Painting decorations of the Sedlec Antiphonary manuscript (Prague, NK ČR, XIII A 6) serve as significant evidence for art painting development in Central Europe during the cultural changes, when Late Romanesque style evolved into Gothic. The aim of the thesis is to submit profound art-historical analysis of the Sedlec Antiphonary manuscript, which is stored in National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague, call number XIII A 6. The main method of this work is the careful study of painting decorations in the manuscript, in terms of both analysing their layout in general and typology of the single ornament motifs. Among other methods are formal analysis, comparison based on typology and iconography analysis. Similarities of the manuscript and works of the same time of origin, such as Mater verborum manuscript (Prague, KNM, X A 11) or Wolfenbüttel sketch-book , are also taken into consideration. Due to this comparison could be proved that the author of the Sedlec Antiphonary was probably influenced by Byzantine, Venetian and German painting styles. The Sedlec Antiphonary represents an important and practically key work in the context of painting development in the 13th century. Keywords book painting, miniature, initial letter, Women at the Sepulcher, 13th century

The Church was not the only progenitor and disseminator of ideas in medieval England, but it was the most pervasive. Relations between the ecclesiastical and lay realms are well documented at high social levels but become progressively obscure as one descends to the influence of the Church at large on society at large (and vice versa). The twelfth century was a time of great energy and renewal in the leadership and scholarship of the Church; comparable religious energy and renewal can be seen in late-medieval lay culture. The momentum was passed on in the thirteenth century, and pastoral care was the means of its transfer. The historical sources in this field tend to be either prescriptive, such as treatises on how to hear confessions, or descriptive, such as bishops’ registers. Prescription and description have generally been addressed separately. Likewise, the parish clergy and the friars are seldom studied together. These families of primary sources and secondary literature are brought together here to produce a more fully-rounded picture of pastoral care and church life. The Church was an inherently local institution, shaped by geography, personalities, social structures, and countless ad hoc solutions to local problems. Few studies of medieval English ecclesiastical history have fully accepted the considerable implications of this for pastoral care; close attention to local variation is a governing methodology of this thesis, which concludes with a series of local case studies of pastoral care in several dioceses, demonstrating not only the divergences between them but also the variations within them.

Diploma thesis Power of the First Generations of the Ronov Noble Family and Their Position Within Czech Mediaeval Society was dealing with the position and power of the first three generations of the representatives of Ronov noblemen in the direct line towards Hynek from Dubá. In the prosopographical part of the thesis the lines of testimony were analysed and these proved clearly that the maximum of their court career was occurring during the reign of Wenceslaus the First. This maximum is also reflected in the other part of the thesis - which is the analysis of possession- holding. At the age of Wenceslaus the First Ronov noblemen built up a vast area of their particular possessions in Northern Bohemia and gradually they were developing colonisation of this region. Even though Ronov noble family did not take up any posts at the court, the exception is the position of Budysin administrator, they created a very tight connection to Premyslid kings due to the common childhood with Wenceslaus the First and they also supported him politically and also militarily in his inner and foreign policy. After the death of Castoslov from Zitava the position of power in the direct family line began to deteriorate, the peak of power was now for Lichtenburg family. The minimum of the court career comes after their left the...

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1 ABSTRACT The work deals with the infiltration process and the emphyteutic law evidence in the Čáslav province in the Middle ages. This area can be delimitated with the range of the Iron Mountains from the north, and then with the river Sázava from the south. Several significant territorial suzerains (authorities) acted here such as Vilémov monastery, Sedlec monastery and Želivka monastery, especially significant was the colonization activity of the Lichtenberk family which was developing in the area from the half of the 13th century. The Lichtenberks came to the area from north-western Bohemia, from the contact area of the Czech state, where their relatively early-ripening emphyteutic contracts are documented, and infiltration of early forms of the German law is presumed in general. This medieval law, sometimes designated as "stable and firm" in written sources, was brought from the area of present western Europe (also form the Netherlands) by new settlers, colonists who were bringing with them excluding new knowledge of landscape cultivation (drainage, forest transformation into fields) also juridical habits, which were used to adjust legislative relations while establishing villages. They were not only farmers, but they were also other specialists, mainly miners who brought with them technologies of...

