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The views of Daniel Adam of Veleslavín on Czechs and foreigners
Černá, Alena M.
The paper is devoted to the views of Daniel Adam of Veleslavín (1546–1599) on the Czechs and foreigners with whom the Czech lands are in contact or who they know from the available literature. These are mainly Germans, Italians and Poles, but attention is also paid to peoples who pose a real or potential threat to the Czech lands (Turks and Russians). Veleslavín judges that the old Czechs possessed good qualities (bravery, faith in God, reliability, respect for order and laws), but that they lost these qualities through contact with foreign nations. They concentrate more on secular pleasures and slacken their concern for the nation and the homeland. The material base for the paper was the Czech written prefaces to the works that Veleslavín prepared for publication in 1578–1599.
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Ivan Borkovský. An archaeologist between legends, two world wars and two totalitarian regimes
Maříková-Kubková, Jana ; Adámek, František
Archaeologist Ivan Borkovský led the technical and later professional research of Prague Castle for more than forty years, in addition to dozens of other sites. He is one of the most prominent personalities of Czechoslovak and Czech archaeology of the Middle Ages. He was a colleague and teacher of a number of prominent archaeologists, historians and architects. Yet there are unknown moments in his personal life and in his fate in the tense periods of the 20th century. In the memoirs of his students and colleagues, there are stories that have become legendary in the nearly fifty years since his death. But most of them are not based on truth. The question is whether Ivan Borkovský himself gave rise to these stories or whether they were written later and what role the personality of the narrator played in them. The presented text focuses on these twists and turns in his life and attempts to confirm or refute the oft-repeated clichés through archival research. Last but not least, the thesis aims to pave the way for a more comprehensive treatment of his scholarly legacy, which will not be possible without an understanding of the pitfalls that accompanied his life.
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Salerno verses published by Daniel Adam of Veleslavín
Černá, Alena M.
The article is devoted to a medical didactic poem on the preservation of health Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, which is known as Salerno verses, published by Daniel Adam of Veleslavín in 1587. The original Latin verses were translated into national languages from the Middle Ages. We deal with the question of whether one of the Czech translations was prepared by Daniel Adam of Veleslavín and what is the relation of the translation from 1587 to the older translation from 1584. We lay special attention to the characteristics of the Czech language of Veleslavín's edition.
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