also looks at the camp’s interaction with the town – specifically, the inhabitants of Modřany – for even after jurisdiction was definitively transferred from the local authorities to the state government, the camp and its inhabitants essentially remained a part of the town’s life. The first refugees left the Modřany camp via transports to Germany in July 1945, and the first documented refugee transport to depart Modřany directly for eastern Germany was on 31 August of that year. Many people also escaped from the camp or from their places or work outside the camp. In 1946, Modřany was made Prague’s central staging site for transports to Germany; nevertheless, most of the more than 19,000 individuals “transferred” via Modřany were not originally from Prague, and only 3,753 persons were former city residents (including Reich Germans who had moved to Prague during the occupation).

Keywords: Modřany – Prague – World War II – post-war migrations – displaced persons – internment and collection camps – forced migration – population transfer – expulsion of Germans

Materialia

Jan Hrdina, Liber summarius bernarum Nove Civitatis Pragensis. Příjmy a výdaje Nového Města pražského v letech 1411–1418 (Úvod a edice) [Liber summarius bernarum Nove Civitatis Pragensis. Income and expenditures of Prague’s New Town in the years 1411–1418 (Introduction and Edition)]
203–307

Abstract
Stored in the Prague City Archives’ collection of manuscripts under ref. no. 989 is the tax collection book for Prague’s New Town from the years 1411–1544, from which the author put together an edition covering the years 1411–1418 (fol. 3ra–40va). The manuscript in question represents the only medieval book of finances for Prague’s New Town. The introduction to the edition describes the manuscript’s internal and external attributes (special binding, metalwork, watermarks, list of scribes), outlines the source’s historiographic use, illustrates taxation practices in the New Town prior to 1420, and also sheds light on how the entries are structured. The book was begun by Johannes von Tepl (also known as Johannes von Saaz or Johannes von Schüttwa), the author of Der Ackermann aus Böhmen, who held the office of the New Town’s protonotary from May/ June 1411 until his death at the turn of 1414/15. The book was continued by his successor, the protonotary Václav, until mid-1418. The protonotaries ensured that information from the (today no longer extant) tax registers was collectively copied into the book for the sake of posterity – this includes the income from municipal collections in the New Town’s four quarters, but especially the various expenditures (distributa) for the town’s needs and taxes for the reigning sovereign. This source material can be used for the study of the socio-economic, political, cultural, and military history of Prague and Bohemia as a whole.

Keywords: late Middle Ages – Prague’s New Town – town finances – edition of sources – municipal office – municipal books – tax collection books – tax registers – metal components of bookbinding – Jan z Teplé (Johannes von Tepl)

Martina Maříková, Směnečný a obchodní soud v Praze 1764–1785 [The Court of Trade and Exchange in Prague, 1764–1785]
309–361

Abstract
The Exchange Edict issued on 22 December 1763 enacted uniform rules for business relations in the Czech lands and also established courts of trade and exchange in Prague, Brno and Opava. In practice, the newly proclaimed Rules of Exchange represented a fundamental change to the traditional court system: the newly created courts had jurisdiction over all people regardless of their social status or class affiliation – criteria that had previously determined which courts would handle a matter. In addition, in the first instance, disputes were handled by a committee composed of representatives from the merchant class, which increased the guarantee of an impartial decision. The aim of the Exchange Edict was to simplify and speed up the enforcement of debt repayment for merchants and thus to stimulate the country’s stagnating trade and industrial production. However, for their first two decades of existence, the new courts had to contend with a poor financial situation and the disparaging attitude of local and regional government representatives and the merchants themselves. This situation resulted not only from royal officials’ rigid insistence on minimizing the costs associated with the courts’ operation, but also from the imperfect legislative and technical quality of the pertinent regulations.

Keywords: 18th century – Bohemia – Prague – exchange courts – bills of exchange – trade – manufactories

Veronika Knotková, Vysoká škola politická a sociální v Praze, 1945–1949 (1952) [The University of Political and Social Sciences in Prague, 1945–1949 (1952)]
363–380

Abstract
This study summarizes the current state of research on the University of Political and Social Sciences in Prague during the Third Republic (1945–1948) and subsequently during the early part of the communist regime. It provides a brief overview of the school’s study programs and teaching staff and engages in an attempt at characterizing its student body. Adequate attention is paid to a description of the archival collection stored at the Prague City Archives. The study outlines further possibilities for the use of these archival materials, as well as the limitations that the researcher must contend with.

