A Prince or a Pauper? Staging Noble Lineage in the Coronation Order of Emperor Charles IV

• Eliska Polácková ^[1]
  1. [1] Masaryk University

     Masaryk University

     Chequia

     
• Localización: European Medieval Drama, ISSN 1378-2274, ISSN-e 2031-0064, Nº. 22, 2018, págs. 149-169
• Idioma: varios idiomas
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• Resumen

  • During the reign of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, the Czech lands experienced not only an unprecedented cultural blossoming marked by the production of outstanding artistic and architectural objects often meant to be exported to different parts of Europe, but also a period of remarkable political consolidation. Besides numerous founding activities and artistic commissions, the Emperor prompted the composition of several literary texts, one of them (the subject of this article) being a new coronation order of Czech kings. In an unmistakeably theatrical fashion, it stressed their descent from the local House of Przemyslid by means of a non-liturgical Ceremony of Bag and Sandals that allegedly belonged to the first Przemyslid ruler, Przemysl the Ploughman.