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Francis hrabe Lützow. The Story of Prague
The Story of Prague
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Story of Prague
CHAPTER I. Prague at the Earliest Period
CHAPTER II. From the Reign of Charles IV. to the Executions at Prague in 1621
CHAPTER III. Prague in Modern Times
CHAPTER IV. Palaces
CHAPTER V. Churches and Monasteries
CHAPTER VI. The Bohemian Museum
CHAPTER VII. Walks in Prague
CHAPTER VIII. Walks and Excursions near Prague
Footnote
APPENDIX
AUTHORITIES
INDEX
Footnote
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Francis hrabe Lützow
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The successor of St. Wenceslas, Boleslav I., whom Palacky calls ‘one of the most powerful monarchs that ever occupied the Bohemian throne,’ greatly extended the frontiers of his country, a fact that necessarily largely increased the importance of his capital; but of yet greater importance for the development of Prague was—in accordance with the ideas of the time—the foundation of the bishopric in 973. It took place during the reign of Boleslav II., the son and successor of Boleslav I. Bohemia had formerly belonged to the diocese of Regensburg or Ratisbon. At the time of the foundation the Bohemian princes ruled not only over Bohemia and its sister lands (Moravia and Silesia), but also over Southern Poland, Galicia and a large part of Northern Hungary. All these countries formed parts of the new bishopric of Prague. Palacky justly regrets that an archbishopric was not founded for so vast an extent of land. It is only several centuries later that Prague became an archbishopric. The first bishop, Thietmar, was, after a short time, succeeded by Vojtech or Adalbert, a Bohemian who was afterwards sainted and is still one of the patrons of the country. After the death of Boleslav II., in 999, civil war broke out in Bohemia, and the development of Prague was necessarily retarded.
