House Owners - Tenants - Lodgers. The Topography of Tenement Houses in Medieval Prague

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.33542/CAH2024-1-01" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.33542/CAH2024-1-01</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33542/CAH2024-1-01" target="_blank" >10.33542/CAH2024-1-01</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

House Owners - Tenants - Lodgers. The Topography of Tenement Houses in Medieval Prague

Original language description

The phenomenon of tenement housing in medieval Prague is as yet understudied. This study attempts to outline the character of tenement housing on the basis of extant written sources from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries using an interdisciplinary perspective and the prism of four select themes: 1. contracts of lease, 2. the town house and its layout from the viewpoint of history and construction history, 3. analysis of Old Town tenement books for 1427 and 1429, 4. the social structure of inhabitants of an average Prague house using the example of three persons: the owner, the tenant-conventor, and the lodger-inquilinus. It appears that the Prague agglomeration being the centre of the Czech lands and the residence of the ruling Luxembourg dynasty, it was an exclusive urban centre in which only the members of the urban upper and upper-middle classes could afford to own a house. Small craftsmen and tradesmen had to rent their living space and workspace. The metropolis experienced a construction boom throughout the fourteenth century. Building lots were much more densely covered and dozens of new houses appeared built for the purpose of tenement housing (as opposed to being the residence of the owner). It is clear that this development had a significant impact on the architecture and urban structure of the medieval city.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The City and History

ISSN

1339-0163

e-ISSN

1339-0163

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

31

Pages from-to

6-36

UT code for WoS article

001348332300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85208370660