Dowry Towns of the Bohemian Queens (reprint 2024)

In the Middle Ages, the financial and material provision of Bohemian queens, consisting mainly of gifts, purchases, revenues from manors, estates and later also revenues from towns, were among the acts that became part of the legal space then. The queens drew their perquisites mainly from several towns in Bohemia; Hradec Králové, Chrudim, Vysoké Mýto, Polička, Jaroměř, Dvůr Králové nad Labem, Trutnov, Nový Bydžov, Mělník and temporarily Teplice, nobility-owned towns in the temporary ownership of the Queen shortly in the time of the House of, gave rise to a special category of dowry towns from a number of aspects among the Bohemian royal towns. The publication Dowry Towns of the Bohemian Queens deals with many problems and questions, which are closely related to the origin and development of the phenomenon of dowry towns. It resolves in separate, temporally or thematically conceived chapters, which intertwine and complement one another; they offer variants of views, which eventually lead to a synthesizing, synergistic continuity of individual themes while preserving their colourfulness and diversity.

The publication was prepared within the solution and with the financial support of the project NAKI II (a programme supporting applied research and experimental development of the national and cultural identity), Dowry Towns of Bohemian Queens (A Living Part of Awareness of the History and its Support by Means of Historical Geography, Vitual Reality and Cyberspace), No. DG18P02OVV015.