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The journey of Princess Eleonore of Schwarzenberg to Great Britain in 1838 and her son Walter Prosper
Bouška, Jan ; Županič, Jan (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is the reconstruction of the 1838 journey of prince Johann Adolf II. of Schwarzenberg to Great Britain, as described by his wife, princess Eleonore née of Lichtenstein, who accompanied him. In the connection with the British journey of the couple, the thesis also deals with their son, prince Walter Prosper, conceived along the way to Britain. With regard to the premature death of prince Walter, the focus is primarily on his funeral ceremony and the connected rituals. To explore the chosen topic, a lot of archive material, that had not been processed before, was used. Based on said archives, a partial reconstruction of the journey was possible, from the point of view of Eleonore, who is a rather overlooked figure in historiography. Additionally, the funeral ritual of prince Walter is described and compared with common funerals of Schwarzenberg family. Key words: Schwarzenberg family, Eleonore of Schwarzenberg, journey, Great Britain, Johann Adolf II. of Schwarzenberg, Walter Prosper, death, funeral, burial, ritual, crypt
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Annahof
Matoušek, Jaroslav ; Hradecká, Irena (referee) ; Ponešová, Barbora (advisor)
Anenský dvůr used to be a farm surrounded by fields just a few dozen meters from the Austrian border. It worked even during the fifties before the creation of the Iron Curtain. Agricultural activity slowly subsided, people disappeared. Nature began quietly but ceaselessly, in small portions, getting on its side after the interval division. Buildings and their surroundings started to change. Nature has changed in fifty years place unrecognizable. Clearly defined boundaries are erased, flash greenery spread to the surrounding area and has created a specific single entity defining the surrounding chaos. Such a situation is the basis for the layout of the new cemetery. Current enhanced peripheral borders are strengthened by planting oaks, while the interior is modified. Most of invasive acacia and other shrubs are removed. The original character of the place, floodplain meadow is reinforced by planting new trees, such as birch or cherry. The new cemetery consists of two main areas - internal groomed lawn under clearly defined square walls, which leads to deposition of ash and vice versa in the outer belt informal grown meadows are individual pavilions cemetery.
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Reconstruction possibilities of Brno 2 shaman burial. A palaeoethnological study
Balák, L. ; Nývltová Fišáková, Miriam ; Škrdla, Petr
Alexander Makowski discovered Brno 2 grave on current Francouzská street during a sewage building in 1891. He published a list of finds with basic description of their position within the grave next year. Unfortunately, no plan nor sketch was published, what causing reconstruction attempt more difficult. Althought thje material from this burial was several times reanalysed, no scientific reconstruction of burial situacion were made. Therefore, with the 120 anniversary of the dicovery, we present basic ideas for burial recosntruction.
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Relationship to Death and Burial Perception of the Students of the Faculty of Health and Social Studies
ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ, Marie
This work deals with issues concerning the death, burial and everything related. The main objective of this work was to determine how students of Social Work in Public Administration perceive this issue. Writing a bachelor thesis on this topic occurred to me after I attended the funeral of my grandfather. The funeral was held at the crematorium in Czech Budejovice and I was very surprised how impersonal impression it made on me. Due to this event, I thought it would be interesting to find out the attitude of the students who study a discipline which could bring them into this area (care for the dying, the bereaved, etc.). The work is divided into two main parts, namely the theoretical part and the practical part. The theoretical part deals with terms such as death, dysthanasia, tabooisation of death, dying and related phases commonly known as pre finem, in finem, and post finem. Furthermore, in this section you can find the most widespread conception - stages of dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Subsequently dying care issue, dying care options that are commonly utilized and palliative care necessarily attached appear in this thesis. This last issue has been included in the theoretical part, because I think that in institutions where palliative care is offered, help of the social worker is an important service. The theoretical part then focuses on the survivors, where professional counselling for survivors is mentioned as well, although it has appeared in our country just recently. Furthermore, in the theoretical part, you can find a brief history of funerals and burials not only in the Czech Republic, but also throughout the world, where the diversity of rituals is often determined by religion. And last but not least the issue of suicide is also mentioned in this part. In the empirical part the method of qualitative research was used. It was conducted using semi-standardized interviews. 10 communication partners, more precisely students of the Faculty of Health and Social Studies at the University of South Bohemia - branch Social Work in Public Administration, participated in the interviews. The interviews were carried out between 30 to 60 minutes in places that communication partners had chosen themselves. Individual interviews were recorded on a voice recorder and later transcribed. The questions were divided into three groups for the purpose of better evaluation. The first area was focused on understanding the terms, which had been used and explained in the theoretical part, the second circuit concerned death and dying in the future profession of the communication partners or in their experience and the last circuit to investigate whether they had already had any experience with death in the sense of attending the funeral and how they perceived their own mortality. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using cluster method. The aim was to find out how full-time students - branch Social Work in Public Administration at Health and Social Faculty at the University of South Bohemia in Czech Budějovice perceive matters concerning the death and burial.
