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The king and the presentation of king majesty in Arthurian legends
Mádlová, Karolína ; Drška, Václav (advisor) ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee)
(in English): This thesis is dedicated to the medieval Arthurian legends and their authors, especially to Gildas, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas Malory. On the basis of their works is here reconstructed presentation of the king and his majesty, the phenomenon of chivalry and the role of women at the court and off the court. There is also considered the role of Christianity and paganism in legends and specific aspects related to both religions, such as Glastonbury Abbey, Holy Grail, Avalon, Merlin and many others.
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Life and pontificate of Gregory the Great
Kaška, Pavel ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Drška, Václav (referee)
Annotation: This masters thesis deals with prominent figure of the Pope Gregory the Great (540-604), whose life and especially pontificate became a model for many of his successors as well as for the overall direction of the Roman Church. Despite the indisputable authority of the Pope there is no full consensus about its meaning or some of its steps. The aim of this work is as faithful as possible to capture his life, the concept of the Church and political activity. The work will not appreciation of Gregory's theological concept, but rather to capture its political and organizational-legal approaches to fulfilling idea of the power of the papacy. The work will be primarily based on sources which Gregory himself left behind, which will primarily reflected his correspondence. They will use other historical sources as well as secondary literature. A method of processing work will consist in the logical analysis of the sources, comparison with literature secondary and subsequent summary and evaluation.
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Expansion of arianism in early medieval Europe
Jungmannová, Barbora ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Picková, Dana (referee)
(in English): The thesis deals with the history of arianism. It emphasizes the historical and theology-philosohical conext of arianism, which is essential for understanding the whole topic and especially for understanding the development of the early Christians' faith. It outlines how the early Christians perceived their faith, which is important in order to grasp the basic principles and understanding of early beliefs also outlines the context of late antique philosophy that influenced the theological-philosophical framework of orthodoxy and arianism itself. The text of the thesis focuses on the political situation in Europe at the end of antiquity, the rise of arianism in the first half of the fourth century and its dispute with orthodoxy, whose dogma has been defined during the council of Constantinople (381). Already before the beginning of second council in Constantinople arianism started to spread through the barbarian tribes, the Goths, Vandals and Burgundians to the West, where it was incorporated into the policy of tribal States. Thanks to these tribes arianism survived in the West until the sixth century. The thesis brings incentive for further research of Arianism in the context of religious and political relations in the Western and Eastern parts of the Roman Empire in the early Middle Ages.
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First Baron War and Louis VIII as the Kinf of England (1215-1217). A view of sources.
Malý, Jan ; Drška, Václav (advisor) ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee)
In 1215, king of England John the Lackland was forced to seal a document known as Magna Carta. It was a simple legal procedure. Nevertheless it was the beginning of conflict between royal power and english nobility, commonly known as first baron's war. It lasted from 1215 to 1217 and it culminated by the invasion of french crown prince Louis to England when english nobility offered him the crown. After the death of king John in autumn 1216, the original revolt, inspired mostly by personal hate against the ruler changed into the effort of prince Louis to achieve the title of English king. Most of original memebers of the oposition quickly switched sides and joined John's little son Henry (king Henry III) and Louis then had only the support of few leaders of rebelion. After a series of defeats in the first half of 1217, capetian prince was forced to abandon his goals and to retreat from the Isles. This work also follows the view of selected contemporary narrative sources, mainly to the activity of french prince in England and his attitude to the uprising.
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Conquest of Constantinople 1204 and 1453
Hartl, Josef ; Picková, Dana (advisor) ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee)
The goal of this thesis is the comparison of the Latin conquest of Constantinople by the troops of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Both of these milestones in the history of the Byzantine Empire meant a huge disaster and its aftermath had a profound impact on all structures of Byzantine society. Constantinople - political, spiritual and cultural center of Byzantium - thanks to its monumental system of its walls resisted many attempts to its conquer and this fact must necessarily set the enquiry of why in these two cases, the city defense failed. In this work I tried to dismantle both of falls in the widespread context of comparison and is not only a military and strategic point of view, where the differences between these events is evident. The Crusaders, which in 1204 conquered Constantinople, in any case could not be measured with a huge and highly disciplined army of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. I focused on theme besiegers and their behavior to Romans. With well-known stereotype that crusaders meant to Constantinople greater disaster than the Ottoman Turks, one could argue. Recent findings of current historians refutes this general opinion and refer primarily to the fact that the Crusaders did not destroyed Byzantium, while successful attack Mehmed II. of...
