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Knight Christoph of Týn. Warrior and Diplomat of the Late Middle Age
Boukal, Jan ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Bláhová, Marie (referee)
Theme of the bachelor work is the life of Christoph of Týn (in German Christoph von Thein, 1453 - after 1517), who was a knight living in the formerly Loket region (today Karlovy Vary region, Sokolov district). Knight Christoph of Týn was a significant diplomat, soldier and writer, who wrote his own arresting autobiography. A target of this work are critical analysis of this literary work and comparations with the other medieval sources, which are observing the same events in the same time and his live is implanting in the broker context. Knight's autobiography is also a part of his own urbarium, which helps us to the cognition of his property and economical working of his domain Starý Hrozňatov (Alt-Kiensberg). Parts of this work are too excursions about his family, issue of autobiography in the middle-ages, kinghood in the Loket region and war between Holy roman emperor Frederic III. and Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus. Key words: Christoph of Týn - 15. - 16. century - Týn - Hrozňatov - Loket region - Egerland - Carniolia - autobiography - urbarium
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