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The habitation model of central Považie in Middle Ages
Malec, Juraj ; Slivka, Michal (advisor) ; Unger, Josef (referee) ; Šalkovský, Petr (referee)
The problem of study of habitations (cities, villages, castles, small feudal castles, etc.) on the territory of what is now Slovakia in the Middle Ages counts within little investigated topics. This work is offering a comprehensive catalogue list of all settlemenmts, corresponding to the current state of research in this field, with the focus on fortification system. Specific problems of habitation will be solved on singular models with the most advanced level of archaeological and historical exploration. The region of central Považie was in the Middle Ages a very important part of Hungary, thanks to its straight contact with the region of Morava. A lot of fortification of various types, forming big frontier line, were built for the assecuration of these restless borders. Throught this territory passed the important Váh trade route, with several more-or-less important connections from the region of Morava. In its north part, in the victinity of the castle Budatín lied a very considerable trade crossroad, leading to regions of Silesia and Poland.
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Archeology of the Fortified Manor in the Czech Lands. To the beginnings of the Medieval Fortified Residences
Laval, Filip ; Klápště, Jan (advisor) ; Žemlička, Josef (referee) ; Unger, Josef (referee)
Archaeology of the fortified manor in the Czech lands To the beginnings of the medieval fortified residences The work is dedicated to the medieval fortified manor in the Czech lands with regard to the need to formulate new questions. He marginally considers the questions of actual and historical terminology and its semantic content. To explore the functions of the fortified manors the structure of the associated settlement is discussed. A substantial testimony is attributed to some of selected written sources pointing to the legal-historical or jurisdictional context of "private" fortified settlements/residences. A separate chapter is devoted to the analysis of several examples of archaeological research from the Czech lands and from western parts of Europe, which revealed situations classifiable to fortified manor, respectively castles, which was preceded by much less or not at all fortified settlements, while maintaining close spatial continuity. So the questions concerning the beginnings of that type settlements are pronounced. With this packet of problems the work deals applying a comparative analysis that leads to some reassessment of the importance of the Romanesque church with the western tower as a kind of reduction of the castle model known from contemporary (12th century) Western European regions...
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