Publication details
Lovečtí psi, mor a další nemoci : smrt královny Johany Bavorské ve světle nově objeveného italského pramene
| Title in English | Hounds, Plague, and Other Diseases : The Death of Queen Joanna of Bavaria in the Light of a Newly Discovered Italian Source |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Husitský Tábor |
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| Keywords | Joanna of Bavaria; Wenceslas IV; the Visconti; Diplomacy; History of Medicine |
| Description | In 1386, Joanna of Bavaria, queen of the Romans and of Bohemia and the first wife of Wenceslas IV, died under mysterious circumstances. In the historiography, there have been several hypotheses on Joanna’s death: some scholars have considered the possibility of Wenceslas’s dogs being responsible, while others have accepted plague as a causa mortis. However, a newly discovered Italian evidence, correspondence of the Visconti ambassadors staying in Prague, shows that the queen died of a chronic febrile disease, probably tuberculosis. |