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Joanna of Rožmitál, the life story of a Bohemian queen by the end of the Middle Ages
Boušková, Eva ; Doležalová, Eva (advisor) ; Čechura, Jaroslav (referee)
The life of Joanna of Rožmitál (Rosenthal), who is mainly known as the wife of George of Poděbrady, was much more diverse and richer, than it could seem at first view. Being a noblewoman from a Catholic family, she married a "Calixtine."During her relatively short life, she managed to promote the succession of Jagiellonians to the throne, to participate in provincial diets, to resolve conflicts between Catholic and Calixtine noblemen and, after the death of her husband, to hold the highest office in the state. On the basis of extant sources and narrative literature I will try reconstructing Joanna's life, her court and heir governance along George's side and also after his death. Among other targets, the work will try to portray the life of a medieval noblewomen in a rather uneasy period.
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Jaroslav Lev of Rožmitál, diplomat and politician of the late Middle Ages
Trnková, Magda ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Bobková, Lenka (referee)
The thesis deals with the personality of Jaroslav Lev of Rožmitál. On the basis of available sources, it tries to show his life and political activities in the Czech kingdom. He was an important member of the aristocracy in the 15th century, who became famous for his diplomatic tour of Western Europe. He owed his ascension not only to his political skills, but also to the fact that his sister Joanna was the wife of Czech King George of Podiebrad. It was probably thanks to his diplomatic mission that he was more visible as an important politician of his time. He proved his abilities first as the Supreme Judge and then as the supreme Master of the Court. He did not only act in Prague but also in western Bohemia, where he was the Executioner of Pracheň region. Key words Jaroslav Lev of Rožmitál, lords of Rožmitál, 15th century, Prácheň-region, embassy of Georg of Podiebrad
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Clothing in Masterpieces of the Old Flemish School in the 15th Century
Václavíková, Kateřina ; Jarošová, Markéta (advisor) ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (referee)
The aim of the Bachelor's Thesis is to present an overview of the evolution of the 15th Century Burgunian fashion. The Thesis is based on the study of the masterpices by the Old Flemish painters and iluminators which had been represented by the official clothing of the Burgundian aristocracy and Flemish elite. The attention is espetially paied to the details of clothes, fabrics, patterns and accessoires. Final results are confronted with the literature and the examples from the 15th Century. Burgundian fashion of Western Europe, which evolved from Gothic is continually compared with clothing from renaissantian Italy and the attention is also paied to the contamporary trade with fabrics
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Captives. The works of Johann Schiltberger, George of Hungary and Konstantin Mihailović as testimonies about late medieval search for identity and cultural integration in the Muslim world
Srncová, Karolina ; Nejedlý, Martin (advisor) ; Drška, Václav (referee)
Captives. The works of Johannes Schiltberger, George of Hungary and Konstantin Mihailović as testimonies about late medieval search for identity and cultural integration in the Muslim world Bc. Karolina Srncová The master's thesis enquires into the phenomenon of late medieval reflection on Muslim society in captivity narratives, treatises and memoirs from the pen of former Christian captives. Through a comparison of testimonies by three Europeans, who spent long years in Ottoman or Tatar captivity, the thesis investigates the process of their integration in the Muslim world, their perception of this world, and the notion of it they kept after their return to Christian Europe. Apart from the literary reflection on the other the thesis also pursues authors themselves - how they perceived and constructed their cultural identity in the strange environment, what long-term modus vivendi they employed and by what narratives they tried to present their infidel past back in their homeland. Thus the work aims to contribute to our notion of the Christian-Ottoman encounters in the 15th century, but also to consider the cultural adaptability of late medieval man and the role of captives, men between two worlds, who had to cope with the demands of such an adaptation.
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Linguistic aspect of the selected old Czech literary text
Mohlesová, Lucie ; Šmejkalová, Martina (advisor) ; Palkosková, Olga (referee)
The topic of this thesis is the linguistic analysis of the Apollonius of Tyre novel contained in the Pinvicka collection, which comes from the second half of the 15th century. During the creation of the thesis is used especially the qualitative textual analysis, which is in the major part of the thesis supplemented by the quantitative statistical analysis. Opening parts of the thesis represent general information about the Pinvicka collection, in which is contained the analysed literary landmark, and about the literary landmark itself. Follows the detailed analysis of the orthography and of all linguistic layers, i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax and word formation. Every linguistic layer and the orthography are elaborated in a separate chapter. At the end of each chapter is the summary of the achieved results, which includes also charts and tables. In the chapter, which is devoted to the orthography, is primarily payd attention to the speech sounds, for which is typical disunited way of transcript. In the phonological part are treated phonic changes, which are realized in the text. The morphological part of the thesis is concerned with representation of word classes and particulary with grammatical cathegories of nouns and verbs. In the chapter, which treats syntactic plane, are analysed compound...
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The Memoirs of Philippe de Commines as a Source of the History of Political Thinking and the Diplomatic Practice
Vybíralová, Sára ; Nejedlý, Martin (advisor) ; Žůrek, Václav (referee)
The thesis deals with the memoirs of Philippe de Commynes and the possibilities of their utilization as a source on the history of mentalities. This significant politician and diplomat of Burgundian origin, although little known in our country, left the court of Charles the Bold to be in service of Louis XI of France. In his memoirs, written after the death of Louis XI., Commynes firstly celebrates this sovereign and secondly he attempts to intensify the didactic scope of the text through various literary resources (digression, exempla), and he tries to stress on some political and moral premises. Regarding the focusing on readers of monarchs and courtiers side, the Memoires approaches a different literary genre - mirrors for princes. Their advices are however targeted practically and often there rebinds some pragmatism even in their ethic tone. A progressive, modern flow in thinking in the work of Phillippe de Commynes is represented by his rejection of "useless" knight graces and values such as pride and glory, and enforcing of "wisdom" perceived entirely newly as a political skill combined with caution. The second part of the thesis attempts to map the testimony of the Memoirs about diplomatic experience of the time, in which symbolic communication and ritual played an important role on one...
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Masters of Prague Faculty of Arts 1437-1448
Kotau, Pavel ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Svatoš, Michal (referee)
The thesis deals with masters of arts who lectured at the Prague faculty of arts or graduated from it in the years between 1437 and 1448. The work includes a reconstruction of the corps of masters for the period, their individual descriptions, and an analysis of the academic community, with special attention to the ties between masters and groups of masters.
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Language analysis of the selected texts of the Pinvicka collection
Klubalová, Jana ; Šmejkalová, Martina (advisor) ; Palkosková, Olga (referee)
This thesis deals with the language analysis of the Tandarias poem published as a part of Pinvicka collection which was written in the 2nd half of 15th century by Jan Pinvicka z Domazlic. The attention is paid to the description of ortography and all language dimensions. The main aim of this thesis is to describe the language statement of the relic and evaluate the influence of the previous versions of theTandarias poem on the examined version published in Pinvicka collection. We found out that it is not possible to give an evidence that the examined poem is significantly influenced by the language usus of the 14th century when this subject was translated to Czech. But we claim that some of the language phenomena refering to older language usus can be explained with the personal language manner of author. Nevertheless the influence of the original German writing is obvious in the lexical dimension. The addressing of the writing to the bourgeoisie and other lower social classes is supported with the tendency of the language of the text to approach to the spoken form of language.
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