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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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Provenance and content characteristics of the Library collection in castle Biskupice
Bendová, Lenka ; Mašek, Petr (advisor) ; Buřilová, Marcela (referee)
(anglicky) This bachelor's thesis processes the library collection in Castle Biskupice. The aim of this thesis consists in the provenance and content characteristics of the library collection in Castle Biskupice. The introduction describes the present situation of the library. The second chapter deals with the library's history. The third chapter outlines the gradual creation of the library and the history of the families that had built it. In the Chapter ˝Provenance characteristics of the collection, an identification of books owners from the family lines of Schaffgotsch, Pálffy, Thurn-Taxis, de Linge and their genealogical relations is provided. Furthermore, this chapter characterizes the collections of particular family members. Partially, it also extends to the collection content characteristics that are provided in general in the follow-up chapter. It divides the collection into particular genres and describes interesting books and authors whose works are to be found in the castle library. The conclusion contains the thesis summary, achieved results and outcomes.
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The wedding of Adam II. of Hradec and Catharine of Montfort
ŘÍHOVÁ, Jana
This thesis deals with the wedding of Adam II. of Hradec and Catharine of Montfort. In a connection with the wedding strategies in the early modern period, this thesis explains the choice of a bride which was very crucial in the aristocratic environment not only for the married couple but also for their wide social surrounding. Then this thesis focuses on the whole ritual of wedding celebration from the courtship to the bride's arrival to the castle in Jindřichův Hradec in 1574. The nobleman's need to represent his noble estate is reflected in this celebration and Adam II. spent a huge amount of money on this wedding even though his domain was highly in debt. The thesis also analyses the wedding poems written in honour of the married couple by humanistic poets. Latin poetry refers to the nobility and ancient origin of the noblemen of Jindřichův Hradec and emphasizes the continuation of the generation which could be achieved only by the posterity. The marriage is observed in a political and religious context of the period because it is closely related to the noblemen of Jindřichův Hradec who had numerous links to the House of Habsburg and also to the following religious development in Jindřichův Hradec, which were catholic thanks to the influence of Catherine of Montfort.
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The land rebels at the beginning of early modern times
VALIGOVÁ, Tereza
This bachelor work provides a comprehensive view of the land rebel on the basis of legal documents from the turn of the 14th and 15th century till 1627. Through the Land Code-book, royal decrees and concrete examples drawn from the noble correspondence from the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, the work delimits the typology and the course of detriment. It defines the concrete land rebels, who were known throughout whole the Bohemian Kingdom. These were mainly Kryštof and Jindřich of Gutštejn, whose impact was extended to the foreign countries and thus they endangered the Bohemian Kingdom. Another one is the famous story of revenge to The Old Town of Prague from Jiřík Kopidlanský. The fight of estates between the nobility and cities was depicted on the background of this story.
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Noble memorial book of John George of Schwamberg from the years 1565 - 1615 (1812)
HOSPASKA, Jindřich
This diploma thesis critically handles memorial book of John George of Schwamberg, leading noble of Bohemian kingdom, politician, contemporary and inheritor of lasts Rosenbergs. Partly dedicated to memorial books as a phenomenon of early modern age and live of John George from Schwamberg. Objective of this diploma thesis is approximate personal life of Schwamberg, partly his itinerary and circle of "masters and friends" through notes recorded in memorial book. Emphasis is put on individual listings and ilustrations and the differences are taken into account from other memorial books from the same period, possibly on matters that can be found in memorial books routinely too. Diploma thesis deals with emergence of memorial book of John George from Schwamberg, its destiny after death of John George and its next owners too.
