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Ways of Identifying Elites in the Area of the Central European Barbaricum of the Late Roman Period
Payne, David ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Košnar, Lubomír (referee)
The thesis pursues those aspects of the material culture found in settlements and burial sites that are connected to the manifestation of social elites in the Central European Barbaricum of the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The author will compile relevant sources and critically evaluate various approaches regarding the options for recognising the self-presentation of elites by means of material culture identificators as well as in terms of cultural anthropology. The results will then be compared to the ways elites manifest themselves in the preceding time period. The author will also submit a proposal of possible methodical procedures that would lead to a synthetic understanding of the self-presentation and prestige goods phenomena.
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Czech artist in the years 1968 - 1989: Servant or a hero? Stanislav Kolibal and Josef Malejovsky
Manová, Markéta ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Pech, Milan (referee)
Czech artist in the years 1968-1989: Servant or a hero? Stanislav Kolibal and Josef Malejovsky Introduction of the bachelor thesis outlines the political developments in Czechoslovakia in 1948-1989. The main theme will capture the difference between official and unofficial scene Czech artistic life in the years 1968-1989, represented artists Stanislav Kolibal and Joseph Malejovsky. The content will compare the conditions in which they formed during the normalization throughout their lives, before the normalization period, compare the quality of their work, and compare the regime/anti-regime attitude to art and not least their political position not only in artistic expression. Text in addition to life artists will also focus on the development of groups in which worked, exhibitions and other artistic expressions factors.
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Jan Pelár, a musician who should not be forgotten
Janušová, Martina ; Doležalová, Eva (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
Jan Pelar is an integral part of the cultural heritage of Wallachia. He personally represented Wallachian culture at Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague in 1895. On this occasion he obtained his first musician concession. Reportedly, he composed the Wallachian anthem, "My sme Valaši" on his way to Prague. This work will focus on his musical career and his personal life which was extraordinary. This work will focus on his musical career, his extraordinary personal life and his legacy to younger musicians.
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Image of Luxembourg in Czech history textbooks in the 19th and 20th century
Šťastný, Antonín ; Doležalová, Eva (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
The objective of this diploma thesis is to characterize the image of Luxembourgs in the Czech history textbooks in the 19th and 20th century. The work is based on the assumption that the history education takes a significant part in making a young person's identity. The thesis describes the development of this image and the way in which the educational literature reflected the atmosphere of the day and its transformation in the context of historical development. The dynamic development of the image of the Czech history of 14th and 15th centuries is the central theme of the work. It will be mainly focused on the historical figures of Bohemian Luxembourg kings: John of Luxembourg, Charles IV, Wenceslaus IV and Sigismund of Luxembourg.
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Municipality of Hradčany in Podještědí in the story of contemporary history
Havelka, Jan ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Doležalová, Eva (referee)
This master's thesis follows the author's previous bachelor thesis Village Hradčany in Podještědí at Contemporary History 1914 -1948. Using terminology and methods of regional history and microhistory it accents exploring contemporary history of whole commune and municipality Hradčany with all of its historical villages. It will deal comprehensively with cultural-historical and political-historical problems and phenomena of the of the second half of the 20th century, beginning with the communist rise of power in 1948 , continuing by demise of traditional rural economy in the fifties. But it will also mention the extinction of commune Hradčany itself and its connecting to the bigger commune of socialist type in seventies and developement of socialist rural society. Due to comparing the local archive sources with sources from other surrounding settlements the work should produce a synthetical historical source, which could be taken as a general picture of history of settlements in the region. The whole work is based primarily on archive and oral-history research, interviews with the oldest settlers, collection of photographic sources and written documents as memories.
