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Historical Atlases 1848-1989 and Central European Area.
Močičková, Jitka ; Semotanová, Eva (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee) ; Cajthaml, Jiří (referee)
Historical Atlases 1848-1989 and Central European Area Mgr. Jitka Močičková Abstract Historical atlases are a specific type of document whose character gradually formed on the background of several traditional genres (geographical atlases, historical manuals and compendia, etc.). From their beginnings, dating back to the early modern period, they were thus on the borderline between the humanities and the natural sciences. Their significant modernisation and increase in production took place during the 19th century. Their form and content were influenced not only by the contemporary state of historical knowledge, the level of cartographic skills and technologies (printing techniques, development of colour print) but also by the education policies of individual states, as a significant part of the production of historical atlases were from the second half of the 19th century intended for the needs of school teaching (but there were also popular-educational and scientific works). The seemingly unbiased genre, which maps the past, was equally significantly imprinted with the present, especially the current political and social situation (e.g. the rise of modern nationalism or the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes of the 20th century) and therefore had undeniable persuasive potential. The primary role of...
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Estate maps and their importance for the study of historical landscapes and serfdom towns
Tůmová, Martina ; Semotanová, Eva (advisor) ; Frajer, Jindřich (referee) ; Šantrůčková, Markéta (referee)
The dissertation deals with the knowledge and reconstruction of the historical landscape of the early to the upper modern period using cartographic sources, maps of the estates from the 18th and the first half of the 19th century, which have not been exploited so far. It seeks answers to the questions of what changes occurred in the landscape during this period and documents them, especially on the example of the serfdom towns in Bohemia. The dissertation is interdisciplinary in nature. It tries to contribute to research in historical geography and to fit thematically into the concept of studying historical landscapes (from identification and documentation to understanding the meanings of their transformations). However, it also uses the approaches of historical cartography in the research, analysis and processing of hitherto neglected cartographic sources - sources of information about the past. Attention in the study of historical landscapes and urban history has so far been paid rather to the younger period from the mid-19th century onwards, mainly because of the availability, mostly wider possibilities of processing the necessary historical sources (topographically more accurate old maps and plans of comparative character) and the accuracy of their narrative value. The older period up to the...
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Historical development of teritorial polarization of Czech lands
Nováček, Aleš ; Semotanová, Eva (referee) ; Chromý, Pavel (referee)
Hlavním cílem práce byla analýza, interpretace a pokus o rekonstrukci historického vývoje teritoriální polarizace českých zemí jako výsledku komplexních socioekonomických proměn. V rámci této problematiky pak konkrétněji a podrobněji přistupuje k příkladu kraje Vysočina, dějinným aspektům jeho perifernosti a vnitřní diferenciace. Bylo úkolem pomocí analýzy dlouhodobého populačního vývoje nalézt a objasnit kořeny dnešní polarity jádra a periferie. Na obou zkoumaných úrovních, jak vnější (mezi kraji), tak vnitřní (uvnitř sledovaného kraje), bylo záměrem hledat a následně identifikoval základní vývojové determinanty stavu i populačně-prostorové dynamiky s důrazem na jejich časovou proměnlivost a variabilitu. V tomto se výzkum opíral o reprezentativní historické prúl·ezy stavu populace. Na základě jejich rozboru a vzájemné komparace jednotlivých územních jednotek došlo za pomoci statistických metod k pokusu konstruovat dobovou teritoriální hierarchii sídelního, potažmo i hospodářského systému včetně stanovení jednotlivých kategorií polarizace: jádro - periferie. Obdobným zpi'1sobem bylo postupováno i v otázce historického vývoje a v jeho rámci užití pojmú: jadernizaee periferizace. Největší prostor byl přirozeně vymezen industriální de, jež mčla hlavní podíl na formování současné reality. Tento dúraz se ukázal...
