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Medieval society and landscape, their reciprocal relationship and influencing
Horák, Jan ; Klápště, Jan (advisor) ; Lisá, Lenka (referee) ; Gojda, Martin (referee)
1 Jan Horák Medieval society and landscape, their reciprocal relationship and influencing Dissertation English abstract Introduction Archaeology is a discipline focused on human. And although we can find many specialisations in it, like medieval archaeology or environmental archaeology, we should not forget the possibilities of stepping out of these specialised ways or of binding them together. Archaeology can also contribute to the knowledge about us and about our own society. The ways in which medieval people have dealt with nature offer many interesting possibilities of ideas and concepts, which are applicable not only on archaeological methods, but also on a reflection of us. This study aims on topic of a relationship between medieval society and a landscape with example of the relationship with soils. This choice is based not only on an importance of the soils for medieval people, but also on the importance of soils in archaeological research. The soils are an archive of archaeological information and are also one of the most used explanatory factors of environment oriented interpretations. But these interpretations often lead to inconsistent and wrong results. This study is therefore aimed also on a critique of archaeological methods. To make such critique possible - as to evaluate archaeological...
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