CONTENTS

STUDIA ET COMMENTATIONES

Jiří Smrž, Správa Malé Strany v 16. a 17. století v rozšířených pamětních zápisech o obnovách městských rad [The Lesser Quarter Administration in the 16th and 17th Century in Expanded Commemorative Records on the Restoration of the City Councils]
11–76

Abstract
The study describes the appearance and structure of city administration in the Lesser Quarter in the second half of the 16th century and during the 17th century. The reconstruction is based on unutilised sources – commemorative records on the renewal of city councils supplemented with the names of the heads of the individual city offices and city guilds. Twenty-five such records from the periods of 1572–1580, 1630–1678 and 1694 are currently known, with a time lag of one year to five years between individual records. The character of the sources makes it possible to reconstruct the political careers of roughly nine-hundred burghers. On the one hand, the personnel analysis enabled the identification of city offices listed in sources under different designations and to reveal the interconnection between them, especially the role of councillors who supervised the activities of lower municipal authorities. This made it possible to systematise the bodies of the Lesser Quarter administrative apparatus and to describe its individual levels.

Keywords: Prague Lesser Quarter – Early Modern period – city administration – city council – city elders – specialised authorities

Pavlína Gottsteinová, Nové Město pražské ve světle vizitačního protokolu tereziánského katastru z roku 1725 [Prague New Town in the Light of the Visitation Protocol of the Teresian Cadastre from 1725]
77–144

Abstract
The study describes the housing development of Early Modern Prague based on data from a unique historical source – the visitation protocol of the Teresian Cadastre for the Prague towns from the years 1725–1726. While the work focusses primarily on Prague’s New Town, in many cases it also compares obtained data with Prague’s Old Town and the Lesser Quarter. Besides the introduction, where the current state of research and basic information regarding sources is summarised, the work contains eight comprehensive topics that can be developed on the basis of the visitation protocol. These concern the total number of houses, their division according to taxation, the profession and income of house owners and real estate prices. The exterior appearance of the houses is evaluated on the basis of the listed construction status, building material and the number of floors. Attention is also paid to gardens, especially their size and the overall open space within the New Town walls. The issue of tenants and the preparation and consumption of beer in New Town pubs is also discussed. The visitation tables of the Teresian Cadastre offer a wide range of topics for study, and these can be addressed by other scholars thanks to having been edited. Basic information on the editing of these visitation tables, which, however, cannot be included in this study for technical reasons, is presented at the end of this article.

Keywords: Prague New Town – Early Modern period – 18th century – Teresian Cadastre – visitation protocol – town structure

Helena Chalupová, Cesta ztracené pečeti tokem dějin – pohnutý osud Jiříka Šverhamra [The Path of a Lost Seal Through the Flow of History – the Troubled Fate of Jiřík Šverhamr]
145–172

Abstract
The subject of the article is an urban legend whose basic principle is the combination of fact and fiction. The main point of the work is the analysis of an Old Prague tale tied to the U Křížku (At the Cross) house in Martinská St. in Prague. Václav Hájek of Libočany incorporated its main protagonist, Jiří Šverhamr, into Czech history and it gradually became one of the important parts of Prague legend and the urban history of Prague as such. The article outlines the genesis of the account of Šverhamr’s death for the fateful seal over time, especially the interesting update potential this tale had at the time of growing Czech–German antagonism.

Keywords: Prague – Václav Hájek of Libočany – Chronicle of Bohemians – legend – historical knowledge

Roman Prahl, Od „Mahabharáty“ po „Krčmu umělců“. K vývoji pražské bohémy v druhé polovině devadesátých let 19. století [From the “Mahabharata” to the “Artists’ Pub”. On the Development of Prague Bohemianism in the Second Half of the 1890s]
173–192

Abstract
The professionally- and generationally-mixed Mahabharata table society was the most famous centre of Prague bohemians, but also included personalities who in time became part of the cultural mainstream. The Mahabharata circle became the main source for the building of the “Nonsense” Artists’ Pub for the Prague Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering held in 1898. The article mainly addresses the contribution of artists to its construction, with the aim of identifying the decorative program of the Pub and its individual parts. The author explores the Pub in the revolutionary cultural context and ideologically differentiated environment. The Pub was a creation in which its actors and adherents still managed to come together as a representative image of the Prague bohemian scene. However, the revision of the existing concept of bohemianism had already begun, especially in connection with emerging artistic and literary modernism.

Keywords: Prague – 1898 Prague Exhibition of Architecture and Engineering – Mahabharata table society – bohemianism in Prague – artist groups – artistic pub decoration

Jitka Ludvová, Rakouské tradice v českém divadelnictví. Rakouští divadelníci v Praze v meziválečné době [Austrian Traditions in Czech Theatre. Austrian Theatre Makers in Prague in the Interwar Period]
193–223

Abstract
The article analyses the legislative continuity of theatre in Czechoslovakia after 1918 with the legacy of the Austro Hungarian monarchy. The work describes the interwar organisation of German theatre, the working conditions in Czechoslovak theatres for foreign nationals and provides information regarding the guest performances of Viennese theatre troupes and individuals in Prague in 1922–1938.

