by Peter Demetz
Pepys, Samuel
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
Peroutka, Ferdinand
Perutz, Leo
Peter, Master
Peter of Dresden
Peter of Mladenovice
Peter of Zittau
Petra of ian
Pettarch, Francesco
Pfalz, Anna von der
Pfempfert, Franz
Philip II, King of Spain
Piarists
Piasts
Picardians
Piccione, General
Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius
Pichler, Caroline
Pierre of Fécamp
Pillersdorf, Count
Pinkas, Adolf Maria
Pirovene. Maifreda da
Pištk, Theodor, Jr.
Pistorius, Johannes
Pius II, Pope
Pius IV, Pope
Pius XI, Pope
Pixis, F. W.
Plankenstern, Raimund Wetzlar von
Plato
Plenik, Jože
Pofta, Pan
Podiva
Podiven
“Podkoní a žk” (“The Groom and the Student”)
Pogodin. Mikhail
Poles
Polish kings
Polizzotti, Mark
Pollak, Ernst
Polyxena of Lobkovic
Ponte, Lorenzo da
Ponziani, Felice
Poor Clares
Popel, Jii
Popel, Zdenk
Porges and Sons
Poslední Cech (The Last Czech) (Tyl)
Possart, Ernst
Postl, Karl
Praemonstratenses
Praga Magica (Ripellino)
Praga Mystica (Bechyka)
Prager Tagblatt
Prague Linguistic Circle
Prague Symphony (Mozart)
Prague University; Estates as administrator of; Hus and; literature and; during Thirty Years’ War
Praha legend a skuteností (Krejí)
Pražské Noviny (Prague News)
Preininger, Václav
Pemysl
Pemyslids; in Austria; burial place of; Charles IV and; Christianity and; consolidation of power of; Cosma on; Jews and; Poles and; Smetana’s opera about; women of; see also specific kings
Prokop the Great
Protestants; and Czech historiography; English; Joseph II and; Rudolf II and; in Thirty Years’ War
Protiva, Jan
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The (Nilus)
Ptolemy
Pucci, Francesco.
Puchník, Nicholas
Purgatorio (Dante)
Pusch, Peregrin
Pushkin, Alexander
Quade van Ravesteyn, Dirck de
Raabe, Wilhelm
Rádl, Emanuel
Radziwill, Prince
Raffelstetten Customs Ordinance
Ramée, Colonel
Ranconis de Ericinio, Adalbertus
Ranke, Leopold
Rakv, Vojtch, see Ranconis de Ericinio, Adalbertus
Rashi
Rašin, Alois
Ratti, Achille
Rausnitz, Rahel
Rautenstock, Bartholomäus
Realists
Red Army
Reformation
Regulae veteris et novi testamenti (Matj)
Reiger, F. L.
Rejsek, Matj
Renart, Jacques
Repeal Club
Requiem (Mozart)
Reuchlin, Johannes
revolution of
Richard II, King of England
Richard of Cornwall
Richelieu, Cardinal
Rienzo, Cola di
Rieth, Benedikt,.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Ringhoffer, František.
Ripellino, Angelo Maria
Robba, Jacopo
Robbers (Schiller)
Rosenberg-Orsini, Franz Xaver Count
Rošický, Jaroslav
Rosicrucians
Rosières, Pierre de
Rossi, Azariah ben Moses dei
Rostislav, Prince
Roth, Susanna
Rotlöw, Johannes
Royal Bohemian Society of Science
Rožmberk clan
Rub a líc (Heads or Tails) (Voskovec and Werich)
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary
Rudolf II, Emperor; alchemists and; Braunschweig and; illegitimate children of; Jews and as patron of arts, Russwurm and; scientists and
Rudolf of Hapsburg
Rukopisy
Rumpf, Wolf
Rüpel, Leander
Ruppert, Ludwig
Ruprecht of the Palatinate
Russian Revolution
Russwurm, Christian Hermann Baron
Rvaka, Maurice
Sabina, Karel
Sadeler, Aegidius
Sádlo, Jan
Šafaík, Pavel Josef
St. Wenceslas Committee
Salda, F. X , 313
Salieri, Antonio
Sallust
Šaloun, Ladislav
Šámal, Pemysl
Sammons, Jeffrey L.
