|
|
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,...
|
|
|
Imperator and gubernator. Overlap of functions of two prime ministers from the perspective of constitutional law, comparative politics and theoretical "Staatswissenschaft"
Vanča, Matouš ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
Author Matouš Vanča Title Imperator and Gubernator. Overlap of Functions of Two Prime Ministers from the Perspective of Constitutional Law, Comparative Politics and Theoretical 'Staatswissenschaft' Abstract This thesis deals with the so-called 'problem of the two PMs', i.e. situation during the alternation of governments in the Czech Republic when the two Prime Ministers coexist shortly at the same time. This specific situation is a potential source of extensive conflict over the authority to exercise the constitutional powers of the Prime Minister. In the first chapter the whole issue is analyzed from the historical point of view-it could be regarded as a relatively new matter of the current Czech constitution, however, even in the older Czechoslovak constitutional tradition, problems of a similar type can be found that have not yet been given more attention. The second chapter presents the views of constitutional lawyers on the whole topic-they are divided into three basic hypotheses, "denialism hypothesis", "one-hour hypothesis" and "Benelux hypothesis". In the third chapter there is a comprehensive comparison within the European Union-the mechanisms of government alternation in particular European constitutions are analyzed, their strengths and weaknesses are discussed and the states are categorized...
|
|
|
Religious Legitimisation of the Political Power in Rome in the Point of View of the Ancient Historiographers
Vanča, Matouš ; Antalík, Dalibor (advisor) ; Kozák, Jan (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on techniques used by the politicians of ancient Rome for religious legitimisation of their political power and their status. Its aim is to collect evidence of different forms of this phenomenon which can be found in the works of ancient historians. The initial definition of the topic and field of research, i.e. relations between religious and political spheres in ancient Rome, is followed by a short characteristic of sources (Greek and Roman historiographers and their works). Next three casuistical chapters analyse evidences of particular forms of religious legitimisation of political power. First of these chapters concentrates on the use of religion in political rhetoric; the second and longest one deals with religious prosecution and political blasphemy which can be considered as two of the most interesting phenomena in this topic; the third chapter contains specific examples of how religion was used in the long-term public presentation of concrete political personalities. Before proceeding to the last chapter, there is a short description of the change of situation at the beginning of principate, when old forms of religious legitimisation disappeared and were replaced by different ones. Last chapter focuses on the possibilities of analysis in the field of...
|
|
|
Bad King Wenceslas? Deposition of the "Idle King" in the Context of Political and Legal Thought of the Late Middle Ages
Vanča, Matouš ; Bobková, Lenka (advisor) ; Žůrek, Václav (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on the deposition of the king Wenceslas (1361-1419) from the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. The dethronement act was realised in August 1400 by four Rhenish electors (Count Palatine and archbishops of Mainz, Cologne and Trier) after years- long preparations. The first chapter briefly questions the possibility of king's deposition in medieval political thought. The second chapter describes long political fights in the Holy Roman Empire before 1400 and highlights the most important events which finally led to the king's deposition, such as the fight for the controll over the archbishopric of Mainz. The third chapter analyses the legal dimension of the dethronement act and puts forward possible interpretation of its role in the constitutional history of the Holy Roman Empire. The elector's activity can be understood as a part of long-term growth of political power of the electoral college, as it was codified in the Golden Bull of Charles IV.
|
|
|
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,...
|
guest ::
RSS feed.