Apatykáři na starém městě pražském ve středověku. Příspěvek k možnostem sociotopografické analýzy v areálu pražského souměstí na příkladě osob zabývajících se vykonáváním lékárnického povolání

• Authors: Martin Musílek

Title variants

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APOTHECARIES IN THE OLD TOWN OF PRAGUE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Apothecaries in the Old Town of Prague played an important role in the Middle Ages which resulted from the usefulness of thein profession. The most significant and richest apothecaries in the Old Town of Prague hned houses in central locations. Many of them had vineyards, hop-fields or mills and some of them had a significant income from renting or holding farms in the country. Beside a signifiant wealth and ownership of real property they frequently became members of the town council. Like other significant town patricians, apothecaries took advantage of the possibility to ostentatiously demonstrate their importance by visibly carrying a weapon, using their own seals, impressively decorating the inside and outside of their houses and giving large donations to religious institutions. Based on these facts we need to rank some apothecary families among the elite class of town citizens, i.e. members of the patriciate.

Keywords

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BOHEMIA; PRAGUE; OLD TOWN OF PRAGUE; PHARMACY; DOCTOR (APOTHECARY); TOWN ELITE; TOWN COUNCILS; FARMS IN THE COUNTRY; ROYAL COURT; SOCIAL AND TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 97-137

Contributors

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Martin Musílek

• Centrum medievistických studií, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic