24 mars 2021
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Maciej Talaga, « "As turf is thrown, a remarkable battle begins": A martial game in the late-medieval town of Hirschberg, Silesia », Martial Culture in Medieval Town, ID : 10.58079/r90o
“Oh, milk-giving walls!”: The fortified town of Hirschberg in the late fifteenth century Silesia is a region in today’s southern Poland which throughout the whole Middle Ages maintained close relations with the German and Czech cultural circles (Fig. 1). In effect, the process of urbanisation started relatively early there in comparison to other lands claimed by dukes or kings of Poland. Hence, when medieval Silesian towns become traceable in the historical record they are often already ch...