KOMÁRKOVÁ, Hana. The City Council Renewal Ceremony in the Light of Council Mirrors of Late Medieval and Early Modern Times. In International Medieval Congress 2022. 2022.
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Original name The City Council Renewal Ceremony in the Light of Council Mirrors of Late Medieval and Early Modern Times.
Authors KOMÁRKOVÁ, Hana.
Edition International Medieval Congress 2022, 2022.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60101 History
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Keywords in English Council Mirrors, Late Medieval Times, Early Modern Times, City Council Renewal Ceremony, Opava
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Hana Komárková, Ph.D., učo 27664. Changed: 29/12/2022 20:24.
Abstract
Even though the pre-modern urban society was the bearer of modernization, its functionality was based on firmly rooted and ostentatiously presented traditional principles, which was also reflected in the form and functioning of municipal institutions. As the Czech historian Josef Hrdlička emphasized in his work dedicated to the early-modern annual renewal ceremony of city council, it was precisely this election and installation ceremony that demonstrates the desirable values on which urban society structures were to be built – those that were old and traditional and represented continuity and also the newly accepted ones. In my presentation I would like to focus on the 16th century records describing city council renewal ceremony from the early modern Silesian town of Opava. In the following minutes, I will firstly introduce the approach of Czech historiography (respectively the approach of the aforementioned historian, Josef Hrdlička) towards this phenomenon and then I will introduce a mid-16th century manuscript - the Council Mirror of Opava (Ratesspiegel), where the description of the renewal ceremony of city council and the installation ceremony of other representatives of urban administration was recorded.
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