|
Goldsmithing in Bohemia during the Luxembourgh Era from the Viennese Royal Court Collections
Kodišová, Lucie ; Otavský, Karel (advisor) ; Mudra, Aleš (referee)
Key words: Charles IV, Luxembourgs, medieval Bohemia, goldsmith, Secular and Ecclesiastical Treasury in Wienna. This bachelor thesis is about significant Czech goldsmith works produced in the 14th century Bohemia which are nowadays located in Secular and Ecclesiastical Treasury (Weltliche und Geistliche Schatzkammer) in Vienna. After depicting of a concise development Viennese court collections the text concentrates on the seventeen works of art, specifically on their history, technical qualities, artistic or art historical charakteristics. The thesis includes several items of the Holy Roman Empire treasury which were modified or supplemented between 1350 and 1378, when Charles IV managed them. Afterwards it discusses tree reliquaries, which became a part of the Holy Roman Empire treasury during the Sigismund of Luxembourg era. The treatise also deals with a Czech royal spehere and scepter, which were used until 1627. In conclusion there are described another three reliquaries deposited in the Ecclesiastical Treasury in Vienna. The possibility of their Czech origin is a matter of great concern for some authors.
|
|
Formation of the Unites States foreign policy towards Latin America 1848-1898: before the eagle flew out of the nes
Vytečka, Aleš ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Baďura, Bohumil (referee) ; Křížová, Markéta (referee)
Foreign policy is an outer side of the nation's life, and this applies even more to the foreign policy of the United States. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. sums up this statement in his excellent book The Cycles of American History writing: "The foreign policy is the face a nation wears to the world."1 Tremendous growth of the United States during the 19th century set up conditions, which helped to the 'Colossus of the North' to assume during the 20th century a role of the most important world power. Especially because of the result of the Cold War and the recent course of international events, political scientists are comparing present position of the United States with the Roman or British Empire in a peak of their power.2 One of the most interesting aspects of a study of American history is its uninterrupted continuity and 'logic,' which consequently brings forward strong appeal to our presence. By continuity I mean creation of a national identity or a 'common identity' of the American nation. A line between the past and the present in case of the United States is very strong.3 If we accept the statement of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., then the face of the American nation obtained mature features during the second half of the 19th century. The process of framing of principal characteristics and...
|
|
Political and economic relations between Great Britain and its colonies in north America in the Seven years' war
Nevrkla, Lukáš ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
Great Britain and thirteen British American mainland colonies in the age of the Seven Year's War. My principal objection was to analyse the impact of the war on the development of these relations during the war in connection with the preceding historical development and with respect to the moovement of the events in the 1760s and 1770s of the 18th century. The chapter one gives a short survey of the structure of colonial economic and colonial commerce of Great Britain and "thirteen colonies" in Norht America. Futhermore it presents a concise cultural and social portrait of British colonial merchants and their counterparts in American colonies. The chapter two consists of an analysis of the effect of the political and economical connections of the Seven Years' War on the political structure of the colonies. This process is ilustrated by an example of the emacipation of colonial assemblies as in relation to Great Britain as well as in local politics. The Chapter three deals with the changed post-war conditions in North America and provides a short account of her old animosities and new problems. Moreover it analyses the first steps of British policy in years after the signature of the peace of Paris. The Seven Year's War had shaped the state of affairs in 60's and 70's of the 18th century. However amazing the...
|
|
Beginning of education in Luxembourg
SVOBODA, Vlastimil
The thesis deals with the beginning of the first schools on the territory of Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany and France after the desintegration of the Roman Empire. It describes different types of schools and the education that they were bringing. It focuses also on the historical conditions and describes the main personalities of the period and their influence on the education. It pays a special attention to the extinction of ancient schools after the invasion of barbarian tribes and to the Carolingian Renaissance and its impact on the education. Among monastic schools it points out especially the school in the Echternach abbey, whose high level makes it one of the most important schools of that period in Europe. The thesis describes in detail the content of the education, teaching aids and methods used in this school. Finally the thesis mentions the Ottonian Renaissance and the establishment of medieval universities.
|
|
Choricius of Gaza's "Defense of Mimes" and the question of the continuity of Greek theatre
Šípová, Pavlína ; Stehlíková, Eva (advisor) ; Bažant, Jan (referee) ; Just, Vladimír (referee)
to an extent uncharted territory in the field oftheatrical history. It is only in the past few decades that works attempting (albeit partially) to map the situation in the Greek environment have started to appear. Though yet more new dramatic texts are being discovered, the processing of these texts is complicated due to the specific and demanding requirements the researcher has to meet when presented with them. The essential requirement for analysing these materials is philological competence and knowledge oftheatrical history. It has traditionally been the case that philologists in the main have approached the texts from the point ofview oftheir discipline only, while theatrologists have rarely had a command of ancient Greek or Latin, or other languages of the multiethnic Byzantine Empire. An equally essential requirement is the knowledge of and respect for the different cultural and religious tradition of the East whose dissimilarity may easily distort conclusions reached by a researcher weaned on Western thought and standards. This dissertation sets out to translate and thematically sort Choricius' Apologia Mimorum, a major literary testament to the lateantique ancient mime, written in the Christian milieu ofthe Rhetorical School of Gaza in the spirit of the antique literary tradition. I attempted to...
