Prague in Black and Gold · Scenes from the Life of a European City by Demetz, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Table of Contents Preface 1 - LIBUSSA, OR VERSIONS OF ORIGIN

What the Schoolchildren Learn What Archaeologists and Historians Believe: Hypotheses and Reconstructions The Fortunes of Libussa

2 - OTAKAR’S PRAGUE, 880—1278

From Trading Post to Royal Residence The Rise of a King The Early Jewish Community and the Prague Tosafists Czech Saints, Italian Rhetoricians, and German Poets “ … My kingdom stands on brittle glass”

3 - THE CAROLINIAN MOMENT: CHARLES IV AND HIS AGE

Burghers, Markets, and Cobbled Streets Prince václav or, Rather, Charles King Charles, Father of His Motherland The Founding of the New Town Charles Establishes His University The King’s Kitchen Cabinet and the Italian Connection: Cola di Rienzo and Francesco Petrarch Charles Builds His Myth New Writing in Carolinian Prague Cracks in the Facade The Carolinian Jewish Town and the Massacre of 1389

4 - THE HUSSITE REVOLUTION: 1415-22

The King and the Vicar-General The Advance of the Religious Reformers Jan Hus at Bethlehem The Decree of Kutná Hora Jan Hus at Constance The Beginnings of Hussite Resistance Prague Attracts the European Dissidents The Revolt of the Prague Radicals The Crusaders Arrive: The Battle on Žižka’s Hill The battle for the Vyšehrad and the Death of Jan Želivský Hussites and Jews, and a Coda

5 - RUDOLF II AND THE REVOLT OF 1618

Praga Mystica? After the Polish Kings, the Hapsburgs Again Rudolf in Ascendance Scientists in Prague: Tadeáš Hájek, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Jessenius The Alchemists Come to Prague The “Golden Age” of Prague’s Jewish Community: Rabbi Judah Loew and His Golem; Jewish Tradition and the New Sciences Picaresque Prague and the Case of Baron Russwurm The Last Years of Rudolf, The Revolt of 1618 and the Battle of the White Mountain The Prague Baroque

6 - MOZART IN PRAGUE

Gli Italiani a Praga A Third-Rate Place: War and Peace in the Provinces The Age of Reforms: Mother and Son Mozart at the Bertramka

7 - 1848 AND THE COUNTERREVOLUTION

The Travelers, and What They Did Not See Stormy Interlude: The Strikes of 1844 Revolution and Counterrevolution: 1848-49 Three Lives in the Shadow of the Revolution

8 - T. G. MASARYK’S PRAGUE

A Modernized City and a Literature of Ghosts The Republic in Its Monday Best Masaryk Returns to Prague From the Coachman’s Cottage to Prague Castle: A Modern Fairy Tale Turbulent, Republican Prague The Cultured of Republican Prague Prague, September 21, 1937

Author’s Note Also by Peter Demetz POSTCRIPT - A DIFFICULT RETURN TO PRAGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY - INDEX Bibliography Index Copyright Page