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Tombstones in the church of St. Jakub in Jihlava
VENCELIDES, Jan
The provided bachelor thesis examines the identification and delineation of the life stories of individuals commemorated at the end of the 18th century by gravestones located within the flooring of the parish church of St. James the Greater in Jihlava. The initial chapter provides a concise overview of the historical context of the royal upper town of Jihlava until the first half of the 18th century. This overview encompasses not only the political history of the town but also delves into aspects of administration and religious development. Subsequently, the thesis explores the history of the parish church of St. James the Greater in Jihlava, addressing both its external and internal features, furnishings, and significant events witnessed by St. James Church throughout its existence. The central segment of the thesis, drawing from the manuscript of Jan Jindřich Marzy, supplementary sources, and specialized literature, endeavors to reconstruct the life trajectories of 22 prominent Jihlava burgher families and other individuals associated with the sepulchral monuments within the interior of St. James Church.
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The Image of Jan Hus in the Early Modern Czech Literature
Hejdová, Tereza ; Andrlová Fidlerová, Alena (advisor) ; Škarpová, Marie (referee)
The work The Image of Jan Hus in the Early Modern Czech Literature tries to map different ways of description of this Czech preacher in selected literary texts from 15th to 18th century, to capture the changes which his image underwent. The chosen authors come from different countries and use different languages, represent different environments, social classes and opinion groups, they also have different education and religion. Individual literary works were assessedby means of comparing the key episodes that are either repeated in the texts, or the author intentionally did not use them. To understand the image of Jan Hus as a whole, also contemporary iconography was taken into account , which in some cases has been taken from other literary texts than those which were compared, so that the image of Hus whereas complete as possible. The comparison of the texts and iconography showed, how accurate the observation of the described scheme was and how the image of Jan Hus was gradually changing. The combination of written and iconographic material from specific time intervals allowed us to observe the gradual change of conceptions of the personality of Jan Hus and events connected with him, because the authors represent the opinion of their ethnic group and time. The image of Jan Hus is therefore very...
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Caves in Bohemia et Moravia Subterranea by Mauritius Vogt (1669–1730)
Rychnová, L. ; Vokurka, Michal
The Manuscript Bohemia et Moravia Subterranea (1729) by Mauritius Vogt reflects the subterranean landscapes and underground spaces based on Athanasius Kircher’s theories. The paper analyses the application of Kirchers’s terminology to the natural phenomena from Bohemia and Moravia. Further, we focused on how Vogt worked with his sources – how far he relied on literature, correspondence, or personal experience.
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Estate members of the Bohemian Land Diets in the years between 1606 and 1610
ZIMOLA, Josef
This master's thesis deals with the noble estate members of the Bohemian Land Diets in the years between 1606 and 1610 and develops the bachelor's thesis. The first part focuses on a brief summary of knowledge about the institutions of the diets and their role in the political system of the time preceding the Battle of White Mountain. The second chapter describes the political background of the years in which the examined diets took place. Parliamentary resolutions emerged directories of the present estate members, which are the key to the most important part of the work - specially the analysis of the composition of the present nobility at the session of the Diets. Data about the present nobles were obtained mainly using the available literature and sources. To the fundamental characteristics of those people belong the estate integration, regional pertinence, wealth, religious orientation, some cultural activities, and mutual relative marriages. The final part of the thesis contains an attempt to define the core of the parliament and compares the results of the research with the findings of the bachelor's thesis. The main goal of the work is mainly to deepen the existing knowledge about persons who defended the interests of the estates on those meetings at the beginning of the 17th century.
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The Estate Members of the Bohemian Land Diets before the Outbreak of the Bohemian Revolt
ZIMOLA, Josef
This bachelor thesis deals with the estate members of the Bohemian Land Diets before the Bohemian Revolt between the years 1618 to 1620. The first part focuses on the description of the institutions of the diets in the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th century. It deals with the role of the diets in the political system of the Bohemian estate monarchy, their competencies, the course of negotiations and the meaning of this institution as an important communication platform between the estates and the monarch. Next part of the thesis focuses on the political development in the last few years before the beginning of the Bohemian Revolt. It mainly deals with the events in the years 1616 and 1617 when the two land diets took place. Resolutions arisen on these meetings contain directories of the estate members, and their structure was based on the current literature and published sources. To the fundamental characteristics of those people belong the estate integration, regional pertinence, wealth, religious orientation, some cultural activities, and mutual relative marriages. The final part of the thesis compares detected information about participants of both land diets and tries to answer who defended the interests of the Bohemian estates on those meetings.
