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Clement of Rome: his personality, work and place in the christian tradition
Török, Dan ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Tumis, Stanislav (referee)
In my work I deal with the personality of Clement of Rome and with the importance of his work. Firstly, I express my opinion about the date of Clement's activity, so I am able to put Clement into the historical context of early Christianity. Then, on the basis of both survey of the previous research and my own analysis I am trying to solve the question, who Clement was - with main interest in the question of his origin. The work also aims on classifying Clement's place in the development of Christian tradition. Thus I deal with the question of Clement's relationship to apostole Paul and his teaching and the problem of Clement's work and activity as the most important member of third generation of Christians. In the end, I am using the results to create a draft of the situation of Christianity in Clement's era and to propose questions suitable for future research.
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The Kingdom of Acre
Janoš, Ondřej ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Drška, Václav (referee)
The main topic of the thesis is basic problems of the Kingdom of Acre from 1187 to 1291. The first part briefly outlines the situation in Palestine during the First crusade, founding of Kingdom of Jerusalem, the increase of its importance and prestige in the political situation of the Middle East. Chapter ends with a fatal battle of Hattin. The second chapter, which is the main part of the whole work, is dedicated to restoring the kingdom during the Third crusade, internal struggles between the political factions , the resistance of the nobility against the centralized royal power, pursue of keeping the occupied territories and the problems that led to the downfall of the Kingdom by the conquest of the capital city of Acre in 1291. In this chapter I also want to present historical figures which have the historical influence on development of the Holy Land. Keywords Crusade, the kingdom, the nobility, Acre, Jerusalem, Antioch, Byzantine Empire, Muslims, Christians
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The Establishing of Medieval Empire. Wipo and Image of Empire.
Vláčilová, Eva ; Drška, Václav (advisor) ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee)
The thesis deals with the image of mediaval roman king and emperor and his power during the first half of the 11. century, as depicted in Wipo's work Gesta Chuonradi II. imperatoris. Conrad II., the first salian ruler is used as a model example of an ideal sovereign. The analysis of Conrad's image covers his reign as a king till his death, with peculiar focus on the forming of Conrad's empire, internal and foreign policy especially towards Italy and Burgundy. Furthemore the thesis concerns the discrepancy between reality and idealized behaviour of the ruler outlined in Wipo's work, as it was intended as an emperor's praise and as a guidebook for successor to the throne. Keywords: Wipo, Conrad II., ruler's image, Roman empire in 1. st half of 11. century.
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František Štverák, rector of Chvaly - opponent and prisoner of nazism and communism
Stříbrná, Anežka ; Rychlík, Jan (advisor) ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee)
The aim of my final bachelor thesis is to portray the life of František Štverák (1909-1956), a Czech catholic priest, who actively participated in the resistance against Nazi occupant regime. In spring 1940 he was arrested and interrogated by the gestapo. He experienced various concentration camps (Dachau, Sachsenhausen) surviving numerous life threatening situations under severe conditions. In April 1945 he lived to see the liberation of Dachau by the US army. In autumn that year he witnessed the trial of Nazi criminal from Dachau. After the communist revolution in February 1948 he stood up against the restraint of rights of the catholic Church in Czechoslovakia and its gradual liquidation. As a close collaborator of archbishop Josef Beran he was arrested in June 1949. During the period of custody he went through several communist prisons (Praha-Pankrác, Valdice-Kartouzy, Praha-Ruzyně). In January 1951 František Štverák was sentenced to twenty months in one of the many staged trial of catholic clerks and seculars. After having served his punishment he was held in internment (monasteries Želiv a Hájek) in the years 1951-1954. He was released in 1954 and two years later he died as a result of his long-term imprisonment.
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The Right of Exclusion in the Papal Elections
Suchánek, Drahomír ; Hrdina, Antonín (advisor) ; Kubín, Petr (referee) ; Valeš, Václav (referee)
The Right of Exclusion in the Papal Elections The project of this dissertation concentrates on the legal affairs, associated with the problem of exclusivity of catholic monarchs, applied in the form of veto privilege in papal elections. Although this claim was never officially recognized, it was used several times and influenced the effect of cardinal collegiums' voting. The study of this area should demonstrate legal basis of this question, ways and means of claiming the exclusivity right and diverse methods of interpretation of the supporters or opponents of its usage.
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The Cantigas de Santa Maria as a means of self-presentation of the king Alfonso X the Wise
Jaluška, Matouš ; Drška, Václav (advisor) ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee)
The thesis deals with a method of self-presentation employed by the king of Castile Alphonse X the Learned (†1284) as it appears in his Marian songbook Cantigas de Santa Maria, where the king proclaims himself to be a troubadour of the Virgin Mary, thus creating a double character of king-troubadour. The first part presents an analysis of the »king« aspect of this double character and the alfonsine concept of monarch as a comprehending head of the people. In the second part the troubadour persona of the king is scrutinized with special emphasis on proximity between those two concepts. It is shown along the way how the close relation with the saint enables the king to enrich his secular regal power with a touch of sanctity independent of Rome.
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The history of the Order of the Hermit Friars of Saint Augustine (13th-16th century)
Záhořová, Eva ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Drška, Václav (referee)
The aim of this publication is to provide basic introduction into the history of The Order of the Hermit Friars of Saint Augustine, which was founded on 9th April 1256 on initiative of the pope Alexander IV, by the Bull Licet ecclesiae. The order successively incorporated other north-Italian eremit brotherhoods following the Rule of Saint Augustine. Augustinian Hermits tlourished and expanded during the second half of the 13th century and this lead to early separation of individual provinces, including the Bavarian province which is described in more detail. Document also describes Augustinian masterminds of this province, the beginnings of the reform movement leading later to appearance of Martin Luther and also the main problems encountered by monks during the Hussite movement. The paper also points out at the importance of Augustinians within the process offoundation of central-European universities. The Order of the Hermit Friars of Saint Augustine was one the most important political, social and cultural factors during high and late middle age era in Europe.
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Latin Hagiography of Early Middle-Ages as a Source for Christianisation of the Central Europe
Izdný, Jakub ; Drška, Václav (advisor) ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee)
of the paper The goal of the submitted work is to compare extensively the first hagiographical concerning the process of Christianization in the Central Europe. By paralleling these texts across the national rounds and comparing their image with the current state of the historical research the author tries to understand the role of legend in the Christianization and in particular their possible use as a source for this period. The hagiographical image of paganism, the baptism of the state units, of the ruler and the usual way of the institutional spread of the faith with regard to the image of the lower social classes in the process are all examined in the thesis. Further, attention is paid to the coherence of the Central-European area observable in the typology and the content of examined hagiography.
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Latin medieval hagiographie, its structure and influence in Bohemian lands
Izdný, Jakub ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee) ; Drška, Václav (advisor)
I try to compare latine legends of first European christian monarchs of the early Middle Ages in my work. This way I detected some standard type of hagiographical story with this topic. The conformity lies in the way of acceptation of baptism, appearance of two secondary persons - the wife, who is accepting the sanctity, and the missionary bishop - and not least in using the theme of battle for faith. Especially the character of pious wife seems to be very important in hagiography and implies obviously the realy way of spreading christian religion with the marriage policy. As well important are findings, that despite the quite wide time span between the genesis of the oldest and the latest compared text, amplified by the different historical situation of Germanic and Central European peoples, shows the hagiography considerable similarity and proves the cultural alliance of West and Central Europe.
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