Political literature flowered and progressed considerably in Fourteenth-century Bohemia : as well... more Political literature flowered and progressed considerably in Fourteenth-century Bohemia : as well as in the rest of Western Europe, this literature reflected political engagement and was written in vernacular. This tendency is analysed on the basis of the genre of the mirrors for princes in two main directions. The first part deals with the role played by the image of the wise king (rex sapiens) in the ideology and self-presentation of the Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg. The second part focuses on the political society of Bohemia reflected in the poem New Council by Smil Flaška of Pardubice, which is highly polemical and critical of the reign of his son Wenceslaus IV.
Political literature flowered and progressed considerably in Fourteenth-century Bohemia : as well... more Political literature flowered and progressed considerably in Fourteenth-century Bohemia : as well as in the rest of Western Europe, this literature reflected political engagement and was written in vernacular. This tendency is analysed on the basis of the genre of the mirrors for princes in two main directions. The first part deals with the role played by the image of the wise king (rex sapiens) in the ideology and self-presentation of the Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg. The second part focuses on the political society of Bohemia reflected in the poem New Council by Smil Flaška of Pardubice, which is highly polemical and critical of the reign of his son Wenceslaus IV.
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