Keywords: University of Political and Social Sciences – Prague – colleges and universities – 1945–1953

Recensiones librorum
(382–567)

Recensiones complexivae

Dvě publikace o katedrálách: v Praze a v Českých Budějovicích [Two Publications on Cathedrals: Prague and České Budějovice] (Zdeňka Hledíková)

Zaplňování proluk v dějinách pražské divadelní kultury 19. a 20. století [Filling in the Blanks in the History of Czech Theatre Culture of the 19th and 20th centuries] (Hana Svatošová)

Vodárny, kanalizace a pisoáry v městě Praze [Waterworks, Sewerage, and Pissoirs in the City of Prague] (Jiří Pešek)

Pragensia

Historický atlas měst České republiky 14 (Praha-Libeň), 19 (Praha – Královské Vinohrady), 24 (Praha-Smíchov) [A Historical Atlas of Czech Cities 14 (Prague-Libeň), 19 (Prague-Vinohrady), 24 (Prague-Smíchov)] (Jiří Pešek)

Tobias Weger, Kleine Geschichte Prags (Jiří Pešek)

Jan Havrda – Michal Tryml a kol., Nebovidy. Středověká osada v pražském podhradí [Nebovidy. A Medieval Settlement Below Prague Castle]; Anna Žďárská, Středověké sklo z Prahy [Medieval Glass from Prague] (Zdeněk Dragoun)

Martina Lehmannová, Řemesla v pořádku. Historie profesního sdružování pražských řemeslníků od středověku po současnost [Bringing Order to the Trades. The History of Professional Associations of Prague’s Craftsmen from the Middle Ages to the Present] (Jiří Smrž)

Martin Musílek, Patroni, klienti, příbuzní. Sociální svět Starého Města pražského ve 14. století [Patrons, Clients, Kinship. The Social World of Prague’s Old Town in the 14th Century] (Martin Nodl)

František Šmahel, Jan Hus. Život a dílo [Jan Hus. His Life and Work] (Thomas Krzenck)

Praha Husova a husitská. 1415–2015 [The Prague of Jan Hus and the Hussites. 1415–2015], (eds.) Petr Čornej – Václav Ledvinka – Jan Hrdina (Thomas Krzenck)

Marie Buňatová, Pražští kupci na cestách. Předbělohorská Praha a středoevropské trhy [Prague’s Merchants on the Road. Pre-White Mountain Prague and Central European Markets] (Olga Fejtová)

Mnichov – Praha. Výtvarné umění mezi tradicí a modernou [Munich – Prague. Art Between Tradition and Modernity]. München – Prag. Kunst zwischen Tradition und Moderne, (edd.) Taťána Petrasová – Roman Prahl (Anita Pelánová)

Martina Niedhammer, Nur eine „Geld-Emancipation“? Loyalitäten und Lebenswelten des Prager jüdischen Großbürgertums 1800–1867 (Václav Petrbok)

Roman Prahl – Petr Šámal, Umění jako dekorace a symbol. Výzdoba reprezentačních staveb Prahy v éře historismu, secese a moderny [Art as Decoration and Symbol. The Decoration of Ceremonial Buildings in Prague in the Time of Historicism, Art Nouveau, and Modernism] (Jiří Pešek – Nina Lohmann)

Topičův salon 1918–1936 [The Topič Salon 1918–1936], (ed.) Milan Pech; Topičův salon 1937–1949 [The Topič Salon 1937–1949], (ed.) Milan Pech; 50–91 Čs. spisovatel, (ed.) Marie Klimešová (Yvetta Dörflová)

Jiří Padevět, Průvodce protektorátní Prahou. Místa – události – lidé [A Guide to Protectorate-Era Prague. Places – Events – People]; Prokop Tomek, Estébáckou Prahou. Průvodce po pražských sídlech Státní bezpečnosti [StB Prague. A Guide to the Prague Buildings of State Security] (Nina Lohmann)

Jiří Siostrzonek, Jaromír Čejka – Jižní Město (fotografický projekt pražského sídliště z počátku osmdesátých let) [Jaromír Čejka – South City (a photographic project of the Prague housing estate from the early 1980s)] (Jiří Pešek)

