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Žatec and north-western Bohemia in the 2nd Half of the 10 Century
Čech, Petr ; Sláma, Jiří (advisor) ; Macháček, Jiří (referee) ; Moždzioch, Slawomir (referee)
The present work was written following a master thesis on the settlement and the shape of the early mediaeval agglomeration of Žatec in the 9th century. Subject of this dissertation is the processing of pottery from settlement features and from the 10th -century fortification. This enabled to study the development of the fortification system and changes of the settlement structure within individual settlement components. On the basis of excavations a relative chronology of the pottery and in accordance with the dendrochronological data a hypothesis on absolute dating has been presented. In view of this new chronology a new quantitative and qualitative analysis of information on the early mediaeval strongholds and hill-top settlements of the 9th and 10th century in the central and lower Ohře Region and in the Ore Mountain foothills was undertaken. A processing of the research on Drahúš stronghold has contributed substantially to this new perspective. The 1960s opinion on the affiliation of early mediaeval strongholds on the territory in question to the tribal territory of the Lučans, which should have been opposed to the Central Bohemian Přemyslid patrimony, based on the gathered information and its analysis could have been rejected. It was possible to comprise the evaluation of the excavation at...
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Early mediaeval stronghold of Libice nad Cidlinou and its hinterland
Mařík, Jan ; Sláma, Jiří (advisor) ; Macháček, Jiří (referee) ; Moždzioch, Slawomir (referee)
Early medieval strongholds (fortified centres) were dominating elements in early medieval society. They usually served as multi-functional centres of political power, administration, trade, cult, military organization, etc. There were many people residing in such strongholds who did not take part on agricultural production, for example the ducal family, soldiers, and craftsmen. Strongholds played an important role in the process of the formation of early medieval Czech state in the 9th and the 10th century. The early medieval centre is assumed to have been a great consumer of food (non-productive elites), human labour (construction of fortification), raw materials (wood, iron ore), etc. The needs of early medieval strongholds are usually characterised as "very large", but always without any proper context of comparison. It is impossible to understand the economy of a centre without a knowledge of its needs and capacity of its hinterland. The centre and its hinterland is one indivisible system, which has to be balanced.
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Stará Boleslav (Central Bohemia) - Přemyslid stronghold in the early middle ages
Boháčová, Ivana ; Klápště, Jan (advisor) ; Sláma, Jiří (referee) ; Moždzioch, Slawomir (referee)
Boleslav is one of the most frequently mentioned Czech Early Medieval sites in the written records of the Middle Ages. The reason for this is an event that took place here, at the seat of a member of the ruling Přemyslid family, and which was a key moment in the formative period of the early Czech state - the murder of Prince Wenceslas by his brother Boleslav. Until the end od the 1980's the reports of such written sources, which were concerned mainly with the person of Prince Wenceslas, were essentially the only source of information about the site, which - as a place belonging to the Přemyslids and later a capitular seat played an importatn role in the early period of the development of the Přemyslid state in particular, although in the late Middle Ages its importance declined. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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