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Topic: Cosmas of Prague


In the News (Mon 6 Jul 09)

  
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Prague was by its geographical situation naturally destined to become the capital of Bohemia, as it lies in the centre of the country.
On the 26th of November 1741 Prague was stormed by an army consisting of Bavarians, French and Saxons which upheld the cause of Charles, elector of Bavaria, who claimed the succession to the Bohemian throne and to the other domains of the house of Habsburg.
The centre of the old town and indeed of the entire community of Prague is the town hall (staromestska radnice), which is surrounded by the market-place, the scene of the execution of the Bohemian patriots in 1621.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=54131   (2981 words)

  
 Cosmas of Prague
With the Bishops of Prague, Gebhard, Cosmas, and Hermann, he was on terms of great intimacy, and often accompanied them on their travels; he likewise enjoyed the esteem and the confidence of the rulers of Bohemia.
Cosmas wrote in Latin a "Chronica Bohemorum", or historia of Bohemia from the earliest times to 1125.
As an historian, Cosmas is generally truthful and conscientious; he distinguishes between what is certain and what is based only on rumours or tradition.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/cosmas_of_prague.html   (408 words)

  
 Prague Castle
Prague castle was enlarged and renewed on a grand scale by the Premyslids in the 13th century and in the following two centuries by Charles IV and King Vladislav Jagiello.
Prague Castle was so devastated, demolished and broken that since the time of King Otakar II it has fallen to the ground.
Prague Castle is a sprawling complex situated atop a large hill on the left bank of the Vltava River, which runs through old town Prague.
www.castles.org /castles/Europe/Central_Europe/Czech_Republic/czech5.htm   (2533 words)

  
 "Alchemy and Puppetry: A Prague Sojourn" by Terri Windling
Prague thrived, and by the 14th century, under the rule of Charles IV, the city was larger than London or Paris and boasted western Europe's first university.
The most famous of Prague's creative figures, of course, was the German-speaking Franz Kafka (1883-1924), whose brooding surrealistic vision captured the darker flavor of the city where he lived for all but a few years of his life.
Prague is a place where the old and the new, the realistic and surrealistic, have come together in a singular manner -- in its arts, its streets, its politics, its way of life, and its stories.
www.endicott-studio.com /rdrm/forprag.html   (3441 words)

  
 Britské listy
The Czechs had their Culloden at the Battle of the White Mountain near Prague on 8th November 1620, although, unlike in Scotland, in the Czech case, it was the Catholic side which won and the protestant side that was defeated.
In that year, he returned to Prague because he had heard that a new Provisional Theatre was to be build there and wanted to compose operas and to become the new theatre's Kapellmeister.
Dalibor was premiered in the New Town Theatre in Prague on 16th May 1868, on the day of huge festivities, during which the foundation stones had been laid for the construction of the national theatre.
www.blisty.cz /files/isarc/9811/19981104e.html   (6259 words)

  
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COSMAS, of Prague (1045–1125), dean of the cathedral and the earliest Bohemian historian.
His Chronicae Bohemorum libri iii., which contains the history and traditions of Bohemia up to nearly the time of his death, has earned him the title of the Herodotus of his country.
This work, which his continuators brought down to the year 1283, is of the highest value to historians in spite of the fact that its reputation for disingenuousness and credibility has been greatly affected by the critical attacks of J. Loserth (Studien zu Cosmas von Prag, Vienna, 188o, andc.).
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=17810&locale=en   (193 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - MORAVIA:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
This, however, does not prove conclusively that Jews lived in Moravia in the beginning of the tenth century, for its regulations applied probably to traveling merchants who went to Moravia chiefly to buy slaves (Thietmar's "Chronicon," vi.
Jews must have lived in Moravia in the eleventh century, for Cosmas of Prague, the Bohemian chronicler (1040-1125), refers to them on various occasions.
Cosmas reports also that Duke Ladislaus (1109-25) ordered that thereafter (1124) no Christian should serve a Jew, because a certain Jew had taken holy relies from the altar of a church and had thrown them into a sewer.
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 ABC-Dir: Prague   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Prague parallel opera and ballet schedule, Prague Opera Gala, opera packages and ticket sales.
Poet, novelist, artist living in Prague, editor of The Prague Revue and Semtext.
Timeline and documentation of Popper's visit to Prague in 1994, including the text of his lecture at Charles University.
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 The Prague Post Online
More than 350 years after it was looted from Prague by the Swedish Army during the Thirty Years' War, a famous medieval text will return to its native land, though only temporarily.
Particularly noteworthy for Czechs, the manuscript contains the oldest version of Cosmas of Prague's "Chronicle of Bohemia," a history of the region.
It stayed in Prague for more than a half century, until it was taken by the Swedish Army to Stockholm.
www.praguepost.com /P03/2005/Art/1020/tempo1.php   (889 words)