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Funeral Ceremony Songs of the South Bohemian Blata in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Tyllner, Lubomír
The agricultural area of South Bohemia belongs to the regions where the steady advancement of industrialization created conditions for survival of continuous phenomenons of traditional culture, survival incomparably longer then in other regions. Up to the 1970s, in the region of Blata in South Bohemia had been kept a traditional funeral rite that in a great part contained of songs above the open coffin of the deceased.
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Atypical burials in medieval Bohemia
HLADÍKOVÁ, Miroslava
Tthis presented work is focused on a issue of atypical burials in medieval Bohemia. There are groups of people and the reasons which they led a community to such an action at that time. This work contains a summary of selected sites with the mentioned specific graves. Analysis and evaluation of character and significance of atypical burials in a medieval community is a part of this work.
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The Presentation of Death and Dying in The Media and The Influence of The Presentation on The Process of Forming The Attitude towards Death
KADLECOVÁ, Hana
The thesis deals with mass media and the way they treat the presentation of death and dying. Trying to find an answer to the question of whether mass media can have an impact on changing attitudes of contemporary human being to death and dying. The thesis is divided into nine parts. The first four sections form the theoretical framework and characterize today's postmodern society, typical features of contemporary human being ?s behavior, his/her perception of the world and themselfves, the influ nce of education, culture and beliefs. The thesis also deals with the position of mass media in postmodern society, and briefly describes current research on the influence of mass media on people. It mentions the most common dividing of mass media technologies into television, radio, print and the Internet. On this theoretical framework is consequently based the analysis of the presentation of death and dying in various types of media - this part of the thesis is more practically oriented and is complemented by a number of pictorial material. It tries to capture the most significant features of the presentation of death and dying on TV (news, film, advertising) and radio (news and some opinion programs), in the broadsheets and tabloids as well as on internet news, blogs and social networks and also in internet advertising. The thesis concludes that the current mass media are nearly oversaturated with the death and dy ng topic, making the viewer (reader, listener) apathetic and easily accustomed to continuously increasing greater violence. Death pictured by media is unnatural and often violent, in which significantly collides with the lived reality. Media cause devaluation of death and lower its importance, which causes declining empathy towards the diseased and dying as well as the absence of respect for the deceased.
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Burial Rituals
BOHOŇKOVÁ, Denisa
This work mainly deals with burial rituals and a way of handling with dead bodies from past times to the presence. The first chapter tries to define basic terms speci-fied by various authors. The second chapter deals with a description of burial ritu-als during present and past times. This chapter mainly focuses on the Czech tradi-tion and is completed by G. Maiell{\crq}s research on contemporary exploitation of crematoriums. The third part of the work deals with the burial rituals of pre-Christian cultures in Europe, especially Celtic, Germanic and Slavonic traditions. The fourth chapter focuses especially on the rituals of noneuropean cultures, e.g. Chinese or Islamic. The last part of this paper includes special ways of burying of dead bodies, e.g. children{\crq}s burials, burials of young people or dealing with dead bodies by unusual situations, e.g. during epidemic periods.
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