The Monarch and the Town. Princes and Kings Versus Kraków at the turn of the 13th and 14th Centuries
The Monarch and the Town. Princes and Kings Versus Kraków at the turn of the 13th and 14th Centuries
Author(s): Andrzej MarzecSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Cultural history, Diplomatic history, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Middle Ages, Theology and Religion, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach
Keywords: Kraków monarchs; Poland; Boleslaus the Shy; Leszek the Black; Wenceslaus II of Bohemia; Wladysław Łokietek; Political relations;
Summary/Abstract: The paper researches the history of manifold political relations between the Kraków monarchs, the developing towns of Lesser Poland growing into an economically important position, the clergy, and in particular the powerful bishops, and the class of knights at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. In the history of Poland this is an important period of many and varied pressures in the struggle for power and both political and economic prevalence. In particular the paper focuses on the relations of four consecutive princes, Boleslaus the Shy, Leszek the Black, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, and Wladysław Łokietek with the town of Kraków, located by the first of them, and then developing under the royal privileges, until the rebellion of Albert and loss of the political and economic position under the last prince.
Journal: The City and History (Mesto a dejiny until 2019)
- Issue Year: 1/2012
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 39-47
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English