Středověk (jinak) trvá #50 Jak se staví ego: věže ve středověku i dnes
| Title in English | The Middle Ages (differently) last #50 How Ego is Built: Towers in the Middle Ages and Today |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Popularization text |
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| Description | How to Demonstrate Power, Ambition, and Might? Build a Tower! Whether it's Trump Tower in New York, the towers of family clans in the Georgian Svaneti, or in the Italian town of San Gimignano, this proven practice has spread across continents and cultures for over a thousand years, likely without mutual causality. Episode 50 of the Středověk (jinak) trvá podcast will once again take us to the Italian town of Lucca, where a 45-meter-high tower with a garden at its peak still stands in the center. Art historian Ivan Foletti and archaeologist Jiří Macháček will discuss not only the phenomenon of erecting towers but also the connection between nature and architecture, which continues to fascinate us today, as evidenced by the tree-covered tower in Lucca and its tourist popularity. |