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Between King and Estates. Lower Lusatian Land Administration on the Threshold of the Modern Age (1490 - 1620)
Březina, Luděk ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor) ; Semotanová, Eva (referee) ; Čapský, Martin (referee)
Between King and Estates. Lower Lusatian Land Administration on the Threshold of the Modern Age (1490-1620) Abstract The PhD thesis tries to describe the main changes in Lower Lusatia and the operation of the land administrators between 1490 and 1620. It is based on comparison of the situation in all Lands of the Czech Crown, namely in Bohemia, whereas special attention is paid to the description of the family background, family relationships, the career life and agenda of individual administrators. The thesis also researches the reasons which led Czech Kings to the appointment of land administrators and tries to answer the question how much land administrators influenced events in Lower Lusatia. The Lower Lusatian estates played an important role as well and both, land administrators and Czech Kings, could repeatedly experience their increasing power during the monitored period. For this reason the PhD thesis is focused on land administrators as mediators of power between kings and estates. Key words Early Modern Age, Czech Crown, Lower Lusatia, land administration
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Inner Peripheries of contemporary Prague in the archives documents - trends and sonds
Nedbalová, Zuzana ; Semotanová, Eva (advisor) ; Novotný, Michal (referee)
This diploma thesis, entitled Inner Peripheries of contemporary Prague in the archives documents - trends and sonds, deals with changes originally separated urban areas located outside Prague, which went through significant transformations during last 150 years. For this thesis three studies were selected: city districts Karlín, Libeň and Vysočany. All three peripheries were originally separated areas of rural type which were located near centre of Prague. With the arrival of industry in the middle of 19th Century they turned into heavily industrial areas, in the beginning of 20th Century merged with the capital city, thus creating Great Prague. Many changes took place also with river Vltava regulations. During last 25 years the capital city is being modernized. This modernization is connected with additional changes in peripheries: old and unused factories are demolished and new buildings are built on their places or they are converted for other purposes. Because of this there are another impacts on the surrounding landscape. This issue also concerns industrial herritage: its main purpose is preservation and protection of former industrial buildings. The main goal of this thesis is description of these changes and their impact on the landscape with using maps, pictorial and written sources.
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Memoirs, historical-geographic source and the image of region (for example, the memoirs of FJ Vavák turn of the 18th and 19th centuries)
Svobodová, Zuzana ; Semotanová, Eva (advisor) ; Hojda, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis is a contribution to the still not fully explored historical-geographical aspect of regional chronicles - Memories of F. J. Vavák, neighbour and mayor of Milčice. The main goal of the thesis was analysis of the image of the region which Vavák presented in his memoirs. As a reference source was used First Military Mapping - mapping and text supplement - as a historically appropriate source. The content of the first two chapters is Vavák's bibliography and introduction of the most important domestic and international contemporary events and affairs for easier understanding of the conditions and circumstances of the genesis of both main sources. Main chapter then presents the image of the region pictured both in Vavák's Memoirs and the First Military Mapping. As the memoirs is the very extensive source, it was necessary to choose "the overarching aspects," whereby is observed the image of the region. Based on the significant features of the memoirs was chosen following terms historical-geographical, social-topographical, economic, cultural, climatological and historical. Individual aspects were sequentially analyzed and documented by examples from Memories or the text part of the First Military Mapping. Comparing the mentioned sources was found, that those at first sight very different...
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Historical geography of monastic orders in the Czech lands in the 17th and 18th centuries
Jarůšek, Karel ; Hojda, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Semotanová, Eva (referee)
A pa per is comprised of four parts. The first part "Map supplements in old prints" gives a brief analysis of the role of map supplements (and cartographic documentation in general) in the ancient cosmo- and topographic literature and informs about the essential ti tl es of this kind. The second part "Maps with religious themes in the context of the evolution of cartography in the czech territory. Present knowledge of their existence." Follows the evolution of cartographic representation in the czech territories and informs about its contents in respect of the church subject. Is also considers the development and purpose of ancient maps. The focus of the paper is represented by a catalogue of maps of religious orders. Each entry comprises of description of map's content and of a short analysis or annotation to it (e.g. data on the used graphic tools for representation of the terrain, borders, data on used symbols, on verba I contents of a map, data on annotations and appendices on a map). The last part brings a general cartographic and pictorial evaluation of the collection of rnaps. Th~ collection is not complete - it is a drawback and the autho:o :s. fully aware of it. Stili the paper is a first step in a field, which hasn't yet been followed systematica"y in specialized literature.
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Perception of space and orientation in the countryside in the Czech middle ages (12.-14. century)
Klimek, Tomáš ; Žemlička, Josef (advisor) ; Semotanová, Eva (referee) ; Bolina, Pavel (referee)
The work deals with perception of space and orientation in the countryside in the Czech Lands from the beginning of the 12th century till the end of the 14th century. In the first part the author describes concrete aspects of perception of space in contemporary cosmological concepts. He defines the distinction between medieval view on space as a set of concrete places and the modern concept of absolute and unmarked space and analyzes reflection of concrete features of the medieval model in the texts from the Czech environment. As a part of analyzes of the space heterogeneity the author further deals with reconstruction of perception of woods as one of the types of medieval countryside. Historiography often attributes special position to woods in imagination of contemporary people. The author analyses existence of literal cliché presenting woods like hostile environment in narrative texts from the Czech cultural environment and the result is confronted with conclusions from interdisciplinary studies dealing both with the task of proportional representation of woods in medieval countryside and with it's development and with ways of economic use of woods. On this bases along with the interpretation of results from a specific analyzes of books of interrogation statements the author comes to the...
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