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"Sie sind Aristokratin?" Noble women in 20th century on example of Sternberg family
NEMRAVOVÁ, Lenka
The Diploma thesis aims at lives of the aristocratic women in the 20th century. The focus is placed on their perception of the political events of the period and changes of their role both within family and society. This issue is analyzed with help of the example of three female aristocrats who married into the old Czech family of the Sternbergs, more specifically, three ladies belonging to three different generations Karolína Sternberg, b. Thurn-Valsassina-Como-Vercelli (1863-1944), Kunhuta Sternberg, b. Mensdorff-Pouilly (1899-1989), and Alžběta Sternberg, b. Hrubá z Gelenj (*1929). The description of their lifetimes follows after the more theoretical part dealing in general with the position of women in the 20th century as well as with a brief history of the Sternberg family. The environment in which the ladies grew up is taken into account, too. Apart from the private written documents, the thesis is also based on some interviews with several living members of the family. The concluding part comprises a comparison of the ladies´ lives towards each other and towards the non-aristocratic society.
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Premarital correspondence of Friedrich Ferdinand Dalberg and his fiancée Kunigunda Vittinhoff-Schell
IVANIČOVÁ, Barbora
The topic of presented bachelor thesis is premarital correspondence of Friedrich Ferdinand Dalberg and his fiancée Kunigunda Vittinhoff-Schell, dated to 1846. The thesis tries to analyse the letters in their context, pinpointing their most frequent topics. Through this analysis, the author attempts to take a glimpse into the thoughts and emotions of these two fiancés in the changing society of the 19th century. An extensive collection of premarital and other correspondence, located in the archive of the Dalberg family at Moravský zemský archiv in Brno, forms a basis of the thesis.
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Orlík´s Schwarzenberg and their officers between years 1848 and 1948
ZEISOVÁ, Alena
Schwarzenbergs, a noble family coming from Lower Franconia, settled down from 1660 in the end in Czech countries. Jan Adolf Schwarzenberg bought manor Třeboň at that time. At the beginning of eighteenth century split the family to two anchestries. Submitted dissertation insists on the researches in the archive files completed with specialized publicatons. The text is composed of three units. Opening part gives us the specification and characteristics of the used archival resorces and literature. The second part is divided to the several chapters. The first chapter discuss the family history and land effects expansion. The third chapter describes the complicated administrative agency. The fourth chapter introduces patrimonial clerkdom including their personal and professional lives. The fifth chapter is dedicated to Josef Bohdanecký, the principal forester of the forest management in Orlík. He came to be known by his forest crop protection project, so called Orlíks or milimetre thinning. The final part contains the general estimation of the clerkdom place in the Schwarzenbergs service.
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"..and he must be able to ride the horse primarily, and the grammar afterwards." The nobleman and the horse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
KRAMPEROVÁ, Petra
The presented degree work sets the aim of introducing one of typical displays of aristocratic life - horse riding and horse racing ? in the actual example of primogeniture and secondo geniture of the noble family Schwarzenberg in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As the basic information sources there were used aristocratic large estates collections, some sources of personal character and, last but not least, iconographic sources. The first part of work deals with the horse-breeding at aristocratic estates. It acquaints with the organization of horse raising on Schwarzenberg horse-breeding farms, raised horse breeds, and clarifies the purposes of raising such animals. Above all, this part asks the question to what extent the nobleman himself participated in the organization of horse breeding and what personal relationship to these creatures he experienced. The second part introduces in detail some activities which brought gentlefolk diversion and enjoyment, especially horse races, equestrianism, carousels, and of course, hunts and hunting pastime. All these activities were the privilege of upper classes, but in the 19th century they greatly influenced the other social classes and became the base for modern equestrianism we know today. The last part dwells on horses with relation to the arts. This noble animal has always been the Muse of artists and the symbol of nobility, elegance, speed and power. Till now in the castle collections we have been tracing a large number of horse portraits (either with their noble owners or without them) and horse- riding scenes. Even the horse equipment - harness, sledge or horse-drawn couches - were reflected in arts. And such equipment could have been displayed as a work of art in noble family galleries, or at least created the period atmosphere of magnificent winter man?ges.
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