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Estate members of the Bohemian Land Diets in the years between 1606 and 1610
ZIMOLA, Josef
This master's thesis deals with the noble estate members of the Bohemian Land Diets in the years between 1606 and 1610 and develops the bachelor's thesis. The first part focuses on a brief summary of knowledge about the institutions of the diets and their role in the political system of the time preceding the Battle of White Mountain. The second chapter describes the political background of the years in which the examined diets took place. Parliamentary resolutions emerged directories of the present estate members, which are the key to the most important part of the work - specially the analysis of the composition of the present nobility at the session of the Diets. Data about the present nobles were obtained mainly using the available literature and sources. To the fundamental characteristics of those people belong the estate integration, regional pertinence, wealth, religious orientation, some cultural activities, and mutual relative marriages. The final part of the thesis contains an attempt to define the core of the parliament and compares the results of the research with the findings of the bachelor's thesis. The main goal of the work is mainly to deepen the existing knowledge about persons who defended the interests of the estates on those meetings at the beginning of the 17th century.
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The Estate Members of the Bohemian Land Diets before the Outbreak of the Bohemian Revolt
ZIMOLA, Josef
This bachelor thesis deals with the estate members of the Bohemian Land Diets before the Bohemian Revolt between the years 1618 to 1620. The first part focuses on the description of the institutions of the diets in the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th century. It deals with the role of the diets in the political system of the Bohemian estate monarchy, their competencies, the course of negotiations and the meaning of this institution as an important communication platform between the estates and the monarch. Next part of the thesis focuses on the political development in the last few years before the beginning of the Bohemian Revolt. It mainly deals with the events in the years 1616 and 1617 when the two land diets took place. Resolutions arisen on these meetings contain directories of the estate members, and their structure was based on the current literature and published sources. To the fundamental characteristics of those people belong the estate integration, regional pertinence, wealth, religious orientation, some cultural activities, and mutual relative marriages. The final part of the thesis compares detected information about participants of both land diets and tries to answer who defended the interests of the Bohemian estates on those meetings.
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The burial ritual and genesis of the new graveyards in the Kingdom of Bohemia of early modern period
SAMEK, Jakub
This diploma thesis will focus on the issue of burial rites before the year 1620. The first part will introduce the comparison of the burial ritual with the three most common confessions that were important in the early modern Kingdom of Bohemia. Priestly agendas will be the main written sources for this section. The second part will point to the origin of new graveyards. The main aim of the second part will be the description of the concrete graveyards located in the Kingdom of Bohemia, except Prague, which were created throughout this period. Furthermore, it will present three elementary causes of their establishment. The encyclopaedia Města a městečka v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku written by Karel Kuča will be the initial literal source of information. The primary sources will be some books about early modern law which help discover the issue of founding new early modern graveyards. The other primary sources could be letters or testaments.
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Jakub Popovický of Popovice and other students from the Czech Lands at the Wittenberg University
ROSÍKOVÁ, Kateřina
This diploma thesis deals with education in early modern period, especially at universities, which is related to the issue of grand tours. It is mainly focused on the Wittenberg University, where Jakub Popovický of Popovice studied and whose album amicorum is the subject of this thesis. One of the main goals is to introduce a group of friends, acquaintances and colleagues of Jakub Popovický who he met in Wittenberg or after his studies in Bohemia. In the edition of the Wittenberg University Register we will also search for other students from Bohemia and Moravia and we will try to gather information about them from various sources (for example from their alba amicorum, diaries or literature) to understand where they came from to Wittenberg, their social structure, their lives and subsequent careers.
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The Ceremonial Entry of the Emperor Rudolph II to Olomouc in 1577
BURIANOVÁ, Zuzana
The presented thesis deals with the Ceremonial entry of the Emperor Rudolph II to Olomouc in June 1577 and ancient ritual of corporative indulgence, which legitimatized the accession of the ruler to the throne. The authoress wanted to approach the Early modern celebration by methodological concept of symbolic communication whose theoretical data were compiled especially by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger. The thesis is based on scientific approaches of historical anthropology and tries to introspect into the history of mentalities. The authoress analyses the period source whose author was an eyewitness of the whole event. In introduction of this thesis the authoress deals with presentation of methodological resources, literature which was hinge for this thesis, and of used sources. In the sekond chapter there is described the journey of the Emperor Rudolph II to Prague, from there was started the encomiastic wandering through countries of Habsburg Monarchy. The third and the fourth chapter are based on analysis and interpretation of the sources and those chapters are fundamental for this thesis. In the third chapter there is indicated the perception of superiority and power which is reflected in hierarchical organisation of Early modern society. The fourth chapter deals with presentation of Rudolph II by symbols used during his triumphal entry into the city. In conclusion of this thesis the authoress summarizes the results of the research. On the basis of the results she answers the questions which she asked herself while writing this thesis. Festivities were welcomed dulcification of daily life in Early modern period. They had exact given form therefore any disturbance of theirs ritual course was strongly noticed. The authoress finds the conclusion that in the higher Early modern society there played a main role the position and the ceremonial was one of the possibilities how to present that position.