Urbana

Jiří Hrůza, Svět měst [The World of Cities] (Jiří Pešek)
Schweizer Städtebilder. Urbane Ikonographien (15.–20. Jahrhun- dert) / Portraits de villes suisses. Iconographie urbaine (XVe–XXe siècle) / Vedute delle città svizzere. L’iconografia urbana (XV–XX secolo), (Hrsg.) Bernd Roeck – Martina Stercken – François Walter – Marco Jorio – Thomas Manetsch (Olga Fejtová)

Rathäuser als multifunktionale Räume der Repräsentation, der Parteiungen und des Geheimnisses, (Hrsg.) Susanne Claudine Pils – Martin Scheutz – Christoph Sonnlechner – Stefan Spevak (Kateřina Jíšová)

City Halls and Civic Materialism. Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space, (edd.) Swati Chattopadhyay – Jeremy White (Martina Power)

Marie Malivánková Wasková – Jaroslav Douša a kol., Dějiny města Plzně 1. Do roku 1788 [The History of Pilsen 1. Before 1788] (Michal Tejček)

Petr Rak, Správa města Kadaně v letech 1465–1620 [The Town Administration of Kadaň in 1465–1620] (Olga Fejtová)

Marek Ďurčanský, Česká města a jejich správa za třicetileté války. Zemský a lokální kontext [Czech Cities and Town Administration During the Thirty Years’ War: The Land and Local Context] (Jiří Pešek)

Das Preßburger Protocollum Testamentorum 1410 (1427)–1529. Teil 2: 1487–1529, (Hrsg.) Judit Majorossy – Katalin Szende (Petr Kreuz)

Reinhard Heydenreuter, Kriminalität in München. Verbrechen und Strafen im alten München (1180–1880) (Petr Kreuz)

Nicolas Gillen, „Nur Gott vor Augen.“ Die Strafgerichtsbarkeit des Patriarchen von Venedig (1451–1545) (Petr Kreuz)

Městské právo ve střední Evropě. Sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní právnické konference „Práva městská Království českého“ z 19.–21. září 2011, Praha [Town Privileges in Central Europe. Proceedings from the International Legal Conference “Town Privileges in the Bohemian Kingdom,” Prague, 19–21 Sept. 2011], (eds.) Karel Malý – Jiří Šouša jr. (Ivana Ebelová)

Ellen Franke, Von Schelmen, Schlägern, Schimpf und Schande. Kriminalität in einer frühneuzeitlichen Kleinstadt – Strasburg in der Uckermark (Petr Kreuz)

Smolná kniha města Chlumce nad Cidlinou (1562–1671) a jeho hrdelní soudnictví v letech 1542–1671 [The Book of Executions of the Town of Chlumec nad Cidlinou (1562–1671) and Capital Punishment in the Town in 1542–1671], (ed.) Jindřich Francek (Petr Kreuz)

Barbara Balážová, Medzi Prahou a Norimbergom, Viedňou a Banskou Štiavnicou. Ulrich Reutter a jeho svet okolo 1600 [Between Prague and Nuremberg, Vienna and Banská Štiavnica. Ulrich Reutter and His World Around 1600] (Olga Fejtová)

Alison Rowlands, Eine Reichsstadt ohne Hexenwahn. Hexenprozesse und Gerichtspraxis in Rothenburg ob der Tauber im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (Petr Kreuz)

Jindřich Francek, Zločin a trest v Chocni v 16.–18. století [Crime and Punishment in Choceň in the 16th–18th Centuries] (Petr Kreuz)

Varia historica

Lucemburkové. Česká koruna uprostřed Evropy [The House of Luxembourg. The Bohemian Crown in the Middle of Europe], (eds.) František Šmahel – Lenka Bobková (Jana Konvičná)

Nation et nations au Moyen Age. Actes du XLIVe Congrès de la SHMESP (Prague, 23 mai – 26 mai 2013), (éd.) Société des Historiens Médievistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur Public (Jana Fantysová-Matějková)

„Poslušenství synovské vzkazuji Vám, můj nejmilejší pane otče.“ Studium a korespondence kněžského dorostu Jednoty bratrské v letech 1610–1618 [“I Proclaim My Filial Obedience to You, My Most Beloved Lord Father.” The Studies and Correspondence of Young Future Priests Among the Union of Brethren in 1610–1618,], (ed.) Markéta Růčková (Martin Wernisch)

Archeologica

Zdeněk Dragoun et al., Archeologický výzkum v Praze v letech 2013–2014 [Archaeological excavations in Prague, 2013–2014]
571–685

List of illustrations

List of authors