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PREFACE 7

INTRODUCES PRAGUE 14

ABOUT GUIDES AND GUIDE BOOKS AND THE WEATHER OF PRAGUE 32

VY?EHRAD, LIBU?A AND P?EMYSL, AND OTHER EARLY NOTABLES OF PRAGUE, AMONG THEM ST. WENCESLAUS 50

MORE ABOUT ST. WENCESLAUS AND HIS IMMEDIATE SUCCESSORS 70

GOOD AND BAD RULERS OF BOHEMIA UP TO A CONTEMPORARY OF FREDERICK BARBAROSSA. STRAHOV MONASTERY 88

FIVE KINGS OF THE HOUSE OF P?EMYSL, INTRODUCES THE FIRST HABSBURG TO VISIT BOHEMIA 106

BLIND KING JOHN OF BOHEMIA 130

CHARLES AND HIS BRIDGE. HIS SON WENCESLAUS. JOHN NEPOMUK AND JOHN HUS 166

A HOUSING PROBLEM. ANCIENT AND MODERN PRAGUE 192

SIGISMUND AND OTHER HABSBURGS. GEORGE PODIEBRAD, ALSO THE "WINTER KING" 216