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Jarmila Hašková - epoch, life, work
Blehová, Markéta ; Hnilica, Jiří (advisor) ; Vlnas, Vít (referee)
This thesis focuses on the personality of a writer and humorist Jarmila Hašková. It deals with a biographical summary of the writer's life and author's bibliography overview. The thesis is divided into two main chapters, the first deals with the author's life and the second dedicates to the author's creation. The first chapter describes the author's childhood spent in a large family, but it was accompanied by frequent health problems, furthermore, a relatively dramatical relationship with a writer Jaroslav Hašek and a period of author's life after separation, when Hašková came with her son Richard back to her parents. She gained not only a permanent job but also she took up a literary activity completely. The second chapter deals with the author's work in detail, initially with the work's beginnings, which relate to poetry. After that, it deals with prosaic writings in which lied centre of her creations and, ultimately, other arts sectors such as film and radio Hašková devoted. Jarmila Hašková wrote humoristic short stories primarily about daily life and interpersonal relations. The thesis gives an overview of the contemporary reception of Jarmila Hašková's prosaic works. The work is based on primary sources, mainly the sources place in the Museum of Czech Literature Literary Archive in the fond of...
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Women in the Recatholization of the Czech Lands
Jiřincová, Barbora ; Vlnas, Vít (advisor) ; Čornejová, Ivana (referee) ; Knoz, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis addresses the topic of women in the process of the recatholization of Bohemia and focuses mainly on the first half of the 17th century. The author investigated if and how much the experience of women differed from that of men. More than the legislation and newly created norms the application of these directions enlightens the topic of women. Rich material connected to the activity of the recatholization commission and other authorities devoted to the conversion of Czech population was used. Sources of statistical character were used for evaluation of the results of the process. Because of their extent, regional restriction had to be made - we focused on Boleslavsko. In the focus of the thesis were mainly townswomen and lower nobility. One of the most important findings is the fact that the authorities saw women as important as men in the process. Although specific, seemingly more moderate, means for coercion were used in women's case. This flexibility is typical for the Catholic church's approach to women and we are in concord with other researchers, mostly from abroad. The findings also contribute to our knowledge of the process of the recatholization of the Czech lands. KEY WORDS Recatholization, Catholic reformation, women's history, gender history, early modern ages, counter-reformation.
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Iron cross and Czechoslovakia
Hervíř, Pavel ; Vlnas, Vít (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
The presented diploma project places emphasis on introducing the Order of the Knight Cross in context of the Czech history of the half of the twentieth century. This order took its place in the Czech history not as a symbol of liberating wars, which it was in time of its birth, but as an implement of totalitarian regime. Apart from the description of the development of the order itself, this project aims at presenting the holders of the Knight Cross as the highest level of the Iron Cross which was given to soldiers of German defence power of Czechoslovak origin during the second world war. This project also includes short personal stories of these veteran soldiers of " Czechoslovak " origin enhanced with a lot of personal information. The integral part of this dissertation is also the explanation of importance of symbol of the Iron Cross and its position in the society of the time of the Third Reich. There is also shown its coherent story on which it is possible to illustrate its own transformation under the terms of historical development. The dissertation is divided into several parts. The introductory part covers a brief history of the Order of the Iron Cross from its birth to the end of the second world war. The next chapter deals with the birth and the importance of the Knight Cross and its...
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"The stone guardian of a glorious past" The changes in the perception of the Karlštejn Castle by the Czechs and the Germans in Bohemia during the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries
Venclík, David ; Vlnas, Vít (advisor) ; Hojda, Zdeněk (referee) ; Petrasová, Taťána (referee)
In the thesis I have tried to capture the shifts in the perception of the Karlštejn Castle in the historical memory of the Czech and German society in a wider political-cultural context. The Czech nationalists saw the castle as a symbol of the Czech nation's fate, because the nation lived through the time of its foremost glory during the reign of Emperor Charles IV. But their symbol was mostly neglected and forgotten in their time. Amongst the Germans, the romantic idea of the Karlštejn Castle having been built according to a mythical castle known from the Holy Grail legends was widespread. The building, then in decay, was thoroughly reconstructed between the 1880s - 1890s. The reconstruction was done by the renowned architects of that time, Friedrich Schmidt and Josef Mocker. The Czech political representation promoted the renovation of the Karlštejn Castle in connection with their State-law demands, which were supposed to culminate in the reconstruction of this medieval castle and the royal coronation of the Austrian emperor with the Crown of St. Wenceslas. The medieval building was wrongly said to have been the original place where the crown jewels had been kept. In the historical memory of the German society, the Karlštejn Castle remained the remembrance of the glory of the Holy Roman Empire...
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