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Ottoman danger in Central Europe at the beginning of Early Modern period - Working text for teaching history at grammar school
MÁSÍLKO, Martin
The diploma thesis deals with Ottoman invasions into Central Europe in the Pre-White Mountain period, bounded by the years 1526 (Battle of Mohács) and 1606 (the end of the 15-year war). The main focus is on the war operations in the Hungarian battlefields and the associated expeditions from the Habsburg constitution. The situation was not only about the warriors who experienced the battlefield, but also the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Bohemia, especially the Margraviate of Moravian. The representatives of the two groups experienced, until then, an unknown situation and had to somehow behave and react to it. The professional interpretation is continuously followed by the didactic part intended for secondary school teachers, which transforms the theme into a school substance. In conclusion, there is also a sample educational edition concerning about a dozen sources corresponding to the structure of the work.
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An Animal on the Battlefield of First World War: Horses and Transport Animals
Hunčovská, Barbora ; Šedivý, Ivan (advisor) ; Kopeček, Michal (referee)
The aim of this thesis is in part to fill the gap that exists in the Czech historiography regarding the use of horses and other transport animals in the First World War. It follows the experience of draught, pack and mounted animals in this war, from its very beginnings to the end, and tries to answer these questions: how were these animals used, what did they have to go through and encounter on the battlefield and what care they were provided. This thesis combines the use of historical sources of both administrative and personal nature with the knowledge and observations gained from the field of horse ethology. It also addresses in detail the relationship between fighting men and their horses and tries to paint the picture of the role of war horses in the representation and memory of the First World War.
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The disaster of Netolice. Influence of battle at Záblatí on everyday life in the domain
ČÍŽEK, Josef
Submitted work aims to capture the changes in lives of ordinary people in the Netolice domain over the years 1618-1620. Using personal correspondence and sources of registration nature it is documented how the war conflicts influenced the population of South Bohemia during the early phase of the Thirty Years War. The aim of the study is the reconstruction of war events in the period from the beginning of the Estates Uprising till the battle at Záblatí. Attention is also paid to changes in the everyday life of villagers living in the South Bohemian battlefield. Those occurred primarily through changes in rustic farms and town households. The everydayness of inhabitants transformed also through social, economic and property changes. Changes are documented by way of comparing the pre-war situation with the post-war environment in which the then man tried to live and survive. The entire work is summarized in the conclusion, which recapitulates discovered findings and provides additional options for further research.
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War experience in everyday life of the south Bohemian lower noblemen in the period of the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th century
KOREŠ, František
The author of the diploma thesis endeavoured, with the help of historic-anthropological methods, to depict a variety of forms of the war experience of the south Bohemian aristocracy in the period before the Battle of White Mountain. The subject of his interest focused on the fates of men and women of noble origin, on the background of three key military events of the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th century. Two expeditions of the Bohemian troops against the Turks in 1566 and 1594, and the invasion of Bohemia by the Passau army in 1611 had a very strong impact on the way south Bohemian knights thought, behaved and acted. Personal correspondence of selected aristocratic families served as the heuristic starting point in the search for the answer to the question which ways an aristocrat chose to defend values tested by centuries and to enforce his own or his family?s interests. The objective of the entire research was to amplify the knowledge about the history of lower aristocracy, by stressing the unique role of a historical participant in war. Treating the topic of war experience gave rise to a contribution on the borderline between the political, military, social and cultural areas of history of the early Modern Age.
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