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The Lost Epitaph and Tombstone of Václav Hájek of Libočany
Mezihoráková, Klára
Beginning in the 17th century, the numerous authors of documents about Prague referred to the grave of Václav Hájek of Libočany (the Catholic priest and author of the famous Czech Chronicle, † 1553) with a tombstone and epitaph being located in the Church of Saint Anne at the Convent of Dominican Nuns in the Old Town in Prague. Despite this fact, both monuments disappeared without a trace during the 19th century. While the only information about the tombstone is that it was made of ‘yellow marble’ the descriptions of the epitaph have survived as well as two depictions from the later editions of the Czech Chronicle from 1718 and 1761. In spite of the incomplete documentation, the epitaph presents the best-identified part of the furnishings of the Convent of Saint Anne in Prague. This article points to the surprising fact, that these monuments were not lost in auctions after the cancellation of the monastery in 1782, as one would have expected, but probably nearly a hundred years later.
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Comparison of Beckovskýʼs Poselkyně starých příběhů českých with Its Source, Hájekʼs Kronika česká
Hanzelková, Eva ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (advisor) ; Martínek, František (referee)
The work focuses on the linguistic and graphical comparison of Poselkyně starých příběhův českých by Jan František Beckovský and its source, Kronika česká by Václav Hájek z Libočan. The aim was to confirm or disprove the still prevalent opinion that Poselkyně is only a transcription of Hájkova kronika without any changes. The first part of the work is dedicated to the lives of the two authors, to their work and also to the language and the printed texts' graphics of their time periods. In the second part of the work, several linguistic and graphical phenomena are gathered from chosen excerpts from both chronicles and compared, results are summarized with the help of tables.
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Hand-down narration and the Czech Chronicle by Václav Hájek z Libočan
Česká, Jana ; Kubišta, Albert (advisor) ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (referee)
The thesis defines on the base of analysis The Czech Chronicle of Václav Hájek from Libočany and it's comparison with five selected sources (Kosmas' Kronika česká, The work of so called Follower's of Kosmas, The Chronicle of so called Dalimil, The Zbraslavská Chronicle and Eneas' Silvio's Historia Bohemica) the term "narace" (derived from narration), which is introduced for enclosed epic storyline found in Hájek's work. It finds relation amongst "narace", rhetoric tradition and local historiography and this way tries to place The Czech Chronicle back to the understanding of development of national literature, from where it was excluded by positivistic historians on the end of 18t h and during 19t h century. [Author's abstract]
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The textual relationship between the chronicle written by Wenceslas Hájek from Libočany and a legend about St. Wenceslas written by Aegidius a S. Joanne Baptista
NEUWIRTHOVÁ, Kateřina
The subject of the bachelor thesis is a legend about St. Wenceslas written in Czech by Aegidius a St. Joanne Baptista called Věnec blahoslavenému a věčně oslavovanému knížeti českému, mučedníku božímu, druhému Abelovi, svatému Václavovi, z dvou a třicíti růží jeho svatého narození, života, smrti (A Wreath for Blessed and Forever Celebrated Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia, God´s Martyr and Second Abel Made from Thirty Two Roses of His Saint Birth, Life, Death). This bachelor thesis introduces the author and his piece and it also focuses on Aegidius´s sources that he used to write his legend. Aegidius a St. Joanne Baptista claimed that his main source was Kronika česká (Czech Chronicle) from 1541 by Wenceslas Hájek from Libočany. This bachelor thesis verifies Aegidius´s claim and tries to find ways how he worked with the source.
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Historické prózy Sofie Podlipské
VIKTURNOVÁ, Jitka
The first part of the bachelor thesis is dedicated to the biography, public life and literary work of Sofie Podlipská. The second part introduces an analysis of the work Horymír Neumětelský. The main focus of the first part is Podlipská?s life, her activities in women's organizations and the role she played in the education of women. The thesis also presents the literary lifework that consists of not only short stories, novels, novellas, but also lectures, puppet plays and translations. A chapter devoted to the realism, realistic novel and the development of the cultural life in the ?60s is also included as well as a chapter about the influence of Podlipská on other authors. In the second part the short story Horymír Neumětelský, which elaborates the motive known from Ancient Bohemian Legends (Staré pověsti české), is analysed.
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Hájek’s Chronicle and Old Czech Annals
Černá, Alena M.
According to the specialist literature, the many sources behind Hájek’s Czech Chronicle include chronicles from a set entitled Old Czech Annals, but it has never been precisely determined which of the more than thirty surviving manuscripts are involved. Based on a sample of sixteen reports on events during the Hussite wars appearing in Hájek’s Chronicle and in the Old Czech Annals, we have attempted to establish the source text. We have not found the direct source, but we find most (thirteen) of the identical reports in text R, known as Vratislavský, written between 1515 and 1535. identification of the source text was complicated by the possibility that it had not actually been preserved or that Václav Hájek used more than one text from the Old Czech Annals in his work. the work was also influenced by the fact that Hájek was an unusually creative individual who can be presumed to have not accepted the sources automatically, but to have adapted and recreated their language and contents.
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Hájek's depiction of the Hussite era
Čornej, Petr
The detailed analysis of parts in which Václav Hájek of Libočany in his Czech Chronicle (1541) described the Hussite era shows that the Catholic author did not have the strict antihussite attitude. He fully respected the political and religious organization of the Czech state formed in the years of Hussite revolution.
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Hájek as linguistic authority
Koupil, Ondřej
This study deals with the reception of Hájek’s Czech Chronicle as a text that acted as a linguistic authority, amodel that long stood in second place behind the Bible in the hierarchy of prestige Czech texts. Probes extending from the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st century chart the gradual retreat of Hájek’s text from this position to that of a venerable linguistic heirloom. Hájek’s linguistic authority indeed waned with time, just like his historical authority. the relations between Hájek’s individual spheres of authority are diagramatically set out in Section 7. Section 8 raises more general questions on the importance of period linguistic authorities for handling and periodicizing linguistic and literary history, appealing for an examination of the linguistic features of Czech Chronicle, precisely because it was amuch-read and esteemed czech text for many centuries, practically and theoretically considered to be an important linguistic model.
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Versions of the legend about Oldřich and Božena in Czech chronicles
STEJSKALOVÁ, Jana
The objective of the thesis is to compare the various forms of rumors about Oldřich and Božena in selected Czech chronicles. The primary focus is the transformation of the legend in the Kosmas Chronicle, the so-called Dalimil Chronicle, and the popular Czech Chronicle of Václav Hájek of Libočany. We will also try to further highlight certain themes in relation to the given community and the culturally historical environment. Finally, we will compare the individual data from the rumors with documented historical facts, and we will also highlight speculations that arose around the rumors.
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