  
 The Devil's Bible A 148   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
According to legend the scribe was a monk who had been confined to his cell for some breach of monastic discipline and who, by way of penance, finished the manuscript in one single night with the aid of the Devil, whom he had summoned to help him.
In 1594 the manuscript was acquired by the Imperial Treasury in Prague.
When the Swedish army conquered the city in 1648, it was brought to Sweden and presented to the Royal Library the following year.
www.kb.se /Hs/Eng/djavueng.htm   (111 words)

  
 MAGPIE » ALCHEMY AND PUPPETRY: A PRAGUE SOJOURN…
Rudolfine Prague was glittering and surreal, a city
and optimism swept Prague, culminating in the student revolt of Prague
Prague is a place where the old and the new, the realistic and surrealistic,
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 Czech and Slovak History: An Annotated Bibliography (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Prague in Pictures of Five Centuries, Illustrated by 264 Reproductions of Which 5 Are in Black and 14 in Coloured Supplements.
Prague Essays: Presented by a Group of British Historians to the Caroline University of Prague on the Occasion of Its Six-Hundredth Anniversary.
Excerpts from Bohemian Chronicle of Cosmas of Prague.
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 The Avalon Project : Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia - Lecture I
The same is asserted of the old Bohemians or Czechs in the account given of their manners and customs by Cosmas of Prague, a Latin annalist of the eleventh century, who says: Connubia erant illis communia.
Let me first quote the words of Cosmas of Prague, which relate to this subject, and then show you what illustration they find both in written literature, and in popular ballads and songs.
Confronted with the facts just brought forward, the popular legend, reported by Cosmas in his chronicle, of a kind of Bohemian Amazons, who took an active part in the wars of the time, appears in its true light.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/econ/koval1.htm   (5914 words)

  
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When calm was restored to Europe after the great wave of mass migration that ended in around the 8th century, Slavs pushed into present-day Saxony.
In the year 1120 the Czech chronicler Cosmas of Prague coined the name "Srbia" for the territory known as the Mark Meißen.
Originating at that time, as well, are the Saxon place names with the -itz suffix, closely related to the Slavic place names ending in -ic, for example: Görlitz, Oelsnitz, and Chemnitz.
www.smwk.de /en/kf/kunst/3082.htm   (1383 words)

  
 Czech literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The legends of St. Wenceslaus, composed in that century, were written in Old Church Slavonic.
Until c.1400, Czech literature consisted mainly of Latin chronicles (Cosmas of Prague, 1125) and of Czech hymns, tales of chivalry, and romances in verse.
The German occupation saw the destruction of Czech literary art and the death of many outstanding figures.
www.bartleby.com /65/cz/Czechlit.html   (664 words)

  
 Charles' Bridge (Karluv most) | Prague Spot
PRAGUE spot » About Prague » Prague travel guide » Charles' Bridge (Karluv most)
The Square of the Knights of the Cross once led to what was formerly Prague's Judith Bridge.
It was built from 1158 to 1172 at a time when Dresden and Regensburg were the only other Central European countries with stone bridges.
www.prague-spot.com /charles-bridge   (761 words)

  
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Hastening toward Prague:  Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Cosmas of Prague, Chronicle of the Czechs (an English translation from Latin)
“Identity and Politics in the Twelfth-Century Czech Lands:  Cosmas of Prague’s Chronica Boemorum,” Seventh Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies, University of Miami, February 20, 1998.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~lwolvert/web-cv.htm   (499 words)

  
 Good King Wenceslas:
Canon Cosmas of Prague, in his Chronica Boemorum, offers the first narrative history of the Czech people.
Among his first deeds as prince, Wenceslas set about seeking the canonization of his grandmother—according to the traditions of the Latin Church, he ordered her remains to be translated from Tetín to Prague for interment.
Wenceslas was translated from Boleslav’s castle, Mladá Boleslav, to Saint Vitus’ Cathedral in Prague on March 4.
www.geocities.com /dhaytock/writings/title.wenceslas.html   (6186 words)

