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Court case Catherine Karygk versus Prague New Town
Benďáková, Alena ; Čechura, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Chmelař, Jiří (referee)
Catherine Karygk conducted lawsuits against Prague New Town, which lasted more than twenty years and were related to the problems with the people from Svejpravice. She inherited land in the villages of Svejpravice, Chvaly, Babice and Lhota. However, Svejpravice was a holding of the Prague New Town, which was confirmed by an Imperial Charter by King George of Poděbrady, Vladislav of Jagello and Ferdinand I. Although this village was under the administration of the New Town Council, private persons also owned land there and one of them was Catherine Karygk. She repeatedly filed suits against several people in this village who caused damage to her property. Another problem was the suit for the village of Svejpravice itself as it appears from available documents that the Prague New Town laid claim to a bigger part of the village than was in its holding. The cause of these disputes was the removal of boundary-stones marking the plots of the different owners and the absence of marker stones which would show the location of the removed boundary-stones. Numerous and repeated complaints by Mrs. Catherine show that Prague New Town either did not take much note of them or that their subjects did not respect the decision of the New Town Council and Chamber Court. Most lawsuits were conducted in the 1660's when Mrs....
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Byzantine Princesses in Russia
Benďáková, Alena ; Picková, Dana (advisor) ; Smrž, Pavel (referee)
Ties between Kievan Rus and the Byzantine Empire in the 9th and 10th centuries were mainly of a trade and military nature. The situation had changed however, at the close of the 10th century. Not only had the Kievan Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich adopted Christianity from Constantinople, he had also taken to wife, Anna Porphyrogenita, the Byzantine princess and sister of Basil II Bulgaroktonos. Vladimir's marriage to a princess born to imperial purple signified a great honour for the Rurik dynasty, an honour not achieved even by the emperor Otto I who requested the hand in marriage of the Byzantine purpleborn or Porphyrogenitus for his son Otto II. Anna also brought her craftsmen and priests with her to Russia, they helped christianize the country. The craftsmen taught local builders to build large stone churches and decorate them with mosaics and frescoes. The introduction of christianity also saw the spread of the culture of the written word. Another Byzantine princess in Rus was the mother of Vladimir II Monomakh, of whom we have very little knowledge. There is a legend relating to relics connected to his nick-name which he took from his mother after the emperor Constantine IX. The so called legend of Monomakh relics became important in the period between the 15th and 16th centuries, when the great Moscow...
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Court case Catherine Karygk versus Prague New Town
Benďáková, Alena ; Chmelař, Jiří (referee) ; Čechura, Jaroslav (advisor)
Catherine Karygk conducted lawsuits against Prague New Town, which lasted more than twenty years and were related to the problems with the people from Svejpravice. She inherited land in the villages of Svejpravice, Chvaly, Babice and Lhota. However, Svejpravice was a holding of the Prague New Town, which was confirmed by an Imperial Charter by King George of Poděbrady, Vladislav of Jagello and Ferdinand I. Although this village was under the administration of the New Town Council, private persons also owned land there and one of them was Catherine Karygk. She repeatedly filed suits against several people in this village who caused damage to her property. Another problem was the suit for the village of Svejpravice itself as it appears from available documents that the Prague New Town laid claim to a bigger part of the village than was in its holding. The cause of these disputes was the removal of boundary-stones marking the plots of the different owners and the absence of marker stones which would show the location of the removed boundary-stones. Numerous and repeated complaints by Mrs. Catherine show that Prague New Town either did not take much note of them or that their subjects did not respect the decision of the New Town Council and Chamber Court. Most lawsuits were conducted in the 1660's when Mrs....
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