San Clemente, Guillén de
Sand, George
Saporiti, Teresa
Saramita, Andrea
Saudek, Erik
Savery, Roelandt
Scheiner, František
Schenk von Rossberg, Ottilie
Schiller, Friedrich
Schindel, Andreas
Schlegel, Friedrich
Schlesinger, Alfred
Schlesinger, Rudolf
Schlick, Albin
Schlick, Joachim Andreas Count
Schonbom, Count Adalbert
Schonfeld family
Schuh, Barbara
Schweinberger, Anton
Schwerin, General
Scott, Walter
Scotta, Alessandro
Scultetus
Sealsfield, Charles
Sedziwój, Michael
Sefer-Alpha-Beta (Lipmann-Mülhausen)
Sefer Gezirah
Sefirot
Seibt, Ferdinand
Seibt, Karl Heinrich
Seifert, Jaroslav
Šembera, Jan
Sendivogius
Servites
Shaffer, Peter
Shakespeare, William
Shevyrov, Boris
Shevyrov, Stpan Petrovich
Sholem, Gershom
Sibylla
Sidney, Philip
Siegfried of Mehrenburg
Sigismund, Emperor
Simon of Tišnov
Sixt, Paulus
Skála, Emil
Slavataém
Slav Congress
Slavia club
Slavic tribes
Slavnfkovci clan
Slovak Populists
“Slovan a ech” (“A Slav and a Czech”) (Havlíek)
Slovanská Lípa (Slavic Linden Tree)
Smeral, Bohumil
Smetana, Bedfich
Smiický, Jan
Sobslav I, King
Sobslav II, King
Social Democrats
Socialists
Society for the Promotion of Industry in Bohemia
Society of the Wise
Soiron, Alexander von
Sokol (Falcons) organization
Solari, Pietro Antonio
Sonnenburg, Friedrich von
Sonnenfels, Joseph von
Sophia, Queen
Soukup, František
Spanish Civil War
Spartacists
Spazio, Giovanni
Spigri, Federigo
Spina, Franz
Spindler, Ervín
Spinelli, Filippo
Spinelli, Giovanni
Spinoza, Benedict
Spohr, Louis
Spolek eských Akademik-Žid (Club of Czech-Jewish Professionals)
Sporck, Franz Anton Count
Spranger, Bartholomäus
Šrobár, Vávro
Stadion, Count Rudolf
Stadler, Anton
Stadtwappen, Das (The City Escutcheon) (Kafka)
Stalinism
Statuta judaeorum
Štefánik, Milan Rastislav
Stein, Baron Heinrich von
Steiner, Franz Baerman
Štkna, Jan
Stella, Paolo della
Stelzer, Hannes
Štpán Fedynger aneb sedlská vojna (Stephan Fadinger and the Peasant War) (play)
Štpán of Kolín
Stemberg, Caspar Count
Stemberk brothers
Stevens, Pieter
Stifter, Adalbert
Stedy, Jan ze
Stežka of Cejkovice
Stojadinovi, Constantine
Stölzl, Christoph
Story of Passover (ha-Kohen)
Strada, Anna Maria
Strada, Catharina
Strada, Jacopo
Strada, Ottavio
Strada, Zanobi da
Straka, Adolf Vilém
Strassburg, Gottfried von
Strauss, Richard
Strobach, Johann Josef
Štúr, L’udovít
Sturm, Der
Stusche, Colonel Viktor
Štýrský, Jindich
Sudeten Party
Supreme Court, U.S.
surrealism
Süssmayr, Franz Xaver
Susta, Josef
Svatopluk, Prince
Švehla, Antonín
Svejk, Hašek
Sυt pati nám (The World Is Ours) (film)
Svomost corps
Syrový, General
Táborites
Talich, Václav
Talmud
Tannhäuser
Tauler, Johannes
Tausendmark, Nikolaus
Teige, Karel
Teutonic Knights
Thám, Václav
Theodorik, Master
Theresa of Avila, St.
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Thirty Years’ War
Thomas, Edward
Thomas Aquinas
Three Marys, The (Easter play)
Threepenny Opera, The (Brecht)
Thun, Count
Thuringians
Thum, Matthias Count
Tieck, Ludwig
Tiefenbach, Colonel
Tiem, Wenzel
Tiferet Yisrael (Loew)
Tirol, Hans
Titian
Tkadleek (The Weaver)
“To Czech Women!” (Nmcová)
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomáš of Štítný
Tomek, V. V.