Keywords: Prague – 20th century – Austrian theatre in Prague – German theatre associations in Prague

MATERIALIA

Petr Kreuz, Arbitrážní (ubrmanské) výroky městského soudu Starého Města pražského a soudu spojených pražských měst z doby jagellonské. Příspěvek k poznání mediace a urovnávání sporů v pozdně středověké Praze [Arbitration (Uberman) Rulings of the Prague Old Town Municipal Court and the Court of the Joined Prague Towns from the Jagiellon Period. Mediation and the Settlement of Disputes in Late Medieval Prague]
227–311

Abstract
The article addresses the issue of out-of-court settlement and the mediation of disputes. The first part of the work summarises knowledge of early Czech research on ubermen (umpires, arbitrators). These were a traditional Bohemian medieval and Early Modern legal institute, especially in provincial law, intended for the out-of-court resolution of disputes in the form of “settlement” (i.e., dispute settlement agreements). Detailed attention is then paid to the development of measures on arbitration, ubermen and conciliation treaties in the municipal law of the Czech Lands, starting with the Brno legal book of scribe Jan (second half of the 1350s) and ending with the codification of Czech municipal law from 1579. The main part of the study is based on an analysis of a set of 22 conciliation statements, arbitration agreements and the settlement of disputes from the Jagiellonian era from 1500–1524, which are written in the book of rulings (liber sententiarum – Book of Sentences) of Prague’s Old Town in 1479–1531 and in the book of rulings of the joint Prague towns in 1518–1527.

Keywords: Prague – mediation – infrajustice – conciliatory agreements – arbitrator rulings – uberman/arbitrator – books of rulings

Tomáš Velička, Pásy jako oděvní doplněk v Praze 14. až 16. století v písemných pramenech [Belts as a Clothing Accessory in 14th– to 16th-Century Prague in Written Sources]
313–377

Abstract
The aim of the study is to present the role of belts in 14th- to 16th-century Prague society. The study is divided into three parts. The first part describes the production of belts in Prague’s Old Town and New Town, especially their organisation of guild production (goldsmiths and beltmakers). Attention is also devoted to the social profile of both craft specialisations. The second part of the article discusses the belt trade, which can only be captured in more specific terms at the end of the 16th century. The final part deals with the distribution of clothing accessories (especially belts) owned by Prague burghers through testaments and, for the later period, estate inventories.

Keywords: Prague Old Town – Prague New Town – beltmakers – goldsmiths – trade – testaments – estate inventories – belts

Marek Lašťovka – Barbora Lašťovková , Proměny pražského uličního názvosloví v letech 1945–1990 [Changes in Prague Street Names, 1945–1990]
379–392

Abstract
Changes to the names of Prague streets during the period of socialism can be separated into three basic categories. (1) Mass changes in names as the result of the incorporation of surrounding villages into the capital city in 1968 and 1974. The number of streets doubled in these two years and after the incorporation of the previously independent villages, there were numerous duplicitous names. This occurred relatively shortly after this duplicity, persisting for years after the creation of “Greater Prague” on 1 January 1922, had been eliminated. (2) A great construction boom in the 1970s and 1980s involved the creation of large housing estates in the newly incorporated towns and villages. The new streets that were created at the time had to be named. Apparently, development of this type creates the possibility of using names for political and social propaganda, though with the number of streets that Prague had (c. 6,500), it was more about where to find inspiration during the naming process and searching for new names. (3) Great attention has always been paid to the politically and ideologically motivated renaming (or new names in a small number of cases) of public spaces. Whiles their numbers were not great, the process was often accompanied by ceremonies and the names served (or were meant to serve) as memorials. Precisely because of ideology, the majority of these names have not lasted until today.

Keywords: Prague – socialist city – street names – nomenclature – renaming

Jan Bílek, Místa setkávání Čapkových pátečníků [The Meeting Places of the “Friday Men”]
393–408

Abstract
The article addresses Karel Čápek’s separate flat at Říční St. No. 532, where the writer lived in 1922–1925, and his house at Úzká St. No. 1853 with an adjacent garden, where he resided in 1925–1938. The work addresses these residences as the places where a private group of intellectuals known as the “Friday Men” met in the years 1924–1938.

Keywords: Prague – Karel Čapek – Čapek brothers’ villa and garden – “Friday Men” – Czech cultural history

EX ARCHIVO METROPOLIS PRAGAE

Václav Ledvinka, Praha v roce nula. Stav hlavního města na konci komunistické éry a cesta k sametové revoluci [Prague in Year “Zero”. The State of the Capital City at the End of the Communist Era and the Path to the Velvet Revolution]
411–428

Abstract
The work provides a short retrospective look at the development of Prague in the period of so-called normalisation (1969–1989), which led to the events of 17 November 1989 and the Velvet Revolution. Originally written in 1999, the text was reworked in 2008 into the introductory chapter of a book planned for publication on the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The book was never released, and the chapter is published here for the first time. It is introduced by a brief foreword and reflection by the author on the importance of publishing the period testimony of direct participants and eye witnesses to the events of the latest history, especially the accounts of professional historians and archivists.