|
|
The German gentes and ancient world
Lepeška, Jan ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee) ; Drška, Václav (advisor)
This work regards late ancient authors and their view on German ethnics. Authors focus in problems inside Rome empire and relationship to Germans, especially customs, culture, military conquests and problem of German religion. These facts try to compare with Rome civilization, also try to rehabilate Rome society. Also are looking for possible option integration Germans into Rome's world.
|
|
Art of the court of Czech and French sovereigns 1370-1420 - the social and historical background (differences and parallels)
Nussbergerová, Lucie ; Hrdina, Jan (referee) ; Nejedlý, Martin (advisor)
At the turn of 14th and 15th century, France and the Kingdom of Bohemia both faced very similar situation: progressive failure of royal authority against the background of sublimity and artistic prosperity in service of royal and aristocratic representation. Regarding Bohemia, this period is adherent to the reign of Wenceslas IV. (1378-1419), the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. His dynasty was related with French kings, during this period it was Charles VI. (1380-1422), called Charles the Mad. The end of the 14th century was a time of insecurity and fear, especially when both of the main powers, secular and spiritual, had been continually weakened. Western Christianity was divided between two, and later even among three popes, residents in Rome, A vignon and Pisa (since 1409). The main task for the kings was to end this situation and to deci de which of these popes was the only one who had been legaly elected. This question was crucial for France and the Holy Roman Empire and it was also the main difficulty in their mutual political relations. Each kingdom also had problems with their own political situation: in France the war with England and subsequent civil war among the members of the royal family. In Bohemia it was the relation with the Holy Roman Empire, because Wenceslas IV. inherited the...
|
|
Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg and the estates of Cleves-Mark in the years 1640-1654. Estates as actors of international politics and the ruler's "minimal programme"
Kozmanová, Irena ; Kovář, Martin (referee) ; Stellner, František (advisor)
The study deals with the relations between Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg, and the Estates of the western countries within his composite state, Cleves-Mark, during the 1640 and the first half of the 1650. Using the analysis of the means which they used for their mutual interaction, it tries to follow the general strategies of both parts as well as their political concepts. The attention is focused on one of the main controversial points between the ruler and the Estates - the foreign policy of the Estates, which was turned mainly towards Netherlands, towards the Estates of Jülich-Berg and towards the central institutions of the Holy Roman Empire. While the Estates considered their foreign policy activities to be completely legitimate means of protection of their own rights, the elector saw them as a threat to his sovereignty, and therefore he operated forcefully against them. Part of the so called "minimal programme" of the ruler, which was a collection of requirements he considered necessary to enforce his own sovereignty, were attempts to secure his own monopoly on the execution of foreign policy. Within the relations between the ruler and the Estates during the pursued period dominated consensual strategy, based in negotiations and agreements.
|
|
Image of Paris in the work of Émile Zola
Wenzlová, Eliška ; Ébert-Zeminová, Catherine (referee) ; Petrová, Jana (advisor)
Ce mémoire intitulé L' Image de Paris dans l'oeuvre d'Emile Zola se donne pour tâche d'analyser des romans choisis de ce célbre auteur français et de montrer comment et de quelle façon le thme de la ville de Paris y est présenté. Nous avons eu l'intention d'étudier et de démontrer l'air de la ville, les événements historiques et, grâce aux personnages principaux, imaginer les conditions de vie et l'opinion des Français qui vivaient cette époque-l. Nous nous sommes concentrés sur les quatre romans du cycle Les Rougon-Macquart - Le Ventre de Paris, L'Assommoir, Une Page d'amour et Au Bonheur des dames. Pour mieux comprendre et expliquer cette problématique, la premire partie de ce mémoire s'intéresse aux contexte historique, c'est--dire l'époque pendant laquelle les romans se déroulent. Il s'agit des années 1851-1870, donc le Second Empire, l'époque du rgne de l'empereur Napoléon III., le neveu de Napoléon Bonaparte.
|
|
Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg and the estates of Cleves-Mark in the years 1640-1654. Estates as actors of international politics and the ruler's "minimal programme"
Kozmanová, Irena ; Stellner, František (advisor) ; Kovář, Martin (referee)
The study deals with the relations between Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg, and the Estates of the western countries within his composite state, Cleves-Mark, during the 1640 and the first half of the 1650. Using the analysis of the means which they used for their mutual interaction, it tries to follow the general strategies of both parts as well as their political concepts. The attention is focused on one of the main controversial points between the ruler and the Estates - the foreign policy of the Estates, which was turned mainly towards Netherlands, towards the Estates of Jülich-Berg and towards the central institutions of the Holy Roman Empire. While the Estates considered their foreign policy activities to be completely legitimate means of protection of their own rights, the elector saw them as a threat to his sovereignty, and therefore he operated forcefully against them. Part of the so called "minimal programme" of the ruler, which was a collection of requirements he considered necessary to enforce his own sovereignty, were attempts to secure his own monopoly on the execution of foreign policy. Within the relations between the ruler and the Estates during the pursued period dominated consensual strategy, based in negotiations and agreements.
|
guest ::
