K postavení Vratislavi v českých korunních zemích v pozdním středověku

The presented study follows reflections of Prague as “Head of the Kingdom” in the late medieval Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the question whether the Silesian city of Wrocław (Vratislav, Breslau) aspired to take over this role in connection with the anti-Hussite policy of King Sigismund of Luxembourg. Attention is paid to the conditions establishing the leading position of Prague within Bohemia and that of Wrocław within the framework of the Duchies of Silesia; to the role of political communication when forming concepts on the “first” or “second head of the Kingdom” and the importance of this construct in struggles to participate in political decision-making in the respective Lands of the Bohemian Crown. The author reaches the conclusion that the Wrocław municipal representatives utilised references to the leading position of Prague in order to legitimize their own aspirations in the transforming power bloc of the late medieval Duchies of Silesia.