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La present tesi tracta d’aprofundir en el coneixement dels orígens del pactisme valencià. És per això que analitza de forma exhaustiva les diverses negociacions politicofiscals que tingueren lloc entre la monarquia i la comunitat política del regne de València des de mitjan segle XIII fins a la dècada de 1360. Així, tot plegat, estudia la trajectòria d’unes transformacions estretament imbricades entre si: d’una banda, el progressiu desenvolupament de la pràctica parlamentària fins a esdevenir la principal forma de resolució de greuges entre els estaments i el monarca, i, d’una altra banda, l’evolució de la fiscalitat reial i local fins a donar lloc a uns sistemes fiscals generals i municipals que quedaren controlats pels dirigents estamentals. D’aquesta manera, mitjançant l’anàlisi d’aquells canvis, es determinen amb major detall les fases i les característiques del procés de configuració del pactisme al territori valencià. / The purpose of this thesis is to deepen the knowledge on the origins of Valencian pactism. In order to achieve that, it analyzes exhaustively the various political/fiscal negotiations that took place between the monarchy and the political community of the kingdom of Valencia from the mid-thirteenth century until the 1360’s. It is, therefore, a study on the history of transformations closely imbricated in each other: on the one hand, the gradual development of the parliamentary practice until it became the main way for resolving grievances between the king and the estates of the realm and, on the other hand, the evolution of the royal and local taxation to general and local fiscal systems that were controlled by the heads of the estates. Thus, by means of analyzing these changes, the different stages and characteristics of the configuration process of pactism in the kingdom of Valencia can be more precisely determined.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / On May 31st, 1252, before the most important aristocrats of the kingdom, Alfonso X was crowned King of Castile and Leon in a public ceremony and detached from traditional sacralization rites of the medieval monarchies. The political trajectory of the Alfonsine reign was marked by periods of unrelenting conflicts and social tensions, the causes of these disruptions were directly linked to the production and attempt to establish a daring government program that sought above all to unify legislation and renew the right of the kingdom, something not effected. Faced with a political scenario of uprisings and the need to secure the support of his subjects for their demands for government, Alfonso X produced a range of legal rules - coercive and concessive - aimed at strengthening his royal authority, at the same time time in which it looked for legislative tools that made possible to rebalance its relation with the political society of the kingdom in an eternal game of powers. We have understood these aspects like something inherent to the noble negotiations that guided the relations between this monarch and the aristocracies secular and ecclesiastical of the period. When we take the characteristics presented above as the north of research and when analyzing a documentary corpus composed of chronicles and legal documents elaborated on and during the Alfonsine period, we had as objective in our research to examine the relations of negotiations developed by Alfonso X throughout his reign, looking for to understand the constant crises of monarchical authority, abyss of legitimacy and, consequently, the political and juridical actions established by him in the search for the realization of power. Thus, we could argue that political fragmentation did not mean the absence of legitimacy, authority, or power. On the contrary, decentralization only emphasized the mechanisms of negotiations, a fundamental aspect in the constitution and maintenance of seigniorial society in the Central Middle Ages. / No dia 31 de maio de 1252, diante dos aristocratas mais importantes do reino, Alfonso X foi coroado rei de Castela e Leão em uma cerimônia pública e desprendida de ritos de sacralização tradicionais das monarquias medievais. A trajetória política do reinado alfonsino foi marcada por períodos de incessantes conflitos e tensões sociais, as causas de referidas perturbações estavam diretamente ligadas à produção e tentativa de instauração de um audacioso programa de governo que buscava, sobretudo, a unificação legislativa e a renovação do direito do reino, algo não efetivado. Diante de um cenário político de sublevações e na necessidade de garantir o apoio dos seus súditos para as suas demandas de governo, Alfonso X produziu uma gama de normas jurídicas – coercitivas e concessivas – que tinham por finalidade o fortalecimento da sua autoridade régia, ao mesmo tempo em que buscava ferramentas legislativas que possibilitassem equilibrar novamente a sua relação com a sociedade política do reino num eterno jogo de poderes. Temos entendido tais aspectos como algo inerente às negociações senhoriais que nortearam as relações entre este monarca e as aristocracias laicas e eclesiásticas do período. Ao tomarmos as características acima apresentadas como norte de investigação e ao analisarmos um corpus documental composto por crônicas e documentos jurídicos elaborados sobre e no período alfonsino, tivemos como objetivo em nossa pesquisa examinar as relações de negociações desenvolvidas por Alfonso X ao longo do seu reinado, procurando entender as constantes crises de autoridade monárquica, abalos de legitimidade e, consequentemente, as ações políticas e jurídicas instauradas por ele na busca pela efetivação do poder. Assim, pudemos defender o quanto a fragmentação política não significou a ausência da legitimidade, da autoridade e, tampouco, do poder. Ao contrário, a descentralização apenas salientou mais os mecanismos de negociações, aspecto fundamental na constituição e manutenção da sociedade senhorial na Idade Média Central. / São Cristóvão, SE

