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Pretext of the Fictional Setting of the novel Sedmikostelí in Prague's New Town
Hrazdírová, Eliška ; Kudlová, Klára (advisor) ; Charypar, Michal (referee)
This thesis aims to analyse the possible forms of the relationship between historical architecture and urban concepts and literary fiction. As a concrete subject for this analysis it chooses the genre of the Gothic novel and its very concrete case, the novel Sedmikostelí (1999) by the Czech writer Miloš Urban. In the individual explanatory and interpretive chapters, he puts two unique ideological concepts in relation to each other. The first is the concept of the New Town of Prague in the thought of its founder, Charles IV. The second is the literary mirroring of this concept and its inspirational role for the fictional New Town in Urban's novel Sedmikostelí and for the central idea of the work, which is the utopian escape from the everyday into the Gothic period with its aesthetic and social ideals and rules. This escape is to enable the re-presentation in the work of the vanished Chapel of Corpus Christi, which in the minds of the novel's characters represents the centre of the space of the so-called Sedmikostelí. This work introduces the history and architecture of the New Town and the symbolic dimension of the urban concept in the thought of Charles IV and reveals step by step the relationship between this concept and the individual buildings, characters, and the ideological basis of Urban's...
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Catholic Reformation in the Prague Towns after the Battle of the White Mountain. Prague's New Town in a context of the process of the catholic confessionalisation
Fejtová, Olga ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor) ; Pešek, Jiří (referee) ; Hrubá, Monika (referee)
Catholic Reformation in the Prague Towns after the Battle of White Mountain. Prague's New Town in a context of the process of the catholic confessionalisation Abstract Olga Fejtová This thesis' methodological ground is a conception of both clerical and secular politics of recatholisation in a relation to Prague's New Town within the Post-White-Mountain period as part of a process of confessionalisation, i. e catholic confessialisation, within the paradigm that was introduced into European historiography in 1980s . The recatholisation within Bohemian lands in relationship to the paradigm of confessionalisation invokes a strategy of state and clerical power. Its enforcement and exercise in political practice were illustrated by normative materials that represented attendant signs of a development of the catholic confessionalisation. The target of this thesis is firstly to describe the progress of politics concerning recatholisation in a relationship to one of Prague's towns by using contemporary decrees of both secular and clerical origin. Furthermore, it shall investigate issues echoing within and from life of the New-Prague-Town's society of the 17th century. This within both public and private spheres of burgess' life. In order to reveal a correct reflection of the whole structure of the progression...
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Catholic Reformation in the Prague Towns after the Battle of the White Mountain. Prague's New Town in a context of the process of the catholic confessionalisation
Fejtová, Olga ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor) ; Pešek, Jiří (referee) ; Hrubá, Monika (referee)
Catholic Reformation in the Prague Towns after the Battle of White Mountain. Prague's New Town in a context of the process of the catholic confessionalisation Abstract Olga Fejtová This thesis' methodological ground is a conception of both clerical and secular politics of recatholisation in a relation to Prague's New Town within the Post-White-Mountain period as part of a process of confessionalisation, i. e catholic confessialisation, within the paradigm that was introduced into European historiography in 1980s . The recatholisation within Bohemian lands in relationship to the paradigm of confessionalisation invokes a strategy of state and clerical power. Its enforcement and exercise in political practice were illustrated by normative materials that represented attendant signs of a development of the catholic confessionalisation. The target of this thesis is firstly to describe the progress of politics concerning recatholisation in a relationship to one of Prague's towns by using contemporary decrees of both secular and clerical origin. Furthermore, it shall investigate issues echoing within and from life of the New-Prague-Town's society of the 17th century. This within both public and private spheres of burgess' life. In order to reveal a correct reflection of the whole structure of the progression...
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