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Construction of Womanhood in the Early Modern Period
SLABOVÁ, Ilona
The thesis ?Construction of Womanhood in the Early Modern Period? may be understood as a particular contribution to the exploration of gender roles in the early modern history society. The source basis of this exploration consists of moralizing writings from 16th and 17th century. These writings are focused on the woman and her social position or on the matrimony. In the first case, their content can be approached as a ?guide? of a sinful woman to the right way or as a glorification of woman gender. In the second case, the matrimony writings try to elevate this bond upon virginity and they introduce the duties of the married couple. Concrete opinions on women originated from the medieval tradition. The woman was still seen as faint and weak. This was the reason why the man had to supervise her and control her, and therefore, he had to have absolute authority. Her place was inside the family where she had children and housekeeping to care for. On the other side, the importance of marriage as such had begun to grow in importance compared to virginity because it was more useful for a society. With the ascent of matrimony, the position of a woman as its part improved as well. The goal of this thesis is to explore how the womanhood is constructed in these writings and to uncover basal intellectual stereotypes regarding women in this period. Quoted moralizing writings are formally analyzed and subsequently compared in the first part of the thesis. Other parts are focused directly on a woman and on the reconstruction of her contemporary ideal image and its counterpart.
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Regulation and Restriction of Entertaining Activities in the Environment of the Unity of the Brethren in the Pre-White Mountain Period
Růčková, Markéta
The effort of the Unity of the Brethren as a church group was to form a Christian community according to the biblical image of the Apostolic Church, in which the supreme authority is the Scripture, which also serves as the highest measure of proper conduct at all levels. The behaviour of all Brethren members was to be adapted to this accordingly. Although the social structure of the Brethren members changed over its existence, the principles of order and discipline, characterised by an emphasis on moral quality of life, obedience and God’s commandments applied to all its members, regardless of estate or social status. On the basis of\nnormative sources derived from fraternal leaders or issued in synodal resolutions, as well as narrative sources, especially sermons, it is possible to observe how the Brethren viewed the entertainment activities of its members, celebrations related to human life events, holidays, music and games. However, the strict rules necessarily led to their violation when applied in practical life. \n
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Middle European Military Camps in 1550-1650
Andresová, Klára ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Ďurčanský, Marek (referee)
The subject of this thesis is the problematics of the military camps of Christian armies in the Central Europe between 1550-1650. We focus on the camps of the Habsburg Monarchy and German lands, yet some space is given to the situation in Poland and Hungary. The introductory chapters consist of a characterization of the source material and an overview of the present state of research. Furthermore, excursuses into several topics related to the military camps of the early modern period are made. Thus, characterizations of the crucial war conflicts of the period, contemporary strategies and tactics, principals, composition and equipment of the armies, of the ranks, and of the life of soldiers are provided. The core of this work is an interpretation and comparison of treatises written by military theorists, who dealt with the problematics of camps, namely of the works by Jan Tarnowski, Guillaume du Bellay, Leonhardt Fronsperger, Lazarus von Schwendi, Giorgio Basta, Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen, and Raimondo Montecuccoli. Additionally, an analysis of the military orders of the Roman emperor Maximilian II and of the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf is supplied, followed by memoirs and diaries of soldiers of that era, and contemporary literary fiction. Although the thesis includes brief characterizations of...
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Inter-cultural historical anthropology
Náhlovský, Michal ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Korecká, Zuzana (referee)
Historical anthropology is a relatively young science discipline. On many projects in the framework of theoretical tasks so far. This work is a bunch of strangers to focus on inter-cultural comparison in the context of historical anthropology. This work will be conducted following the line of the official sources of the history. Rather than the actor himself, will be viewed for what could, in theory, the player or what was his academic freedom. By comparing the two locally so different areas, such as the Czech lands, and Beninese imperium, has a bunch of strangers try to show a comparison as possible in varying degree. The work aims to compare the rights and that mountain obligation the lowest classes of the two States. It has to happen, implanted in the reality of time known as the early modern period in Europe. The work will be based mainly on the strands of legal provenance. Work gives the objective comparison of these facts, without any claims to their binding evaluation.
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Courier Service in Dvůr Králové n. L. in the Early Modern Period
Iša, František ; Čechura, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kostlán, Antonín (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the issue of oral and written communication through the groups of couriers, who mediated between smaller royal dowry town Dvůr Králové nad Labem and its own villages as well as another distant locations situated in another dominion. Diploma thesis applies to region called Podkrkonoší in the advanced Early Modern Period, describes and analyses some of the preserved archival primary sources of knowledge dedicated to the courier services in Dvůr Králové nad Labem. It mentions the enviroment in which the gateke- epers and other couriers fulfilled their services. This thesis attempts to define the relationship between the distance and courier's income in Dvůr Králové nad Labem's domain and outside of it. In the context of diverse contents of oral and written messages the thesis mentions sever- al other topics, for example the actual filling work of corvée (or statute labour), showing by gatekeepers the way to hussar-soldier at surveying, transport of beggars and vagabonds and even the beginning of postal services in this area. Working method is based on detailed archival probe into rarely preserved municipal bookkeeping, especially into records of gate- keeper's courier services and records of other settled couriers both from the year 1740 and 1768. Results are presented...
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