Luxembourg Epic IV.
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Luxembourg Epic IV.
The fourth part of the novel fresco begins with Charles returning home from Italy as the crowned Roman Emperor
Charles is lord of a substantial part of the Christian world and interferes in the affairs of the Church and other rulers. It can settle protracted disputes, but it provokes others with its policies. Of course, this means political concessions to allies and a lot of money. His vast empire has so far been able to bear these costs.
The notion of a united world spurs him on to a second Roman cavalry in an attempt to wrest the papacy from Avignon's grip. Events in the empire and marriage politics brought him further territorial gains, but Charles became more attached to his immature son Wenceslas and tried to help him win the Roman crown. But the aging and sometimes a bit nostalgic Charles no longer has the strength to keep the Christian world in the form he imagines it. The first signs of a crisis that Charles will not live to see...
Vlastimil Vondruska
He studied history and ethnography at Charles University in Prague, worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and then at the National Museum in Prague. About 50 scientific studies and the first short stories date from that time. For over thirty years he has been a mountaineer. After the revolution in 1989, he founded a glassworks where he produced copies of historical glass. At that time he returned to writing fiction and has been a freelance writer since 2007. To date, he has published some 70 historical novels and detective stories, several children's books and, together with his wife, 20 popular history books. According to statistics from the National Library, he has been the most widely read Czech author for many years, selling nearly two million printed books and over 100,000 audiobooks, and several titles have been published abroad. He is also the author of the screenplay for the film In the Name of the King, as well as a writer of radio and stage plays. He has received numerous literary awards (e.g. the IBBY Award, the Czech Learned Society Award, the Honorary Award of the Mensa, the MOBA Readers' Prize). His novel The Hussite Epic won the Bestseller of the Year title in 2015. He also writes journalism, for which he received the Kramer Prize from the Association of Independent Media. In 2017, he received a state award for literature from President Miloš Zeman.
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