DOMINIQUE VIVANT DENON - FROM TRAVELS IN ITALY TO THE LOUVRE MUSEUM. TOWARD A TYPOLOGY OF THE 18TH CENTURY TRAVELOGUE. Keywords: travelogue, 18th century, libertine culture, Italy, Egypte, Napoleon, Louvre. Number of characters: 121 846 (68 pages) The present thesis, Dominique Vivant Denon - From travels in Italy to the Louvre Museum is divided into two parts. The first one is a monograph on baron Vivant Denon, an important figure of the cultural life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the author of Point de Lendemain, two travelogues, Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte and Voyage en Sicile, but, primarily, Napoleon's advisor in the field of fine art and the first director of The Louvre. The introductory pages of the thesis deal with the reception of Denon's works. There is a certain flux in the perception of Denon's oeuvre which has given rise to a range of interesting issues. One of them, the popularity of the libertine culture of pre-revolutionary France in the second half of the twentieth century, accounts for the fact that the novella Point de Lendemain is today the best known piece among Denon's extensive and multifaceted writings. A shift in the perception of the travelogue as a literary genre in our time, when the remotest of places are accessible in hours, may be...

Individually Published Czech Festive and Occasional Preachings of the End of the 17th and the First Two Thirds of the 18th Century Miloš Sládek The thesis concentrates on the area of festive and occasional homiletics in Bohemia after the Battle of White Mountain. Since the end of the 17th century, homiletics had represented the Czech leading literary genre with extraordinary influence on the masses. This influence was even strenghtened when printed preachings gradually became popular reading. The main focus of the thesis is on the questions of preparation of preaching, problematics of preaching handbooks, relationship of a preacher and his listeners, as well as the area of Classicist and conceptual preaching. The Baroque concept is described in connections with the aspect of growing author's self-esteem at that time. Editions of chosen sixteen preachings with introductions are added to demonstrate (or relativise) the conclusions of the first part of the thesis. Festive preaching in Bohemia was essentially influenced by legends, German Catholic preaching and myths and folk-tales. Emphasis on Christian morality is typical for Sunday preaching, however, it also appears in festive preachings. The influence of festive and occasional preaching of the end of the 17th and the first half of the 18th century on...

The aim of this thesis was to write a monograph of the painter František Jakub Prokyš, who lived and worked in 18th century in the south of Bohemia. The first part is text put together from thoroughly examined archival sources and literature. It deals with the painter's private and professional life. The text is separated into compact chapters. The events are arranged chronologically. There are also included notes explaining in more detail the profiles of his customers. The main part of the text is the thorough cataloguing of Prokyš's works of art. The works are separated into groups according to the type of work such as pendant pictures, wall paintings, no longer existing works of art and other attributed works. Each catalogue entry has a unified structure. There is the title, technique, dating and origin at the beginning. Then follows the list of the archival sources and literature. In cases where it was possible, historical information about the works of art is included. An important part of the text is the description of the art piecework of art and its comparison with the painter's other works. There are mentioned the patterns of the works, if they were discovered during the research for this thesis. A separate part deals with the topic of iconography. The appendices contain the collection of...

'The Industrial Revolution' is simultaneously one of the most under-examined and overly-simplified concepts in all of social science. One of the ways it is highly under-examined is in the arena of the ecological, particularly through the lens of critical world-history. This paper attempts to analyze the phenomenon through the lens of the world-ecology synthesis, in three distinct phases: First, the history of the conceptualization of the Industrial Revolution is examined at length, paying special attention to the knowledge foundations that determine these conceptualizations. Secondly, I sift out what I believe is the dominant model throughout most of modern and now postmodern history, which I identify as the techno-economic narrative. I then present the main critical world-historical challenge to that argument (that the Industrial Revolution was a unified, linear, two-century phenomenon) by outlining the critical interpretations of Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, among others, leading a view of industrialization that is over the very long term, or what Braudel referred to as the longue durée. This long-view form of critical historical analysis is unabashedly Marxist, so there is some foray into various pieces of the Marxian canon, pieces that are often left untouched or at the least under-utilized in many politico-economic analyses of environmental history and politico-ecological narratives as well. Thirdly, I attempt to bring this new long-form view of industrialization more firmly into the ecological, but filtering the basic presuppositions of the 'techno-economic' narratives and the Marxist 'critical world-historical' narratives through the presuppositions of Jason W. Moore's world-ecology synthesis. What we arrive at through this filtering process is a very different view of the Industrial Revolution than we are used to hearing about. This is Part I of a much larger research process, one that I intend to bring into the present and future by looking at the development process of the BRICS as the next extension of the Industrial Revolution. What this paper is most concerned with is re-igniting what I think is a valuable debate among theorists, economic historians, and Marxist ecological thinkers, the debate about what exactly this phenomenon was, is, and will be. My small contribution is to re-define it in relationship to its really-existing history, including its antecedents and possible future expansions.