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The burial ritual and genesis of the new graveyards in the Kingdom of Bohemia of early modern period
SAMEK, Jakub
This diploma thesis will focus on the issue of burial rites before the year 1620. The first part will introduce the comparison of the burial ritual with the three most common confessions that were important in the early modern Kingdom of Bohemia. Priestly agendas will be the main written sources for this section. The second part will point to the origin of new graveyards. The main aim of the second part will be the description of the concrete graveyards located in the Kingdom of Bohemia, except Prague, which were created throughout this period. Furthermore, it will present three elementary causes of their establishment. The encyclopaedia Města a městečka v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku written by Karel Kuča will be the initial literal source of information. The primary sources will be some books about early modern law which help discover the issue of founding new early modern graveyards. The other primary sources could be letters or testaments.
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Jakub Popovický of Popovice and other students from the Czech Lands at the Wittenberg University
ROSÍKOVÁ, Kateřina
This diploma thesis deals with education in early modern period, especially at universities, which is related to the issue of grand tours. It is mainly focused on the Wittenberg University, where Jakub Popovický of Popovice studied and whose album amicorum is the subject of this thesis. One of the main goals is to introduce a group of friends, acquaintances and colleagues of Jakub Popovický who he met in Wittenberg or after his studies in Bohemia. In the edition of the Wittenberg University Register we will also search for other students from Bohemia and Moravia and we will try to gather information about them from various sources (for example from their alba amicorum, diaries or literature) to understand where they came from to Wittenberg, their social structure, their lives and subsequent careers.
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The Ceremonial Entry of the Emperor Rudolph II to Olomouc in 1577
BURIANOVÁ, Zuzana
The presented thesis deals with the Ceremonial entry of the Emperor Rudolph II to Olomouc in June 1577 and ancient ritual of corporative indulgence, which legitimatized the accession of the ruler to the throne. The authoress wanted to approach the Early modern celebration by methodological concept of symbolic communication whose theoretical data were compiled especially by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger. The thesis is based on scientific approaches of historical anthropology and tries to introspect into the history of mentalities. The authoress analyses the period source whose author was an eyewitness of the whole event. In introduction of this thesis the authoress deals with presentation of methodological resources, literature which was hinge for this thesis, and of used sources. In the sekond chapter there is described the journey of the Emperor Rudolph II to Prague, from there was started the encomiastic wandering through countries of Habsburg Monarchy. The third and the fourth chapter are based on analysis and interpretation of the sources and those chapters are fundamental for this thesis. In the third chapter there is indicated the perception of superiority and power which is reflected in hierarchical organisation of Early modern society. The fourth chapter deals with presentation of Rudolph II by symbols used during his triumphal entry into the city. In conclusion of this thesis the authoress summarizes the results of the research. On the basis of the results she answers the questions which she asked herself while writing this thesis. Festivities were welcomed dulcification of daily life in Early modern period. They had exact given form therefore any disturbance of theirs ritual course was strongly noticed. The authoress finds the conclusion that in the higher Early modern society there played a main role the position and the ceremonial was one of the possibilities how to present that position.
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Construction of Womanhood in the Early Modern Period
SLABOVÁ, Ilona
The thesis ?Construction of Womanhood in the Early Modern Period? may be understood as a particular contribution to the exploration of gender roles in the early modern history society. The source basis of this exploration consists of moralizing writings from 16th and 17th century. These writings are focused on the woman and her social position or on the matrimony. In the first case, their content can be approached as a ?guide? of a sinful woman to the right way or as a glorification of woman gender. In the second case, the matrimony writings try to elevate this bond upon virginity and they introduce the duties of the married couple. Concrete opinions on women originated from the medieval tradition. The woman was still seen as faint and weak. This was the reason why the man had to supervise her and control her, and therefore, he had to have absolute authority. Her place was inside the family where she had children and housekeeping to care for. On the other side, the importance of marriage as such had begun to grow in importance compared to virginity because it was more useful for a society. With the ascent of matrimony, the position of a woman as its part improved as well. The goal of this thesis is to explore how the womanhood is constructed in these writings and to uncover basal intellectual stereotypes regarding women in this period. Quoted moralizing writings are formally analyzed and subsequently compared in the first part of the thesis. Other parts are focused directly on a woman and on the reconstruction of her contemporary ideal image and its counterpart.
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