Torah
Tosafists
Totting, Heinrich
Toyen
Tramazolli, Caterina
Trial, The (Kafka)
Trinitarians
Trismegistos, Hermes
Trithemius
Troilo, Federico
Trojan, Alois Pravoslav
Trost, Pavel
Trotsky, Leon
Tschemembl, Georg Erasmus
Tübingen, University of
Turenne, Madame de
Türlin, Ulrich von dem
Tumow, Peter
Tusar, Vlastimil
Tycho Brahes Weg zu Gott (Tycho Brahe’s Path to God) (Brod)
Tyl, Josef, Kajetán
Typotius, Jakob
Uhlfedl, Wilhelmine von
Ulenhart, Nikolaus
Ulrich, Josef
Ultraquists
Union of Czech Jews
Uraniborg Astronomical Institute
Urban V, Pope
Urban VI, Pope
Ur-father Czech
Ursulines
Urzidil, Johannes
Václav, Duke (later St.)
Václav I, King
Václav II, King
Václav III, King
Václav IV, King; and Hussites; and Jews
Vank, Karel
Velika, Géza
Velká Obec
Velvet Revolution
Vermeyen, Jan
Vemeuerte Landesordnung
Vianen, Paulus van
Vienna, University of
Vienna Reichsrat
Vilém of Rožmberk
Virgil
Vischer, Melchior
Viscontis
Viviers, Huetus de
Viviers, Jean de
Vladislav II, King
Vlašský, Jindich
Vlek, Václav
“Vltava” (Smetana)
Vocel, Jan Erazim
Vogelweide, Walther von der
Voice of America
Voigt, Mikuláš Adaugt
Vojtch, St.
Vojtch of Bluda
Vok, Petr
Voskovec, Jií
Vratislav II, King
Vratislav of Pernštejn
Vrchlický, Jaroslav
Vesovec family
Wagner, Richard
Wahr, Carl
Waldensian
Waldhauser, Konrad
Waldstein, Count
Wallenstein, Duke of
Wallenstein, General
War Economy Grain Institute
Weber, Karl Maria von
Wegener, Paul
Wehle family
Wehrmacht
Weiner, Richard
Weinert, Louis
Weiss, Emst
Wellek, René
Welser, Philippine
Weltfreund, Der (The World’s Friend) (Werfel)
Wenceslas, St.
Wenzig, Josef
Werfel, Franz
Werich, Jan
West, Rebecca
Weston, Jane Elizabeth
West Pocket Revue
White Mountain, Battle of the
Wieland, Christoph Martin
Wilhelm, Duke of Meissen
Wilhelm of Holland
William of Ockham
Wilson, Woodrow
Winder, Ludwig
Windischgrätz, Alfred Prince
Windischgrätz, Eleonore
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare)
Wirpirk
Wir sind (We Are) (Werfel)
Witch of Prague, The (Crawford)
Witold, Grand Duke of Lithuania
Wlasta (Ebert)
Wohlmut, Bonifaz
Wolff, Kurt
Wölfflin
Wölflin, Franz
Wölflin, Jakob
Wolker, Jií
Woltmann, Caroline von
Woltmann, Karl Ludwig von
Wondrous Tale of Isaac Winckelfelder and Jobst von der Schneid, The (Ulenhart)
World War I
World War II
Wotton, Henry
Wundt, Wilhelm
Wurm, Franz
Wyclif, John
Wyclifites
Ya’qûb, Ibrahim ibn
Young Czech Party
Zahradník, Isidor
Zajíek, Erwin
Zanantoni, General Eduard
Zanotti, Camillo
Zápotocký, Antonin
Záviš of Falkenštejn
Zbynêk of Hasenburk, Archbishop
Zdenk of Laboun
Zdenk of Lobkovic
Zeiselmeister, Nicholas
Zelenka, František
Železný Jan
Želinský. Kryštof
Zemah David (A Branch of David) (Gans)
Zevi, Shabbetai
Žídek, Jan
Zionists
Zittau, Peter von
Zižka, Jan
Zohar
Zone (Apollinaire)
Zweter, Reinmar von
Copyright © 1997 by Peter Demetz
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Published in 1997 by Hill and Wang
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eISBN 9781429930642
First eBook Edition : April 2011
First paperback edition, 1998
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Demetz, Peter, 1922–
Prague in black and gold : scenes from the life of a European
city / Peter Demetz.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-7843-1
ISBN-10: 0-8090-7843-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Prague (Czech Republic)—History. I. Title.
DB2626 .D46 1997
943.71’2—dc21
96-52216
Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-1609-9
Paperback ISBN-10: 0-8090-1609-5