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Past and Present of the Convent Library of Saints Thomas in Prague
Sladká, Veronika ; Šípek, Richard (advisor) ; Marek, Jindřich (referee)
Monastery library of Order of Hermits of Saint Augustin in Prague is an outstanding book collection of considerable scientific and historical value. Nowadays, it consists of more than 18 000 volumes. Saint Thomas monastery was founded by Wenceslaus II. in 1278 and had, from the very beginning,, a leading role among other monasteries of this order in Bohemia. From the early 14th century an Augustinian university was run there - as the only one in vast province of Bavaria, to which Bohemia belonged. In the 17th century, an independent Bohemian province was established and Saint Thomas monastery became a natural centre of it. This diploma thesis aims to provide an overview of a history of library and to introduce significant members of Augustinian order, who contributed to development (in time of prosperity) of library. Author is particularly focused on early modern period, to which scholars have not paid attention yet, and events connected to the end of the Thirty Years War, when, as it was assumed in the past, the library sustained big damage. Apart from that, everyday interest and care for books and libraries inside the order will be characterised and the cultural and historical impact of the library of Saint Thomas convent will also be emphasized. Origins and medieval period of the library is...
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Past and Present of the Convent Library of Saints Thomas in Prague. Catalogue of Incunabula.
Sladká, Veronika ; Pařez, Jan (referee) ; Mašek, Petr (referee)
Monastery library of Order of Hermits of Saint Augustin in Prague is an outstanding book collection of considerable scientific and historical value. Nowadays, it consists of more than 18 000 volumes. This thesis aims to provide an overview of a history of library and to introduce significant members of Augustinian order, who contributed to development of library. Author is particularly focused on early modern period, to which scholars have not paid attention yet, and events connected to the end of the Thirty Years War, when, as it was assumed in the past, the library sustained big damage. Apart from that, everyday interest and care for books and libraries inside the order will be characterised and the cultural and historical impact of the library of Saint Thomas convent will also be emphasized. Origins and medieval period of the library is described on indirect sources only, as nothing from the medieval collection stayed preserved. History of the library in early modern period is based on records from the monastery chronicals and other archival sources, study of secondary lierature and results of provenience research of the preserved collection. The core of the thesis consists of history of the monastery library and of information about several members of the order with special significance for development...
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Pictures of cultural and social history of Český Krumlov 1890 - 1950. subtitle: Micro-historical probe based on analysis of photos from Seidel
Borovková, Eliška ; Činátl, Kamil (advisor) ; Randák, Jan (referee)
5 Abstract: The bachelor thesis focuses on subject of photography and its relationship with society. This work attempts to the micro-historical probe to the cultural and social history of Český Krumlov in the years 1890 - 1950. As the main sources uses archive of Museum Photostudio Seidel (photographs, accountant books, customer books, diaries). In interaction with other sources (registers, statistics from the census, records of professional and business association) follows up as photograph reflects social status of customers and what it reveals about theirs relationship with this medium and to the actual act of photography. The work is based on analysis and comparison of sources based on inspiration from the professional literature on photography (Jaroslav Anděl, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes). Partially it touches problems of photo such as possible sources of historiographical knowledge. Key words Czech Krumlov, photo, Seidel, cultural history, social history, portrait, photo studio, 1890 - 1950
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The Import and Distribution of Gramophone Records under the Normalization in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Andrs, Jiří ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Michela, Miroslav (referee)
This work engages in the import and distribution of the audio storages, concretely the gramophone records to Czechoslovakia. A gramophone record - differently to other audio storages like reel-to-reel tape records or later the cassettes - was meanwhile also an artefact that personified an attractive exoticness of the western world and because of its format and graphical elaboration it represented a valuable object of popular culture. The work is based on the assumption that the development of Czechoslovak musical subcultures depended largely on the distribution of gramophone records. That is why author focuses his attention on the unofficial import of the LP records by private persons. The very limited state-controlled import of this product will be also partly taken in account. An important question within this work is the import of the west-made music from other socialist states. In many of those countries licenses of those LPs were released much more often than in CSSR. Compared to the original western LPs it was easier for Czechoslovakian citizens to reach them - because of better possibilities to travel to socialist countries and yet because of a relatively low prices of eastern presses. Student also tries to revise the common notion (typical for both academic and non-academic sphere)...