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The Kingdom of Acre
Janoš, Ondřej ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Drška, Václav (referee)
The main topic of the thesis is basic problems of the Kingdom of Acre from 1187 to 1291. The first part briefly outlines the situation in Palestine during the First crusade, founding of Kingdom of Jerusalem, the increase of its importance and prestige in the political situation of the Middle East. Chapter ends with a fatal battle of Hattin. The second chapter, which is the main part of the whole work, is dedicated to restoring the kingdom during the Third crusade, internal struggles between the political factions , the resistance of the nobility against the centralized royal power, pursue of keeping the occupied territories and the problems that led to the downfall of the Kingdom by the conquest of the capital city of Acre in 1291. In this chapter I also want to present historical figures which have the historical influence on development of the Holy Land. Keywords Crusade, the kingdom, the nobility, Acre, Jerusalem, Antioch, Byzantine Empire, Muslims, Christians
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Course, Causes and Consequences of non-uniform electoral Votings in the Holy Roman Empire in the High Middle Ages (1198, 1257, 1314)
Vanča, Matouš ; Drška, Václav (advisor) ; Suchánek, Drahomír (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to compare three cases of double elections, which happened in the Holy Roman Empire in the High Middle Ages. The elections in question are: the 1198 election (when Philip, the Duke of Swabia, and Otto of Brunswick were elected), the election of 1257 (when Richard of Cornwall and Alfons X, the King of Castile, were elected) and the 1314 election (when Louis IV, the Duke of Upper Bavaria, and Frederick the Handsome, the Duke of Austria, were elected). Each of these elections is represented by a case study, which analyses its course, its political background, its immediate causes and other circumstances, and which also describes its specific consequences. At the end of this thesis, there is a comparative study, which points out similarities and differences between these three cases and thus traces a fundamental advancement of the Holy Roman Empire's constitutional arrangement and its monarchs election (primarily, the progress from the elections by a wide group of the Princes of the Empire to the elections by a small ensamble of seven electors); such progress subsequently led to the issue of the Golden Bull of Charles IV. This thesis uses period sources, whether it is diplomatic documents directly connected with royal elections or works of chroniclers and annalists,...
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Girolamo Savonarola - the man at the turn of the ages
Banďouch, Pavel ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Picková, Dana (referee)
The presented thesis deals with issues related to the life and activities of Girolamo Savonarola. Main attention is paid to the second half of the 15th century. However, these times are not perceived and considered as a closed period of time, but in the context of the historical development of individual themes. Particular attention is paid mainly to the political situation in Florence, and subsequently in Italy, since the so-called peace in Lodi up to the coronation of Charles V. in Bologna; to the creation of papal monarchy after the Council of Constance; to the construction of the Papal State; to the reform of the Order of Preachers and to the phenomenon of prophecy in Renaissance. The key aim is to demonstrate that, despite the original elements in Savonarola's thinking and his opinions, there can be traced certain continuity with both preceding and upcoming processes and fates to the main events of his tenure and his deeds. Keywords Savonarola, renaissance, prophecy, Papal state
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The cathar heresy in southern France
Žďárská, Zuzana ; Suchánek, Drahomír (advisor) ; Drška, Václav (referee)
The cathar heresy in southern France Abstract: This master's degree work deals the history of the cathar heresy in the area of southern France from the mid-12th century to the 1st third of the 14th century. It supplies the minute description of the historic events, that influenced the development of the cathar church and trace the changes in the political, religious and social sphere that accompanied it. The work sketches out the base of the cathar doctrine along with the structures of the cathar ecclesiastic hierarchy. On the base of the accessible sources and literature, it takes aim in charting the fates of the cathar heresy from the point where it first emerges in the historical sources, through the period of its development in the space of Occitania and the crusade against cathars, as far as its slow destruction during the activity of the papal inquisition. The work tries to handle the social and political phenomena, which partook in the development of the heresy and describe the change they undertook in the era of its persecution. This works brings new impulse for the study of the issue of the history of the cathar heresy and its relation with other heretical groups into the Czech academic sphere. Key words: cathars, heresy, Middle Ages, history of France, crusade, inquisition
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