ABSTRACT
This chapter argues two significant transformations in the frameworks defining the representations of Ladislaus and Louis occurred, during the period from 1526 to the early seventeenth century. First, it introduces the notion of 'the Jagiellonians' to the Bohemian political and cultural space for the first time. Second, an observable transition occurred in historical writing, which moved from continuous regnal/national narratives split into the reigns of individual monarchs, to national narratives split into periods of ruler ship by discrete named lineages. The impressive proliferation of historical writing in the Czech lands over the course of the middle of the sixteenth century provides us with rich material to discuss the development of the memory of Ladislaus and Louis in the decades following 1526. Two significant and influential, chronicles composed by Vaclav Hajek z Libocan in Czech and Jan Dubravius in Latin structure their representation of Ladislaus and Louis in very similar ways, predicated on the shared model of a national master narrative.
