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Prokop, Jan and the Others. The Younger Rabštejn Family in the Turbulences of the Hussite Century
Kozler, David ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Novotný, Robert (referee)
The thesis deals with the significant western Bohemian noble family of the younger Rabštejns in the turbulent "Hussite Century", known also as the short 15th century (1400-1485). The primary focus of the research is the examination of the lives and careers of individual members of the family, the most prominent of which are the Chancellor Prokop († probably 1470) and the humanist Jan (1437-1473), author of the famous Dialogus. Their critically written biographies, appropriately set in the context of the political, religious and cultural history of the given period, review the factual errors of present research and answer the question of how specific nobles of the Rabštejn family managed the dramatic events of the "Hussite Century". The explication elaborated based on a classic genealogical and biographical approach is supplemented by sections on the social and economic rise of the younger Rabštejns in the 15th century, using knowledge from a modern, dynamically developing study of social mobility, royal court issues and noble representation. This, along with extensive source and literary heuristics on which the thesis is based, enables us to look at the history of the studied noble family with multiple lenses and place it in a wider context. The sources used are critically examined, and their selection...
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Prokop of Rabštejn - Czech Late-medieval Diplomat
Kozler, David ; Zilynská, Blanka (advisor) ; Bobková, Lenka (referee)
The thesis discusses the life and career of the late-medieval Czech diplomat Prokop of Rabštejn (about 1410 - probably 1470), an older brother of the renowned humanist Jan of Rabštejn. The main part of the thesis follows Prokop's activities during the Poděbrad era in which he successively served under Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, King of Bohemia and Hungary Ladislaus the Posthumous and the elected Bohemian King George of Poděbrady, but also pays attention to Prokop's background and his work in the office of the German rulers Sigismund of Luxemburg and Albert II Habsburg. The activities of Prokop of Rabštejn are discussed in the wider context of Central European history in the Late Middle Ages and with regard to specific cultural aspects of that time (reception of humanism in the Bohemian environment of the Poděbrad era). The thesis draws from authentic period documents both of a diplomatic (in particular Prokop's correspondence) and narrative character, and critically examines older literature focusing on or related to the topic.
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