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Epigraphica & Sepulcralia 11. Forum of epigraphical and sepulchral studies. The Proceedings of the 18th and 19th International Sessions on the Issue of Sepulchral monuments, Prague on 6-7 November 2019 and remotedly on 12-13 November 2020
Roháček, Jiří
The proceedings of the 18th and 19th international sessions on the issue of sepulchral monuments, which took place in Prague on 6 – 7 November 2019 and online on Zoom (due to the coronavirus epidemic) 12 – 13 November 2020. These regular conferences, organized since 2000 by the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, are focused on sepulchral monuments as material artefacts of sepulchral culture and as works of art in the traditional sense of the word, with a factual or methodological relation to the Central European issues. However, they do not avoid themes, that more widely explain the context, in which these monuments were created and were functionally applied. The emphasis is placed on the nature of interdisciplinary expert meetings. Since the 15th session in 2016, however, it has also started to take note of Jewish sepulchral monuments and, given the topicality of the topic, also Muslim ones, but still with a close connection to Central European issues. Through their focus and periodicity, they are unique in a pan-European context. The series Epigraphica & Sepulcralia has been the publication forum of these sessions since 2005. The conference proceedings bring a total of twenty contributions divided into unequal parts, one of which is devoted to Christian sepulchral monuments and the other to Jewish sepulchral monuments. In addition to Czech and Moravian themes, Slovak, Polish and Hungarian themes traditionally have a significant share.
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Celtic mercenaries in the military services of the medditerranean states and their homecoming to the countries of the Middle Europe
Šedo, Ondrej ; Knápek, R.
Activities of the Celtic mercenaries in the Mediterranean environment are surprisingly often mentioned by the ancient writers. They used to appear in services for authorities there, in the Near East, “Magna Graecia” and other parts of southern Europe and also in Egypt or Carthage. They completed armies of the states fighting each other or against the Roman republic when they joined the fighting for domination in this area, and the last troops were still in service during the last decades before the change of the era. The findings discovered during the archaeological research, mainly coins that had been produced in the Mediterranean area and which appear in the Middle Europe (Roseldorf, Němčice nad Hanou, Nowa Cerekwia) led to a hypothesis that some of the mercenaries returned to these places after finishing their service. The article comes up with arguments enabling a support for such hypotheses.
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The Belt and Road - Is China moving towards the centre of international trade? Assessment of impact on Balkans and Central Europe using network and gravity analysis
Reinštein, Jakub ; Semerák, Vilém (advisor) ; Komárek, Luboš (referee)
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a potentially world-changing Chinese economic and geopolitical strategy. In this thesis Gravity Model of Trade (GMT) and Network analysis are employed to assess the relative position of China in the International Trade Network (ITN), the overall impact of BRI, and its effect on countries in Central Eastern Europe and Western Balkans grouped in 17+1 mechanism. The results from Network analysis indicate that since the 1990s China is gradually moving towards the center of ITN. Subnetwork of BRI countries also exhibits higher cohesion and resilience to external shocks than ITN. GMT identified BRI as a significant and positive factor influencing exports, however in case of 17+1 mechanism countries the results are not robust. GMT was also successfully experimentally augmented with Network analysis variables demonstrating its possible enhancements and showing the path for further research. JEL Classification C23, C51, E27, F14 Keywords Gravity Model of Trade, Network Analysis, Belt and Road Initiative, 17+1 Mechanism Title The Belt and Road - Is China moving towards the center of international trade? Assessment of impact on Balkans and Central Europe using network and gravity analysis
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Habitat selection in post-breeding temperate forest birds
THRIKKADEERI, Karthik
Habitat selection of forest birds in Branišovský les, České Budějovice, Czech Republic was studied by observing habitat preferences in the non-breeding season and exploring possible shifts in preferences due to the changing seasons. Patterns of habitat selection were analysed at multiple levels: considering all bird species as well as comparing between two feeding guilds. Preferences were also studied by specifically monitoring predation rates by birds on artificial caterpillars and exploring changes with habitat and season.
