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History and present of Cistercian monasteries libraries in Bohemia
Jíšová, Kateřina ; Večeřová, Petra (advisor) ; Buřilová, Marcela (referee)
Diploma thesis discusses the history of the library of the Cistercian order in Bohemia since the founding of the first monastery in 1143 through the Hussite wars, the Thirty Years War, the dissolution of monasteries during the reign of Joseph II. to the present. Most attention is given to the monasteries, which remained preserved for our generation. The final part of the diploma thesis deals with libraries in Vyšší Brod, Zlatá Koruna and Osek from the perspective of the reader. Attention is paid mainly funds, services and accessibility.
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The testaments of New Town burghers in the late middle ages
Jíšová, Kateřina ; Šmahel, František (advisor) ; Doležalová, Eva (referee) ; Pátková, Hana (referee)
Testaments are unique resource in the search for an understanding of the everyday lives of the residents of medieval towns. Through this medium it is possible to investigate religiosity, to analyse the social stratification of the population, and to map property relationships, family life or the relationship of individuals to death. In this country they have survived in a number of towns, including Český Brod, Plzeň (Pilsen), Kutná Hora, Litomyšl, Soběslav and Kadaň. The greatest number of testaments are found in Prague, where collections survive in the municipal rolls, along with inventories of effects in later periods, for almost the entire period from the 15th through to the 19th centuries. The oldest Czech testaments are in the memorial books of the Prague Old Town (MS 986, Liber vetustissimus) and date to the period beginning 1360 and ending 1419. A collection of some 80 testaments from the years 1428-1441 is to be found in a memorial tome (MS 992) of the Prague Old Town, while testaments from the Lesser Town (Malá Strana) survive in the council manual. An ever more designated agenda required the separation of books intended for the administration of effects from memorial or markets books. The New Town's Prague testaments are the most complete collection of Late Medieval testaments found within the...
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