Submitted by Maria Dulce (mdulce@ndc.uff.br) on 2014-01-27T18:10:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro, Anna-Dissert-2013.pdf: 2004394 bytes, checksum: 20e76a14f23de9c14076ebe2f789d8f6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-27T18:10:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro, Anna-Dissert-2013.pdf: 2004394 bytes, checksum: 20e76a14f23de9c14076ebe2f789d8f6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Estudo sobre as práticas políticas e representações dos judeus durante o reinado de Afonso X, através de fontes de cunho literário e normativo produzidas pelo círculo régio. Buscou-se analisar as diferentes formas de representação e as disposições referentes à tal comunidade. Utilizou-se como fundamento teórico o conceito de representações, de Georges Duby e Roger Chartier; de marginalização, de Bronislaw Geremek; de pária, de Louis Dumont; e de alteridade relativa, de Paul Zumthor, para compor o quadro de nossa análise. Buscamos demonstrar a forte relação existente entre processos de marginalização dos judeus com um projeto de centralização e construção de identidade para o reino. A conclusão apontou para a importância de pensarmos os processos de marginalização em sua dinâmica com a centralidade. Observamos movimentações de aproximação e distanciamento, com a construção de margens fluidas que situam grupos numa condição de alteridade relativa. / Study on political practices and Jewish representation during the reign of Afonso X, using literary and normative documentation produced by the royal power. In our analysis, we sought to expound the different forms of Jewish representation and the royal injuctions related to that community. In order to build a framework for our analysis, we used the following concept: representation, as used by Georges Duby and Roger Chartier, marginalization by Bronislaw Geremek, pariah, by Louis Dumont; and relative alterity, by Paul Zumthor. We sought to demonstrate the intrinsic relationship between Jewish marginalization and the royal centralizing project, with the obvious intention to construct an identity for the kingdom’s subject. In our conclusion, we pointed out to the importance for considering marginalization processes in their intrinsic bond to the centrality. In that matter, we observed movements of proximity and detachment, resulting in the construction of a fluctuating margin, in which social groups are situated on a condition of relative alterity to the majority.

Michal Zezula: Selected issues in the High Medieval transformation of the Moravian- Silesian border region (evidence from archeological sources) This study consists of three chapters and focuses on the Moravian-Silesian border region and its transformation during the High Middle Ages (in the 13th century). For most of the Early Middle Ages, this region lay on the boundary between the early Bohemian and Polish states, and after being annexed to the Přemyslid territories at the end of the 12th century it underwent fundamental changes, which are symbolized by the early emergence of institutionalized towns within the Bohemian Lands. The first chapter focuses on the Golensizi region in the Early Middle Ages, particularly on the village of Holasovice, which has attracted the attention of archeologists and historical researchers for over two centuries. Based on an assessment of older and more recent archeological discoveries and surveys, the significance of the location during the second half of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th century has been determined. Although there is at present no relevant archeological information which would provide evidence of the role played by Holasovice in the structures of the Piast state, its status as a local- level administrative centre in the Přemyslid-controlled...