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The Memoirs of Přibík and John Bukovanský Pinta of Bukovany
KOREŠ, František
Supported by historical and anthropological approaches of methodology, the thesis submitted endeavoured to point out the life histories of two almost unknown knights of the period before the Battle of White Mountain, Přibík Bukovanský Pinta z Bukovan and his son Jan. Its principal part consists of a critical edition of rarely preserved family memoirs, written by both noblemen in the 16th and the early 17th centuries. The unique testimony of personal character, supplemented by the message of their personal and official correspondence and other kinds of historical sources, rendered the author the basic heuristic starting point to becoming acquainted with both everyday and unusual experiences, ideas and manners of thinking in concrete representatives of two different generations of lower nobility of the period before the Battle of White Mountain. I focused my research, gradually conducted in accordance with the biographical method, on presenting the family and public lives of both knights, their wives and offspring. Apart from this, the questions of transformation of complex networks of social relationships, formation of family memory, the effects of war and perception of various cultural models, were also given appropriate attention. The author's intention was to present one of the possible manners to approach the social history of lower nobility of the period before the Battle of White Mountain.
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