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Homosexuality in the Praxis and Discourse of Penal Law, Medicine and Civic Society from the Adoption of the 1852 Penal Code to the Adoption of the 1961 Penal Code
Seidl, Jan ; Putna, Martin (advisor) ; Sokolová, Věra (referee) ; Nečasová, Denisa (referee)
This thesis deals with changes in conceptions of homosexuality and homosexual subculture as of something basically different, as they developed from the second third of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century among Czech lawyers and physicians, as well as with changes of self-conceptualization of the Czech homosexual subculture itself, having occurred in the same time interval. It focuses mainly on attitudes and efforts of those who aimed at contributing to social emancipation of this subculture or - in times of increased persecution of homosexuality during the Nazi occupation - on the impossibility to carry on such efforts. The thesis is divided in five parts - in the first one, the legal context which provoked the emancipation efforts in times of the 1852 Penal Code being in force (i.e. until 1950) is explained; the next four parts focus on these efforts separately in four distinct periods. Thus, the second part deals with the expansion of the modern concept of homosexual identity in the Czech lands before WWI, the third part deals with sexual reform efforts by liberal lawyers and physicians as well as on emancipatory and political efforts by the homosexual community itself in the democratic First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938), aiming at decriminalization of homosexual acts,...
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The Arab Students in Prague in 1950s and 1960s
Hannová, Daniela ; Vojtěchovský, Ondřej (advisor) ; Cajthaml, Petr (referee)
The thesis focuses on the phenomenon of students from the so-called less developed countries in communist Czechoslovakia, specifically Arab students in the 50s and 60s of the twentieth century. In the first part the issue is put into a broader context of political and cultural connections. Apart from the situation inside the Arab region after the Second World War, the work offers insight into the mutual Czechoslovak-Arab contacts followed by a recap of Czechoslovak tertiary education after the year 1948. The text also presents the general situation of international students in the Czech environment in the observed era. Because it was the first wave of Arab scholarship holders supported by the Czechoslovak government to arrive at the end of the 50s, it is crucial to describe the shape of negotiation between the Czechoslovak and Arab sides. At the beginning of the second thematic part dealing with Arab students in Prague the attention is shifted towards cultural agreements and forms of studies in Czechoslovakia. The aspects of arriving abroad, preparatory language courses, accommodation in Prague, studying, everyday life of Arab students in Czechoslovakia and the conflicts they had faced are analyzed in the following subchapters. The problem of Arab student adaptation to the new environment and...
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The History of the Cultural Phenomenon "James Bond" on the Background of the Cold War
Kříž, Jaroslav ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Kovář, Martin (referee)
The thesis analyzes a historical development of James Bond films in a background of the Cold War between years 1962-1989. A fictional character James Bond is a cultural phenomenon, which became an absolute world-wide symbol from the point of popular culture since the sixties in 20 century. The main part of the thesis focuses on movies with agent 007 and describes the ideological base, which we can investigate. Secondarily, Bond's past is handled. Therefore, a development of the literary figure, who moved from spy novels to the screen, is analyzed in here. Further, parts of the thesis mention social background, which was greatly influenced by Bond topic in the second half of the 20th century. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Newest History of the Central Bohemian Borough Byšice
Sisák, Jiří ; Foltýn, Dušan (advisor) ; Míšková, Alena (referee)
TITLE: The Newest History of the Central Bohemian Borough Byšice AUTHOR: Bc. Jiří Sisák DEPARTMENT: History & History Didactics Department STUDY PROGRAMME: Teaching for high schools, Master degree Programme in History and Civics SUPERVISOR: Mgr. Dušan Foltýn ABSTRACT: This diploma thesis reviews the history of the borough Byšice in the last two centuries and attempts to assess the importance of the various epochs in the development of the community. The main body of the thesis examines its own history of the borough, the side lines represent the cultural history and the history of the village school in Byšice. All events are processed gradually in a chronological order. The role of various social groups in the history of the town is being examined, as well as the conversion of the urban village in the city. KEYWORDS: regional history, Czech towns, cultural history, history of education, 19th century, 20th century
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Mystification or serious play. Slavín in Liběchov
Petrasová, Taťána
The text examines the mystifying behaviour of Czech Society in the 1840s. In the case of the building Slavín near Liběchov, called the Czech Walhalla, the entrepreneur Anton Veith ordered 21 sculptures from Munich sculptor Ludwig Schwanthaler. Czech patriots tried 1843 to demonstrate that the figures of Jan Žižka and Jan Hus existed as the first works for Slavín, however, 1845 explaine their absence as the concealment from the "singular reason".
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