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Vulnerable benthic water bug species \kur{Aphelocheirus aestivalis }(Fabricius, 1794) (Heteroptera: Aphelocheiridae): distribution and habitat preference in the Czech-Austrian border area of the Lužnice river basin
BAUER, Martin
The occurence, ditribution, habitat preference of benthic water bug Aphelocheirus aestivalis, and structure of macroinvertebrate benthic communities were studied in the upper Lužnice River basin. A. aestivalis is distributed only in a lower part of the upper Lužnice river basin. It inhabites stony biotopes of Dračice river (= Reissbach in the Austrian side), Lužnice river downstream from Suchdol nad Lužnicí, Old part of Lužnice river, Nová řeka river, and Nežárka river. This species occurs only in the rocky and sandy bottom where current speds and dissolved oxygen are both high in the investigated area. Prefered microhabitats are represented by sand and coarse gravel, that overline the larger boulders, rocks, dead woods or rootlets of trees growing in banks and sandy places with submerged plants. Though the Lužnice river has numerous sites of character of prefered habitats and microhabitats also upstream from Suchdol nad Lužnicí, any specimens of A. aestivalis were never found upstream from this small city and in the Koštěnický potok brook (mouth of this right side tributary into Lužnice river is located dovnstream from Suchdol nad Lužnicí). The macroinvertebrate benthic communities in the sites with occurence of A. aestivalis include larvae of following species of water insects: Cloeön dipterum, Baetis vernus, Ephemera danica, Ephemerella ignita, Heptagenia sulphurea (Ephemeroptera); Isoperla cf. rivulorum, Leuctra cf. albida (Plecoptera); Hydropsyche pellucida or incognita, H. angustipennis, Limnephilus sp., Molanna angustata, Polycentropus flavomaculatus, Potamophylax sp. (Trichoptera). Dominant and most abundant insects were Hydropsyche larvae. It is possible to suppose that the larvae of Baetis, Ephemerella (Ephemeroptera) and Hydropsyche (Trichoptera) larvae are prefered prey of A. aestivalis in the investigated area. The Lužnice river is characteristic by often floods including the destructive ones. Chemical parameters of water change espec
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Grants as a foreign policy instrument to promote democratic values in Central Europe: The case of EEA and Norway Grants
Harvik-Wright, Eira Cornelia ; Young, Mitchell (advisor) ; Benáček, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis looks at how a nation outside the EU, but inside EFTA, reacts to the illiberal changes and democratic backlashes in Poland and Hungary. To do so, it has looked at how particularly Norway positions itself in response to the said developments. The work undergone in this paper aims at contributing to the very scarcely covered topic of EEA and Norway Grants, which until this day continues to receive very little attention academically. The paper's research question is "How does Norway, through the EEA and Norway Grants, attempt to promote liberal democratic values in Central Europe?" To find evidence of how Norway aims at promoting liberal democratic values abroad, case studies on the EEA and Norway Grants in Poland and Hungary have been conducted. These two were chosen for several reasons but mainly summarised due to being objects of harsh critique both by the EU and by EFTA. Data and information were largely collected through a qualitative literature review of official reports and articles, and through talks with respective advisors. This thesis finds that Norway is attempting to promote liberal democratic values in Central Europe and that negotiations and signed agreements between Norway and Poland and Hungary serve more as an effective foreign policy tool to promote the liberal...
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Double monasteries of Poor Clares and Friars Minor in the area of Central Europe in 13th century. Typology of architecture, foundation of royal princesses and contemporary context on the examples of monasteries, especially in Prague and Wroclaw.
Zelenková, Gabriela ; Kolářová Takácsová, Kornélia (advisor) ; Jarošová, Markéta (referee)
Double monasteries of Poor Clares and Friars Minor in the area of Central Europe in 13th century. Typology of architecture, foundation of royal princesses and contemporary context on the examples of monasteries, especially in Prague and Wroclaw. The topic of my bachelor thesis is a comparison of the typology of architecture of double monasteries of Poor Clares and Friars minor. The specifics of the Convent of the Sisters of the Poor Clares had to adapt to the strict order and liturgical regulations of the order, which was reflected in building architecture according to a certain pattern, manifested in the form of monastic churches including emporium, cloister and common areas, separated from contact with the outside world. However, this did not prevent the increasing of the education of the sisters and the maintenance of ties between the individual monasteries. Friars minor provided spiritual guidance for the sisters. Franciscans originated in the 13th century as an order that responds to the development of medieval cities and the wide social layers of inhabitants, which is reflected in the location of monasteries near rivers and walls (hospital function, water availability). In the Central European region, in response to the new ecclesiastical order, the then desire to return to following the...
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Epigraphica & Sepulcralia 10. Forum of epigraphical and sepulchral studies
Roháček, Jiří
The proceedings of the 17th international session on the issue of sepulchral monuments, which took place in Prague on 24 October - 26 October 2018. It contains eighteen papers in total (in Czech, English and Slovak), which deal directly or contextually with sepulchral monuments from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Besides, the territorially Bohemian and Moravian issue as well as the Slovak and Polish issues have a significant share. The proceedings are divided in to three parts, in terms of the religious context of the discussed themes - hence into parts devoted to Christian, Jewish and finally supplemental, but still in the Central European milieu, Islamic sepulchral monuments.
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