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Nourishment of the czech aristocracy in period before Bílá hora and contemporary medical literature
Měrková, Jana ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Zilynská, Blanka (referee)
(in English) The current thesis on Nourishment of the czech aristocracy in period before Bílá Hora and contemporary medical literature focuses on two main topics: dining and medicine. Today, both could be included under one label, which is nutrition. The thesis can be divided into two parts. The first one, on the topic of cuisine/dining of noblemen, introduces their diet, habits and provides a few examples of period recipes. The second one presents overview of books that addressed the issue of dining and cuisine at that time. This part also includes personal and literary profiles of several personalities whose writings contributed to this area. A link between these two parts is a chapter on cuisine from the perspective of physicians. In writing the thesis I relied mostly on two sources: literature on lifestyle and historiographic literature. The latter focuses on cuisine from an everyday life perspective without the medical point of view. The objective of the thesis is to show that cuisine, or nutrition is not only a matter of modern age, but it had its place in the examined period as well.
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The Renaissance decoration of the Lobkovic (Schwarzenberg) palace in Prague
Henslová, Barbora ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (referee)
The Baccalaureate thesis, "The Renaissance decoration of the Lobkowicz (Schwarzenberg) Palace in Prague", starts with a brief introduction into construction activities of aristocracy around Prague Castle during the reign of Ferdinand I who supported building of new residences in this part of the capital. Aristocratic families were buying properties and burgher houses burned out in a devastating fire of Lesser Quarter and Hradcany in 1541 and building their grand Renaissance palaces. Prague's High Burgrave, Jan Junior Popel of Lobkowicz, had his impressive palace built on the Hradcany Square between 1545 and 1567. He called an Italian architect Agostino Galli, who worked at Horsovsky Tyn, the main country residence of the Lobkowicz family, and he built an unusually T-shaped palace. Four rooms on the second floor still have well-preserved original coffered ceilings with paintings depicting scenes from antique mythology and history. Chosen subjects of the paintings, created by some house painter around 1580 when the palace was the residence of Krystof and Vilem of Lobkowicz, were nothing unusual at that time. However, the author of this idea was rather Jan Junior Popel, one of the most powerful aristocrats in the Kingdom of Bohemia.
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Arnošt Schwarzenberg - The Life of the Nobleman in the 20th Century
Juhaňáková, Veronika ; Županič, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
6 Abstract This diploma thesis deals with the life story of Ernest Prince of Schwarzenberg (1892- 1979). The 20th century was a century of upheavals and changes. All events of this hectic century are significantly reflected in Ernest's life. Ernest was born into the aristocratic family of Schwarzenberg, whose roots date back to the early 12th century. Members of Schwarzenberg's family held important position under the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. On this basis, Ernest received a proper upbringing and education. During the World War II he was a soldier on the front lines in Poland and Italy, but he also served in the imperial court in Vienna. After 1918, Schwarzenberg had to find its place in civil society in newly formed Czechoslovakia. In 1936, due to inheritance from his uncle Frederick II., Ernest became a landowner and tried to take care of his estate in Tochovice. During the World War II he had to defend Tochovice before Nazi rule and after the war he had to defend himself and his Czech nationality. After 1948, Ernest remained as the only one of the Schwarzenberg's family in communist Czechoslovakia. He lost all his assets, twice ended up in a communist prison, and yet refused to leave the country. The aim of this diploma thesis was to show the life and fate of Ernest Schwarzenberg with all the twists,...
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Sternberg's - the aristocratics Society in the "long 19th Century"
Tomsová, Petra ; Županič, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
The main aim of the thesis is to present an analysis of the younger Bohemian branch of Sternberg dynasty. The author follows the life of Zdeněk Sternberg († 1900) in his role of an owner and a successful caretaker of the dominions of Radnice, Český Šternberk and Jemniště. Furthermore, the problematic of aristocratic marriages is reconstructed through studying the fates of his sons Alois († 1907) and Filip († 1924). This theme was supplemented by identifying those values which were of consequence when an adequate partner for a member of aristocracy was sought. The problematic is demonstrated on the situations of both Alois who spent all his life as a bachelor and his younger brother Filip who married and enjoyed a family life. The private world of three Zdeněk's daughters is also reconstructed. The examples of Zdenka Schnönborn († 1915) and Kunhuta Lobkowicz († 1916) offer an insight into their daily dealings within their new families while the youngest sister Karolína († 1930) spent her years unwed and childless. The particular style of aristocratic life is demonstrated on interests and entertainment which the aristocracy fostered (travelling, hunt, horsemanship, artistic interests, sport, games, reading, theatre etc.). The final part of the work focuses on disputes surrounding the issue of...
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The Castle Library of Mladá Vožice
Bendová, Lenka ; Voit, Petr (advisor) ; Šípek, Richard (referee)
(in English): The aim of this dissertation is arranging of the library fund of zámecká knihovna Mladá Vožice. The main purpose of this paper is to define this fund with respect to the provenience and its content. Contemporary conditions of the library are outlined in the Introduction. In the following chapters the history of the castle as well as the history of the noble families involved in establishing of this collection is being described. The main emphasis lays on the family of the collections founders -the family of Küenburg. Fourth chapter describes history of the library on the basis of provenance research. In accordance with this is the identification of the books owners from Küenberg, Spiegefeld and Schönfeld family. In the same manner different families and persons with no direct lineage to Küenbergs are characterized. At the same time this part of the work engages the characteristics of the fund in respect to particular members and partially also including the content characteristics, which are being elaborated properly by means of thematic groups in the following chapter. The information about arrangement of the fund are mentioned on the basis of the archive material and sources. Conclusion is made as a summary of the work, including the overview of its aims and achieved results.
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Bubna of Litic Family in the modern History
Lechmannová, Monika ; Županič, Jan (advisor) ; Skřivan, Aleš (referee)
This thesis attempts to map the history of the Buben of Litice family. It describes its history since the end of the 14th century, its property ownership, and its social status. However, the thesis focuses on the second half of the 19th century, the first half of the 20th century and the person of count Michael Mario Otakar Bubna of Litice (1864-1949). Count Michael Bubna of Litice was the head of the family Buben of Litice precisely in this period. He became the last owner of the Doudleby Castle and the surrounding domain before the communist takeover. Count Michael belonged to the old generation of aristocracy, which had been raised in the obeisance to tradition and dignity. During his life, he witnessed the collapse of old-fashioned values of Austria- Hungary, the public disclaim of its old traditions and principles, and, furthermore, the consecutive loss of the family property. This thesis describes the position of the Buben family among the Austro- Hungarian aristocracy, its fate in the postwar era, as well as in the time of the World War II, when the son of count Michael Bubna of Litice, Mikuláš, became the minister of agriculture in the Protectorate government of the general Alois Eliáš. Key words: Nobility, arictocracy, the Buben of Litice family, history, count Michael Bubna of Litic
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Provenance and content survey castle library Chuchelná
Nebeská, Barbora ; Mašek, Petr (advisor) ; Šípek, Richard (referee)
Theme of this bachelor thesis is provenance and contentual survey castle library Chuchelná. The first chapters are describing ancestry of the Lichnowsky family, history of village Chuchelná and castle buildings. Chapter called "Provenance characteristic of library collection" identifies book owners from Lichnowsky family and assignes individual fascicles to their owner. In chapter "Contentual analysis of the library collection" is elaborated the main subject matter - expresionism, which relates to the principal "magnifier" of this library, Mechtilda Lichnowsky. This chapter covers other contentual categories as well. [Author abstract]
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