„Je to bezesporu trápení cestovat touto zemí v takové zimě.“ Andaluský rytíř Pero Tafur v Čechách, ve Slezsku a na Moravě (1438–1439)
“It is indisputably suffering to travel in this country in such cold.” Andalusian knight Pero Tafur in Bohemia, Silesia and Moravia (1438–1439)

Summary/Abstract: This article charts the path and the activity of the Andalusian nobleman Pero Tafur in theCzech lands at the end of 1438 and beginning of 1439. The visit formed part of his extensivefour-year journey across European countries, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean.The main motive was to meet with King of the Romans and of Bohemia Albert II. The meetingoccurred in February 1439 in Wroclaw, where Tafur arrived via Prague and Saxony in theentourage of the royal chancellor Kaspar Schlick, and from there he continued through Moraviato the south to Austria. The rather obscure testimony of the well-travelled knight is not onlya remarkable document of this monarch as a person and the contemporary historical contextof Albert’s brief reign, but also provides an interesting image of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesiain the atmosphere of the slowly extinguishing Hussite wars.

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