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Cavaliers on the journey through Europe and time. Traveller reflexions of three Bohemian aristocrats from the beginning of the 17th century to the beginning 18th century
Kubíčková, Irena ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Holý, Martin (referee)
The main topic of the thesis called "Cavaliers on the journey through Europe and time. Traveller reflexions of three Bohemian aristocrats from the beginning of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th century" is an insight into the life and way of thinking of three early modern Bohemian aristocrats - travellers (Bedrich from Donin, Lev Vilem from Kounice and Krystof Vaclav from Nostice) through their literary work from their journeys. The main sources for this thesis were three contemporary travel books or rather travel diaries available to the wide public of researchers by the editions. The main subject of my research is to display and analyse the intellectual world of aristocrats-travellers on the basis of some specific categories and aspects characteristic to their literary works (social status, religion, age, type of journey and itinerary, representative retinue, the main spheres of their interest and attention, language form and stylistics, composition, etc.). The presented thesis also focuses on demonstrating the many-sided use of travel diaries and points to this specific type of document as a peculiar historical source. Key words: early modern era, travelling, travel books and travel diaries, czech lands, aristocracy
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Divination Practices of Christmas Ritual Cycle in the Czech Lands
Rovenská, Kateřina ; Janeček, Petr (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
My work presents a typological index of divination practices performed during an interval between the beginning of Advent and Epiphany (Three Kings' Day). This list is made of folk practices known in the Czech lands since advent of Christianity until now. Particular types of divination practices are sorted by goals achieved by divination, not chronologically. Framework of this work is made by general interpretation of the divination itself as cultural practice with introduction to the context of Christian Christmas celebration and also to the problematics of koexistence of Slavic pre-Christian culture with Christian culture in early Middle Ages. Main data use in my work are ethnographic data drawn from books of Č. Zíbrt, J. I. Hanuš and other Czech ethnographers. Theoretical parts are based on works of scholars of religion, folklorists and anthropologists such as M. Eliade, K. J. Erben or K. Richter. KEY WORDS: divination, future, Advent, Christmas, New year, new year, pre-Christian culture, Christian culture, Czech lands
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Jan Nejedlý and translation Civil Code in Czech
Hlavačka, Milan
In the early 19th century two codifications appeared simultaneously in Bohemia: one for the private law an the other one for Czech language. This two systematic codifications contained much stabilisation and modernisation potentional and they met in the translation of ABGB codex into Czech language.
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Documentary evidence as a source of data for studying droughts in the Czech lands
Řezníčková, Ladislava ; Brázdil, Rudolf ; Kotyza, O. ; Valášek, H.
Information about past droughts may be derived from the various kinds of documentary evidence. Documentary data are particularly applicable to the pre-instrumental period but may also be used for the overlapping period with instrumental records. They are extracted from written narrative sources, weather diaries, personal and official letters, newspapers, religious records, epigraphic sources, and other sources. Direct descriptions of weather facilitate identification of meteorological droughts, while descriptions of drought impacts are used to identify agricultural and hydrological droughts. Documentary evidence enabled the creation of series of precipitation indices which classify dry months on a scale of –1 (dry), –2 (very dry), and –3 (extremely dry). In this way, it is possible to study the frequency, seasonality, severity, and impacts of drought episodes in the pre-instrumental period.
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Czech epigraphy. The current state and outlook of an (not only) auxiliary historical science
Roháček, Jiří
The summary of problems facing Czech epigraphy and their influence on the status and future prospects of this field. The paper focuses primarily on Czech epigraphers, epigraphic institutions and methodology in the Czech Republic, assessing the actual and potential demand for epigraphic findings. The author also considers how this demand can be influenced to the benefit of all parties, including a general comparison with the situation in other countries.
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Flash floods in the Czech lands on examples from the 16th – 21st centuries
Munzar, Jan ; Ondráček, Stanislav
An often discussed and still topical question is whether the frequency of the occurrence of flash floods has been increasing in the last decennia or the impression results only from the increased interest (and improved technical possibilities) of media and wide public in these extreme hydro-meteorological phenomena. There are many floods of this type that can be documented from the past, which occurred before the hydro-meteorological measurements. Although they did not affect vast areas, they usually represented (similarly as today) crushing disasters for the hit territories. The contribution brings examples of such extremes from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st century, which went down in the flood history of the affected areas.
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Antiquity in the Inscriptive Culture of the Czech Lands
Kepartová, Jana
Author informs of the database that will contain inscriptions from the Czech lands that have something to do with antiquity. The aim of this longterm project is to gradually document and analyse the heritage of antiquity in the epigraphic culture of the Czech Lands from the first inscriptive documents to the present, regardless of whether or not the heritage is conscious or unconscious. The outcome of the entire project will be studies on 'Nachleben / the second life' of the ancient world in inscriptions in the Czech Lands, i.e. an area to which insufficient attention has been paid so far. Only in this phase of the project will the ways that antiquity had been getting into Czech inscriptions be studied. This second life of antiquity in our country will be confronted with the heritage of antiquity in the epigraphic culture of other Central European countries.
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