Keywords: Prague – National Committee of the Capital City of Prague – normalisation – Palach Week unrest – Velvet Revolution – Civic Forum

RECENSIONES LIBRORUM
431–535

Pragensia

Karel IV. a Emauzy. Liturgie, text, obraz, (edd.) Kateřina Kubínová a kol. (Tomáš Sekyrka)

Böhmische Bürgertestamente des 15. Jahrhunderts, (Hrsg.) Thomas Krzenck (Kateřina Jíšová)

Mlada Holá, Studentské koleje pražské univerzity v pozdním středověku a raném novověku. Dějiny – správa – úřední písemnosti (do roku 1622) (Michal Svatoš)

Štěpán Vácha – Radka Heisslerová, Ve stínu Karla Škréty. Pražští malíři v letech 1635–1680. Antonín Stevens, Jan Bedřich Hess, Matěj Zimprecht (Tomáš Sekyrka)

Milan Vojáček – Pavla Lutovská – Pavel Koblasa, Bachova kartotéka. Databáze obyvatel pražské aglomerace z let 1850–1914 (Jiří Pešek)

Pavel Kladiwa – Petr Kadlec – Dan Gawrecki – Andrea Pokludová – Petr Popelka, Národnostní statistika v českých zemích 1880–1930. Mechanismy, problémy a důsledky národnostní klasifikace I–II (Jiří Pešek)

Urbana

Ladislav Baletka – Tomáš Baletka – Eva Čermáková – Zdeněk Pomkla, Valašské Meziříčí. Historie, kultura, lidé (Hana Gutová Vobrátilková)

Gerhard Ammerer – Christoph Brandhuber, Schwert und Galgen. Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Salzburg (Petr Kreuz)

Beat Fumasoli, Wirtschaftserfolg zwischen Zufall und Innovativität. Oberdeutsche Städte und ihre Exportwirtschaft im Vergleich (1350–1550) (Martin Nodl)

Piotr Samól, Młode miasto Gdańsk (1380–1455) i jego patrimonium (Martin Nodl)

Die Wiener Stadtbücher 1395–1430. Teil 5: 1418–1421, (Hrsg.) Gerhard Jaritz – Christian Neschwara (Hana Pátková)

Würzburger Ratsprotokolle 1454–1465. Bearbeitet von Antonia Bieber unter Mitwirkung von Stefan Petersen und Rainer Scharf, (Hrsg.) Franz Fuchs – Ulrich Wagner (Martin Nodl)

Paweł A. Jeziorski, Proskrypcja i banicja w miastach pruskich późnego średniowiecza (Martin Nodl)

Eva Jullien, Die Handwerker und Zünfte der Stadt Luxemburg im Spätmittelalter (Jiří Smrž)

Vorderfflik Twistringhe unde Twydracht. Städtische Konflikte im späten Mittelalter, (Hrsg.) Rudolf Holbach – David Weiss (Martin Nodl)

Kriminalregister der Stadt Dresden. Band 2: 1556–1580. Bearbeitet von Mandy Ettelt, (Hrsg.) Thomas Kübler – Jörg Oberste (Petr Kreuz)

Karin Trieschnigg, Dr. Johannes Moeden, 1592–1663. Heiratsschwindler – Bürgermeister – Hexenjäger. Zur Karriere eines Juristen im 17. Jahrhundert (Petr Kreuz)

Michael Prokosch, Das älteste Bürgerbuch der Stadt Linz (1658–1707). Edition und Auswertung (Ivana Ebelová)

Ferdinand Opll – Martin Scheutz, Die Transformation des Wiener Stadtbildes um 1700. Die Vogelschau des Bernhard Georg Andermüller von 1703 und der Stadtplan des Michel Herstal de la Tache von 1695/97 (Jiří Hrbek)

Raimo Pullat, Świat rzeczy mieszkańca Tallinna w dobie oświecenia (Olga Fejtová)

Geschichte der Stadt Leipzig. Band 3: Vom Wiener Kongress bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, (Hrsg.) Susanne Schötz (Jakub Raška)

Migration und Innovation um 1900. Perspektiven auf das Wien der Jahrhundertwende, (Hrsg.) Elisabeth Röhrlich unter Mitarbeit von Agnes Meisinger (Nina Lohmann)

Martin Jemelka – Ondřej Ševeček, Tovární města Baťova koncernu. Evropská kapitola globální expanze (Ondřej Hojda)

Petr Koura, Swingaři a potápky v protektorátní noci. Česká swingová mládež a její hořkej svět (Jiří Pešek)

ARCHEOLOGICA
539–666

Zdeněk Dragoun et al., Archeologický výzkum v Praze v letech 2017–2018 [Archaeological Research in Prague in 2017–2018]

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List of illustrations 667
List of authors 669