Bohemian Town Street and House in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to capture the development of town street and house in the late Middle Ages and early modern period based on professional and popular literary works. Although each street and house had their own unique form, the aim of this work is to draw a typical image of both and to present a complex picture of everything that could be seen by the medieval or early modern inhabitants of the city. The first part focuses on the street, especially its appearance and life in its space. It provides information of the types and names of the streets, their general appearance and their specific features, hygiene and cleaning, and last but not least, it reveals lives of the people moving in their area and their everyday and festive activities. The second part deals with the typical house of middle-class residents, its interior and exterior, with a special focus on the house signs of the Prague houses. It also approaches the often difficult life of the inhabitants in its walls. The thesis deals with the period of the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, ranging from the Luxembourg period until the year 1620 - the Battle of the White Mountain. It therefore includes the development of streets from the beginnings of towns until it began to resemble those of our age. The aim of the...