  
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Historical literature in the form of the Chronica Bohemorum by Cosmas of Prague displays a “critical spirit unsual for his day” (Sedlar, 432) and includes material derived from actual documents.
In many towns, the higher social stratas were composed of German-speaking Czechs, and the the Imperial Court at Prague had high German representation.
Chronica Boemorum (1119-22) by Cosmas, dean of Prague Chapter 1045-1125.
members.shaw.ca /eliska_vraba/lit.html   (1312 words)

  
 Lisa Wolverton
My research focuses on the analysis of society and politics in the Czech Lands (today’s Czech Republic) during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries.
My recent book, Hastening Toward Prague: Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), anatomizes the structure and dynamics of power in eleventh- and twelfth-century Bohemia.
My current projects include an English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague and a companion monograph entitled Cosmas of Prague and the Birth of a National History.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~lwolvert   (143 words)

  
 Slavic and Eastern European Collections-A Research Guide to Czech History: VII. Dissertations
Cohen, Gary B. The politics of ethnic survival : Germans in Prague, 1861-1914.
Spector, Scott D. Prague territories : nationality, culture, and the German-speaking Jewish writers of Prague from fin-de-siècle through World War I. [Thesis (Ph.
Hastening toward Prague : power and society in the medieval Czech lands.
www.lib.unc.edu /cdd/crs/international/slavic/guides/cz/dissertcz.html   (1727 words)

  
 Prague hotels and accommodation sites - Devil's Bible likely to return to Prague in digitalised form
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of Bohemia, written by Cosmas of Prague, and a calendar.
Prague hotels & Prague hotel search - Apartments, B&B and Hotels in Prague, sighseeingtours, city info.
www.prague.st /upload_ctk/articles/czech-sweden-literature-bible_20051005F01504.php   (857 words)

  
 Fr. Nicoll's Course Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Volkmar's group arrived in Prague and on 30 June began to massacre Jews.
The lay authorities were unable to curb them and the vehement protests of Prague's Bishop Cosmas went unheeded.
Ekkehard (of Aura, Hierosolymita) praised the persecution of "these execrable people" who were "enemies within the Church." However, Cosmas of Prague held it uncanonical to baptize Jews forcibly.
www.loyno.edu /~nicoll/WorldCivFall/14chrismed.htm   (7103 words)

  
 Are Russian Jews Descended from the German and Bohemian Jews?
The first evidence that Central European Jews migrated eastward (and eventually met up with other existing communities of the east, such as the East-Slavic Jews) comes from the 11th century.
Some historians have claimed that the chronicler Cosmas of Prague wrote about Jews migrating from Bohemia into Poland, but the actual text merely says that some Jews fled and other transferred their property into Poland and Hungary, and there are no other details provided by Cosmas.
But this idea was confirmed by the research of the onomastician Alexander Beider, who showed (using actual documents) in his book
www.khazaria.com /westernjews.html   (738 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Women at the Beginning : Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary: Books: Patrick J. Geary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
CAPs: Middle Ages, Charles the Bald, Baldwin Iron Arm, Cosmas of Prague, Empress Judith (more)
These texts, which span over a thousand years of time and an equally great spectrum of cultures and traditions, have in common that their authors, all men, are in some way writing about the beginnings: the beginnings of peoples, of families, of nations, of religions.
Middle Ages, Charles the Bald, Baldwin Iron Arm, Cosmas of Prague, Empress Judith, Jesus's Davidic, Louis the Pious, Count Baldwin, Paul the Deacon, Tree of Jesse, Gothic Amazons
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691124094?v=glance   (825 words)

  
 MAGPIE 38!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Keep an eye on the Warp site for more info.
LOS ANGELES - The city of Springfield, Fla., will soon be getting 15 new squad cars equipped with the latest in computer databases, satellite tracking, and back-seat jail bars.
They muse that logos might end up on the lapels or trousers of cop uniforms — in the same way that a woman recently began selling ad space on her bowling skirt, and a bald head offered his head to the highest advertising bidder on eBay.
www.jaybabcock.com /magpie38.html   (11042 words)

  
 Medieval Studies Theses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Džidrova, Ljubinka: A passage to the Middle Ages : late antique towns on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia in the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Felskau, Christian-Frederik: The Franciscans in Prague : apocalyptic awaiting, poverty perception and church-critique in the first and last third of the 14th century
DeLazero, Octav Eugen: The dynastic myth of the Přemyslids in Cosmas of Prague's Chronica Boemorum
www.library.ceu.hu /Theses/Medtheses.htm   (4385 words)

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