SILVER AND GLASS IN MEDIEVAL TRADE AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN VENICE AND THE KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA

• Authors: Zaoral Roman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study was written with two main intentions. The first idea is to refer to the connection between reforms of coins, weights and measures, realized in the 1260s and 1270s from the decision of Premysl II Ottokar, King of Bohemia (1253-1278), and legal and administrative changes, carried out at the mint of Venice (Zecca) and the house of German merchants (Fondaco dei Tedeschi), as a background for the development of trade contacts between the Kingdom of Bohemia and Venice. The second aim is to point to the fact that this long-distance trade had a cultural dimension. The archaeological finds from the Czech lands support a direct connection between exported silver bullion and imported Islamic and Italian glass, linked to a high dining culture focused on a wine consumption.

Keywords

EN

13TH CENTURY; CULTURAL EXCHANGE; KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA; LONG-DISTANCE TRADE; MONETARY REFORMS; VENICE

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 109
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 235-261
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zaoral Roman

• Roman Zaoral, Fakulta humanitnich studii Univerzity Karlovy, U Krize 8, 15600 Praha 5, Praha, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA097218