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Travelling to the Near East at the Turn of the Middle Ages and Modern Period Vedoucí
Homolka, Vojtěch ; Picková, Dana (advisor) ; Bláhová, Marie (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to analyse everyday aspects of travels to the Near East at the turn of the Middle Ages and early modern period. The emphasis of my research project is, in particular, possibilities and customs of obtaining food, hygiene, lodgings, ways of spending of a leisure time, perils and the relationship of travellers to natives. I drew information primarily from the itineraries of Czech, German and Italian Jewish pilgrims, who undertook pilgrimages to the Holy Land between 1470 and 1550. From fragmentary mentions of individual authors I try to create a comprehensive mosaic about the selected aspects of pilgrimages, which I compared then with the everyday life of noblemen and burghers around 1500. I try to catch differences in the behaviour of Christian and Jewish pilgrims and to draw attention to gradual changes in the course of the sixteenth century. Pilgrims had to face an unusual composition of their diet during travels to the Near East and often to settle for lower portions and narrower diversity of their dishes. On the other hand they kept at their disposal a better selection of salt water fish or subtropical fruits. By keeping various hygienic habits pilgrims tried to prevent illnesses, which could cause death in some cases. Sleeping on an overseas ship or in oriental...
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Travelling to the Near East at the Turn of the Middle Ages and Modern Period Vedoucí
Homolka, Vojtěch ; Picková, Dana (advisor) ; Bláhová, Marie (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to analyse everyday aspects of travels to the Near East at the turn of the Middle Ages and early modern period. The emphasis of my research project is, in particular, possibilities and customs of obtaining food, hygiene, lodgings, ways of spending of a leisure time, perils and the relationship of travellers to natives. I drew information primarily from the itineraries of Czech, German and Italian Jewish pilgrims, who undertook pilgrimages to the Holy Land between 1470 and 1550. From fragmentary mentions of individual authors I try to create a comprehensive mosaic about the selected aspects of pilgrimages, which I compared then with the everyday life of noblemen and burghers around 1500. I try to catch differences in the behaviour of Christian and Jewish pilgrims and to draw attention to gradual changes in the course of the sixteenth century. Pilgrims had to face an unusual composition of their diet during travels to the Near East and often to settle for lower portions and narrower diversity of their dishes. On the other hand they kept at their disposal a better selection of salt water fish or subtropical fruits. By keeping various hygienic habits pilgrims tried to prevent illnesses, which could cause death in some cases. Sleeping on an overseas ship or in oriental...
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The realization of daily life in the writings of the Czechs who travelled to the Near East in the late middle ages and early modern period
Homolka, Vojtěch ; Zilynská, Blanka (referee) ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor)
The remote voyages were absolutely extraordinary events in the Middle Ages and Early modern period. But even people far away from home had to eat, sleep at night and take care of their appearance. I focused on the remarks in the area of daily life in the Writings of the Czechs, who travelled to the Near East in the 15th and 16th centuries. Václav Wratislav z Mitrowicz stayed in the Constantinople, Martin Křivoústý, Martin Kabátník, Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkowicz, Oldřich Prefát z Vlkanova and Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic pilgrimized to the Holy Land. Kabátník and Harant then continued to the Egypt. An alimentation of travellers consisted particularly of bread, fruits and meat. They drank in most cases water and wine. On the one hand they could taste exotic dishes; on the other hand their fare was relatively monotonous - especially on the ship, in the prison or during crossing the desert. It was necessary to keep the basic hygienic habits in order to avoid an illness. For example red pestilence or seasickness threatened. The ill pilgrims could take shelter in a hospital. The dirty travellers could visit an oriental spa that had distinction. Sleeping in the far-away countries was not too comfortable. The people slept in the hospices, in the monasteries or in the open air. They lay on the plaited matting...
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