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A history of the lost art of the Bohemian Ore Mountains. The development of mining towns in the Ore Mountain region of Bohemia during the thirteenth to the sixteenth century was driven by the Saxon nobility who brought with them the culture of their homeland. The art and architecture of the Ore Mountains, financed by wealthy miners and local nobility, therefore followed a different path than Prague yet rivaled its importance and grandeur. The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains introduces the most important mining centers and historical monuments, exploring what made the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods in northwest Bohemia so distinct from the rest of the kingdom. It also examines the specific cultural space that formed, where locals viewed the Bohemian-Saxon border as an abstract political concept that had little to do with day-to-day reality. The authors trace the monuments and works of art until the second half of the twentieth century when many of them tragically vanished because of lignite mining.

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Michaela Hrubá is dean of the Faculty of Arts and professor of history at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University. Jan Royt is professor of history at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University and professor of art history at Charles University. Tána Šimková is assistant professor of architectural history at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, where she heads the Centre for the Documentation and Digitisation of Cultural Heritage. Lea Bennis translates Czech to English.

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