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Medieval mural paintings with legend of Saint Wenceslas in 14th century
Gattringerová, Iva ; Royt, Jan (advisor) ; Pučalík, Marek (referee)
Medieval mural painting with legend of Saint Wenceslas in 14th century Thesis presents medieval mural paintings with the illustrations of life and murder of Saint Wenceslas from 14th century. Thesis is focused on summary of the topic literature and afterwards iconographical and formal description of five medieval mural cycles in Karlštejn castle, Dobroměřice, Černochov, Žďár u Blovic and House At the Stone Bell in Prague.
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Emperor Charles IV. and the Conquest of Brandenburg 1371 - 1373
Straka, Tomáš ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor) ; Hrdina, Jan (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe in detail the process of acquisition of the Margraviate of Brandenburg by Holy Roman Emperor and king of Bohemia Charles IV. It uses charters, chronicles, annals and other contemporary sources to map especially the military actions of the years 1371 - 1373, which eventually led to the conquest of Brandenburg. Furthermore, the thesis concentrates on the history of Charles IV's endeavour to seize this land in relation to his political and territorial ambitions. It is also concerned with Emperor's motivations and his diplomatic activities regarding Margraviate of Brandenburg and its seizure. In a special chapter it describes the structure of the army that Charles IV had at his disposal during the two campaigns to Brandenburg. The overall aspiration of this thesis is to be beneficial to the study of the uses of military might by Charles IV, as well as to the Czech military history of the second half of 14. century. Key words: Charles IV., Brandenburg, Margraviate of Brandenburg, military history, Otto V of Bavaria, Lands of the Bohemian Crown, 14. century
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The church of st. Bartolomeus in Pilsen
Ďurža, Karel ; Záruba, František (advisor) ; Scholz, Stefan (referee)
The thesis wants to explain a building historical evolution of church St. Bartolomeus in Pilsen. The topic is defined from the beginning to construction works to 16th century. The systematics of topic contains a historical evolution of the area from 9th century to be beginning from a Old Pzenec (Starý Plzenec) with a hilfort of the same name. Next the text narrates about a foundation of a town New Pilsen (Nová Plzeň), which is bound with a history of castle Radyně from time of the emperor Karel IV. History and conception of the church are explored by a architecture aspect. The topic is closed by a Šternberk's chapel, which was founded at the turn 15th and 16th century's and which was a last Gothic action this building. The construction periods are compared between them with a respect to style specifics from the foundation to 16th century. This work notes of a architecture overall also of architectural details and these wants to place this building into a context of the contemporary architecture.
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Use of aorist, imperfect and perfect in Czech prose in the middle of the 14th century
Zdeňková, Jana ; Dittmann, Robert (advisor) ; Kučera, Karel (referee)
This thesis deals with the use of the aorist and imperfect tenses and the periphrastic preterite in four Old Czech prosaic translated texts dated back to the beginning of the 2nd half of the 14th century. Analyzed texts are the part of the first edition of the Old Czech translation of the Bible (part of the Dresden Bible completed with the text of Proroci rožmberští (Prophets of Rožmberk), the Legend of St. Wenceslaus from The Old Czech Passional, The Apocalypse of Paul and two chapters of the text O svatém Jeronýmovi knihy troje. We deal with the percentual occurence of the verb forms under investigation and with the aspectual characteristics of the verbs of which the investigated forms are constructed. Also their relationship to the Latin pretext is examined. The acquired results are presented in tables and graphs. This thesis also includes an electronic database of the investigated verbal forms.
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John Henry, margrave of Moravia, and his wife Margaret of Tropau
Nemravová, Lenka ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor) ; Zilynská, Blanka (referee)
This thesis deals with life of John Henry of Luxembourg and his second wife Margaret of Troppau. Their marriage life had important part in politics of Charles IV, who was master of marriage policy. Work is based on sources, in which Margaret of Troppau is mentioned. For example chronicles, acts and bills. First chapter is about terminology of marriage, then there is short chapter about first marriage of John Henry and Margaret, countess of Tyrol. Family of Margaret of Troppau is also mentioned. Main part of the work is about marriage of John Henry and Margaret of Troppau, but we cannot say anything definite. Bachelor work would like get to know family life of margraves, where they lived, how their court looked like or what happened to their children. There is question of Margaret's death in the end and there are mentioned another marriages of John Henry. Key words: John Henry of Luxembourg, Margaret of Troppau, 14th century, marriage, Brno
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Legislation in the Tuscany Region in the Trecento: A Long Way from Latin to Volgare
Argalášová, Marta ; Štichauer, Pavel (advisor) ; Obstová, Zora (referee)
The subject of this diploma thesis is legislation in today's Tuscnay region in the Trecento. Its introductary part focuses on the general political and administrative legal situation in the determined area, the historical excursion also deals with sources of law in the Trecento. The second part focuses on the evolution of the tuscan dialect in the Duecento and Trecento, taking into account legal language as well. The third part is dedicated to legal language itself, to its specifics and peculiarities regarding the lexicon and also morphology and syntax. The final chapter is dedicated to a practical analysis of a legal document from the fourteenth century, Statuti dell'Opera di San Jacopo di Pistoia.
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Commandery of the Johanit´s order in Strakonice - building history and mural paintings
NOVÁKOVÁ, Soňa
The theme of submitted bachelor work called "Commandery of the Johanit´s order in Strakonice - building history and mural paintings" are remarkable high medieval mural paintings from first half of 14th century in the building of former Johanit´s commandery in Strakonice. The work deals in detail with formal and iconographic analysis of mural paintings. Besides iconographic analysis the work deals with foreign inspirational influences and binding on creation of illuminated manuscripts as well. The work is enriched by outline construction history of the building, history of Johanit´s order and relations between the Johanit´s order and Bavarian noble family.
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Minnesing and court literature at the court of last members of Přemysl's dynasty and the first membe luxembourg's dynasty
VELICKÁ, Olga
Qualifying work has interdisciplinary charakter. This work is concentrate on knowledge of history and culture of age last members of Přemysl´s dynasty and the first members of Luxembourg´s dynasty. The primary aim of work is to identify the conditions under which there is courtly literature and minnesing on the courts of these rulers. Next aim is using the comparative method to define the basic topics in prose and poetry. The secondary aim is recognizing influence of German and Latin literature domestic and foreign on literature written in Czech. The work ?Minnesing and court literature at the court of last members of Přemysl's dynasty and the first members of Luxembourg's dynasty? deals with years 1283?1306 and 1310?1333 taking into account also past years.
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