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Old Town Square in Prague as a place of European memory. From baroque to the present
Bronsema, Liesbeth ; Altová, Blanka (advisor) ; Nešpor, Zdeněk (referee)
The thesis deals with the question of the development of the Old Town Square in Prague as the main public space of the city, where significant moments of European history are expressed and which establishes Czech national memory as a "place of memory". The findings of memory and spatial studies, which converge on Pierre Nora's theory of the tendency of modern society to anchor the past through the creation of lieux de mémoire, are complemented by a historical discussion of individual historical periods of the Czech lands. Through the use of contemporary periodicals, records of assemblies, vignettes, maps, and finally photographs, the interpretation also focuses on the contemporary discourse that was linked to the events on the square, on the basis of which it also provides a reflection on the sites of memory that were created in the context of the Old Town Square during the studied period. Particular attention is paid to a pair of monuments, the Marian Column and the monument to Mister Jan Hus, whose "struggle for space" reflects a number of political, religious, social and other themes of Czech history.
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Preserved monastery gardens in Lesser Town of Prague
Pulcová, Veronika ; Altová, Blanka (advisor) ; Pešek, Jiří (referee)
The subject of this thesis is a description of the current state and a retrospective view of the history of the preserved monastery gardens in the context of the urban development of the Lesser Town. Specifically, these are the gardens that have survived at the Grand Priory of the Knights of Malta at the Church of Our Lady under the Chain, the garden of the Oblate Augustinians at the Church of St. Thomas, the garden of the Dominicans (formerly Magdalenites) at the former Church of St. Mary Magdalene, the garden of the Barefoot Carmelites at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Theatines (Cajetans) at the Church of Our Lady of Consolation, the Jesuit garden at the Church of St. Nicholas, the garden of the Convent of the English Maidens at the Church of St. Joseph (Vojanovy sady) and the garden of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo under Petrin. I describe the current state of the individual gardens and retrospectively trace their historical transformations in an urban context.
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Memory and history of Palliardi family - two concepts of studying the family's past
Pulcová, Kateřina ; Altová, Blanka (advisor) ; Pešek, Jiří (referee)
In this thesis, I focus on the Palliardi family of Italian origin and their activities in the Czech lands using the methodological approaches of historiography and memory studies. Descendants of the Palliardi family still live in the Czech Republic today and some of its members, including myself, are interested in the family history, keeping it in mind and searching for traces of it in the historical sources of family members who worked as plasterers on important buildings of the Czech Baroque period in the 17th and 18th centuries. The family memory does not go back to the time when the first Palliardi came to Bohemia, but based on the historical findings so far, it is assumed that this happened after the Thirty Years' War. The first documented Palliardi in Bohemia was Giovanni Pietro, a plasterer originally from the Lago di Como area, who is mentioned as a burgher of Prague's Lesser Town from 1680 and the ancestor of five generations (until 1870) of this Lesser Town family who were engaged in the profession of plastering or building. Ignác Jan Nepomuk (May 15, 1737 - March 18, 1821) and his son Ignác Alois (1765 - August 10, 1806) became figures of the family memory and important historical personalities of the history of Baroque and Classicist architecture. The last builder of the Palliardi...
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