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Jaroslav Werstadt and its place in the Czech historiography
Baran, Marek ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Činátl, Kamil (referee)
7 Abstract Jaroslav Werstadt was born March 21, 1888 in Pilsen and died on January 8, 1970 in Prague. He was an important Czech historian and publicist. Since his student years, he attended a political struggle against Austria-Hungary. He was a prisoner of the concetraition camp Buchenwald. Many of his works are devoted to the resistence isme. He has a great interest in Czech history and philosophy of history. This thesis discusses the work of Jaroslav Werstadt in the field of Czech history and its development in philosophy of history. Subsequently it compares his work, views and opinions with other philosophers and historians. Namely Franišek Palacký, Bohuslav Balbín, Tomáš G. Masaryk and others. It shows with whom he disagreed and opposed them, and with whom he shares some opinions. Keywords: Jaroslav Werstadt, Czech history, history of philosophy
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Vision of Czech crown in piece of Ernest Denis and Victor-Lucien Tapié
Štverka, Adam ; Nejedlý, Martin (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
(in English): Ernest Denis (1849-1921) and V.-L. Tapié (1900-1974) count among the prominent french historians of Czech lands. Although their work mostly describes the same historical period, the one's characteristics often differ to facts described in the work of the second. This work is going to map the motivations, which led them to write about Bohemian Crown, and capture the role they attach to it due to the organization of Central Europe's powers. The historians are then approached not only threw their masterpiece, but also threw their sojourns in Czech lands. The same emphasis is put on their impact in czech territory, reading manners of their works, rate and a role of the translations. Afterwards, the life stories are connected with their historiograpgical production in an effort to capture the depiction of Bohemian Crown and demonstrate its differences.
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Remembering the Czechoslovak Normalization in the Popular Culture and the Ways of Its Use in Didactics
Pinkas, Jaroslav ; Činátl, Kamil (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
This work focuses on the social practice of recollection, the so-called standardization in public sphere and possibilities to grasp this subject in history teaching. The aim is to describe this practice and at the same time, to define effective methods of its thematization in school environment. In the first part, I am concerned with the concepts of memory from Maurice Halbwachs to Alison Landsberg and I emphasize my preference for the concept of media memory as the basis for my further researches. Furthermore, I analyse models of historical education in Anglo-American environment on the one hand and German environment on the other hand. I analyse the strong and weak points of these models based on the concept of "historical thinking" and "historical consciousness". In the second part, I analyse the resemblance of memoir characters to the so-called standardization in movie presentations and their perception by users of the movie site www.csfd.cz. The objective of this analysis was to point out to the fact how we communicate about movies and which values are associated with watching movies. I linked the analysis of movie images and their perception to the idea of dominant cultural formations of the Czech society in Michael Kennedy's mind. I have analysed four movies, which, in my opinion, represent...
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Forms of representations of czechoslovakian historians in first half of twentieth century. Václav Chaloupecký (1882 - 1951), Fridolín Macháček (1884 - 1954), Josef Pešek (1878 - 1958)
Sixta, Václav ; Štaif, Jiří (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
The thesis is dealing with the term "representation of historian" on the example of czechoslovakian historiography of the first half of twentieth century. For understanding of this work is important the context of my bachelor thesis, which dealed with the same problem using quantitative approaches on Kulturní adresář (Culture adressary) written by Antonín Dolenský. This thesis is an antropologization of the same issue in the meaning og underscoring the multiplicity of representations and its independence on the macroperspective of usual interpretations of czechoslovakian historiography. This perspective is enabled by choosen sources, which are texts of three historians - schoolmates, who studied together field of study history - geography on the Faculty of arts of Charles university. But their careers had differnt ways. Fridolín Macháček was during his whole professional life connected with Plzeň and its archive, Josef Pešek was teacher on high school in Prague (Akademické gymnázium) and historian of east bohemia and last but not least Václav Chaloupecký archivist in Roudnice nad Labem, professor of czekoslovakian history at university in Bratislava and than in Prague. The advantage of these sources is possibility to focus on the term "representation of historian" like a result of process of...
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History of Pecka townlet 1848 - 1990
Coganová, Daniela ; Ebelová, Ivana (referee) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
(in English) This work depicts history of Pecka from the earliest time of municipality government in the half of the 19th century throughout the following 20th century, until 1990. To get better oriented, the book has been divided into three parts (according to historical periods). Each of them describes life in the town from administrative, economic, investment, educational, cultural, club, social, health care and religious points of view. The first part focuses on a period between 1848 and 1918; most of its attention is paid to local trades and clubs. The second chapter specialises in the times after the First World War (1918-1945) and comprises three sub-chapters: the first one shows the earliest years of independent Czechoslovak Republic, the second sub-chapter concentrates on the time of economic growth and successive financial crisis. The third sub-chapter writes about "the second republic" and the Protectorate. The final part of the book is aimed at after-war situation, municipality changes (into national municipality) and forty years of communistic era. As usual, division of this part follows important events (1948 - start of communistic regime, 1968 - Soviet occupation, 1989 - Velvet Revolution). The text itself is accompanied by numerous photographs as well as footnotes that complement...
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