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Comparative study: Economies of Obazine and Plasy Monasteries in the Middle -ages (12.-13. century)
Müllerová, Gabriela ; Charvátová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Těšínská Lomičková, Radka (referee)
The thesis focuses on the economy of the Cistercian Order, from its inception until the end of the 13th century. There are two parallel analysis of monasteries Obazine (France) and Plasy (Bohemia), which are compared in the final part of the research. First the study present foundation of monasteries in the historical context of the country and the region. Then he focuses on the process of acquiring property and attempts to reveal common and different features in the economic development of the courts and farming. The work may present the real situation only to the extent that it allows the historical sources. The main historical source is cartulary of Obazine and documents of Plasy from Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris regni Bohemiae. In addition, the study draws information from various foreign and czech literature.
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The Space of Prayer - Ethnography of a Monastic Community
Horská, Kateřina ; Zandlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
The presented work deals with certain aspects of catholic monastic life; it has been elaborated on the basis of a field research carried out in a female monastic community of an active order in the Czech Republic. In the work, I focus primarily on the topic of prayer and I am trying to answer the following questions: what is the nuns' attitude towards prayer like, which activities we can consider a prayer in the monastic community and what is the influence of these activities on actors in this setting? On theoretical level, the thesis is based especially on the concept of total institutions by E. Goffman and on Pierre Bourdieu's conception of habitus. The text consists of four major parts. In the first, introductory part I describe methodological and ethical issues relevant to my research. In the second part, I concern myself briefly with monastic life in general, its origins and development, and also with stages of monastic life of an individual. The following empirical part based on ethnographic data from my field notes is presented as a description of "a common day" in the monastic community. The last part is theoretical and analytical at the same time; here I deal with the main topic of the thesis. Firstly, I present Goffman's concept of total institutions and I explain how according to this...
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Changes to the interior of the basilica of St. Margaret's monastery at Břevnov
Linart, Petr ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Oulíková, Petra (referee)
Changes to the Interior of the Basilica of St. Margaret's Monastery Břevnov St. Margaret's Church, which is part of Břevnov monastery of Benediktines, was built under the supervision of abbot and builder Otmar Zinke in the beginning of the 18th century. As all the architectonical works, even building of this great dome of radical Baroque came through its development. The earliest changes were done by the architect Pavel Ignác Bayer in the beginning of forming the plans. His successor was Kryštof Dientzenhofer. He changed even the basic masonry and the building as a single nave. According to the archival records there were some changes concerning the iconographical programme. The interior was gradually completed and changed partly too. The main changes concerned the paintings, arranging of the liturgical area and the Baroque organ case reconstruction as well as new organ.
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History, assess the current state and prospects of development of viticulture at the Benedictine Order
Bártová, Zuzana ; Lampíř, Lubomír (advisor)
The subject of this thesis is based on an analysis of documents assessing the evolution, current state and prospects of development of vine growing in the Benedictine order. The first part is devoted to the history and principles of the Rule of St. Benedict, according to the motto "Ora et labora" - Czech "pray and work" together with the basic division of the community with the spiritual order. The following chapter focuses on the development of the monastic winemaking at home and abroad that the problem also affects the Cistercians and their winery in Žernoseky. Part of the topic are also circumstances of expansion vines on the territory of Bohemia and Moravia and the related adaptation varietal charge on domestic vineyards. The last part deals with the origins and history of selected Benedictine monasteries with emphasis on their vineyard management, while also focuses on the past and current situation wineries of Benedictine order at us.
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Analýza vlivu lokace kláštera na současnou míru religiozity v Čechách
ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Tereza
This bachelor's thesis answers the question, if monastery, which is located on territory of municipalities, affects somehow religiosity of inhabitants. First chapter (Introduction) defines object and hypotheses of thesis. Second chapter is given to processing methods of thesis. Third chapter contains the most important literature used in thesis, also definition of concepts and theoretic outline of the problem. Fourth chapter describes evolution of religion and changes in religiosity in Bohemia. Fifth chapter works with statistics and looks for possible influence in chosen municipalities. Sixth chapter summarizes all the knowledge and proves or disproves set hypotheses. Last chapter finishes the thesis. Thesis also contains statistical table, graphs and maps.
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Obnova památky krajinářské architektury
Dvořáková, Jana
This bachelor thesis focuses on an overall solution of a garden architecture sight renewal. The model object is the monastery area in Žďár nad Sázavou. There are going to be monastery particularities and types of their gardens summarized in the theoretical part. Based on studying expert literature and laws and regulations, important historical object reconstruction principles have been found out. The analytical part is focused on the particular field explorations and their consequent evaluation. Another target was to understand properly and interpret well the current state of the whole area. Based on particular analyses solutions for the monastery area, concept solutions were suggested. The last suggestion part is trying to reflect some of the contemporary problems in the area. Therefore such solutions are offered that will improve the historical area of the town and increase its aesthetic and practical properties at the same time. The solution suggestion is supposed to restore the original character and historic value of the place which got lost over the years. The basic idea is to create an up-to-date area which would correspond to the character and value of the place and will become an inseparable part of everyday life of the locals
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