Acknowledgements
There are countless people who contributed to this work, and unfortunately it is impossible to name them all here. The list below is by no means exclusive. Firstly, I would like to thank my family, who supported and encouraged me from across the globe through all these years, and my great-grandmother Želmíra who inspired my historical curiosity at an early age. My eternal gratitude goes to Matthias Riedl, who saved me from academic oblivion long ago and supervised this project. Without his thoughtful and patient direction over the years, this book would simply not exist. Additional thanks must go to Pavel Soukup, Gábor Klaniczay, and Stephen E. Lahey for their close reading and feedback on the work, to the whole team at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague, and to all my teachers at Central European University for all their help, training, and guidance over the years. I also would like to thank Mária Vargha for her support, technical help, and love.
A great deal of institutional support has made this project possible. Firstly, I must thank Central European University in Budapest/Vienna for the Doctoral Fellowship and grants, and simply for providing an intellectual and social home for me through these years. Additional thanks must go to the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague for hosting me, the Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales in Prague for its PhD fellow grant, the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague for the Josef Dobrovský Fellowship for foreign researchers, and the Researcher stipend at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz. Your investment in myself and my project has made all the difference.
This study was supported by grant no. 19-28415X “From Performativity to Institutionalization: Handling Conflict in the Late Middle Ages (Strategies, Agents, Communication)” from the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR).
This study has been produced with the assistance of the database Czech Medieval Sources online, provided by the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ Research Infrastructure (https://lindat.cz), supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic (Project No. LM2018101).
Martin Pjecha | ORCID: 0000-0001-5314-6474