Silver Mining in the Kingdom of Bohemia (13th-14th Centuries)

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-50633-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 91, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 292 mm, Gewicht: 1360 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

In the 13th century, the monarchs of the Premyslid dynasty, whose territory overlapped with that of the present-day Czech Republic, were increasingly affected by the dismal state of the Crown's finances. As a result, the Premyslids initiated intensive silver exploitation, among other means to ensure income. This book's objective, based on interdisciplinary research, is therefore to describe and present the structure of mining and metallurgical areas in the kingdom of Bohemia, as well as to examine and identify how ore mining and metallurgy shaped and interacted with settlement organization and the medieval landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hrubý, Petr

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Petr Hrubý, Ph.D. (2009), Charles University, is an associate professor of medieval archaeology at Masaryk University in Brno. He has authored numerous monographs and articles on mining and landscape archaeology, including The Medieval Mining Centre of Buchberg (Památky archeologické, 2021).