Praha 1580-1680, místo konfesijních střetů – Státníková Pavla (2021)

The publication was created as part of the project of the Museum of the Capital City of Prague, prepared in professional collaboration with the Archive of the Capital City of Prague and leading experts on the topic, for the four hundredth anniversary of the Battle of White Mountain (November 8, 1620) and the execution of twenty-seven Czech lords at Old Town Square (June 21, 1621). Both milestones – the battle and the execution, as central points of the entire project – symbolize a significant turning point in the religious-political development of the Czech lands and their capital. The publication will guide us first through pre-White Mountain and relatively free-thinking Prague at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, the dramatic events of 1620-1621, the uncertain and cruel years of the Thirty Years' War, and the first post-war decades in the reconstructed and re-Catholicized country. Prague is presented not only as a stage for historical events that influenced the political development of Europe but especially as an important active agent of this development...