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The change of the Saint Matthew's fair from religious celebration to mass entertainment
 Hantáková, Anna ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Hlavačka, Milan (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the St. Matthew's fair and its transformation during the period from the second half of the nineteenth century to approximately 1930. It will be focused on the process of the consumerization of the pilgrimage and its reasons. It will be naturally its social composition and importance discussed. Further the role, that the press and the advertisement in this process of consumerization played and in addition the location of the pilgrimage and its availability. It will be the second life of this fest discussed as well. While in the context of the medieval studies is pilgrimage primary as matter of faith conceived, this thesis on the contrary follow and explains the change of pilgrimage from a religious to a fun character and its "secularization". The work will be based primary on the periodical print and secondary on the Memory book from the St. Matthew's church. In the part that deals with the second life of the festivity, will be also fictional and memorial literature considered. Key words: Czech lands, Prague, 1850-1930, Pilgrimage, Matthew's fair
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