Co-tutelle de thèse avec l'École Normale Supérieure de Lyon / Dans cette thèse, j'étudie la réception singulière de la philosophie de Leibniz dans le corpus matérialiste français du 18e siècle. Il s'agit ainsi de repérer, dans les textes de La Mettrie, Diderot, Helvétius et d'Holbach, les éléments (concepts, arguments ou images) leibniziens dont ces auteurs usent de manière à élaborer leur propre doctrine. L'objectif est alors triple : premièrement, comprendre les sources du matérialisme moderne et notamment reconsidérer ses rapports avec la métaphysique du 17e siècle. On montrera ainsi, avec l'exemple particulier du recours à la philosophie de Leibniz, que le matérialisme est moins une doctrine du rejet de la métaphysique classique que de son détournement et de sa subversion. Deuxièmement, montrer l'importance de la figure de Leibniz dans la constitution d'une philosophie dite « radicale », c'est-à-dire nuancer le schéma largement admis actuellement d'une identité entre « radicalité » et « spinozisme ». Enfin, cette étude des usages matérialistes de Leibniz vise, par l'analyse des réceptions, à déterminer des interprétations possibles de la philosophie de Leibniz, ou du moins de certains de ses éléments. Il s'agit ainsi de considérer le devenir historique de la philosophie leibnizienne comme le lieu de la révélation de ses potentialités théoriques. La thèse comporte deux parties. La première analyse les médiations par lesquelles la philosophie de Leibniz est introduite en France au 18e siècle (Wolff, Du Châtelet, Maupertuis). La seconde présente quatre usages de la philosophie leibnizienne repérables chez La Mettrie, Diderot, D'Holbach et Helvétius ainsi que le processus de démembrement que ces auteurs lui font subir. / In this dissertation, I study the unexpected reception of Leibniz's philosophy in the 18th century French materialism. The aim is to identify the leibnizian concepts, arguments or images that are used by La Mettrie, Diderot, d'Holbach and Helvétius to build their own thoughts. Three kinds of results are shown. Firstly, to understand better the origins of French modern materialisme and particularly its relationship to 17th century metaphysics. In this perspective, this stydy shows that materialists do not necessarilyu reject metaphysics but rather use it for their own goals. Secondly, to show the role of Leibniz in the in the elaboration of a so-called radical philosophy, which means to question the common idea that radicalism originates from spinozism. Lastly, by looking at the materialists uses of Leibniz's concepts, it tries to identify new possible interpretations of his philosophy, more precisely to consider the historical reception of leibnizian philosophy as a way to reveal his theoretical potential. This work is divided in two parts : in the first one, it studies the mediations by which Leibniz's philosophy was introduced in France in the 18th century (Wolff, Du Châtelet, Maupertuis). In the second one, it examines four different uses of the leibnizian philosophy, namely, in La Mettrie, Diderot, d'Holbach and Helvétius.

The diploma thesis deals with the iconography and cult of St. Joseph in the Czech lands during the Baroque period. The first part of the thesis deals with the way St. Joseph is presented in sources, namely in canonical gospels, apocryphal gospels of childhood and in legends. The development of the cult and iconography of St. Joseph from antiquity to modern times is also outlined. The main part of the thesis focuses on the cult and iconography of St. Joseph in the Czech lands in the 17th and 18th centuries. The influence of the Habsburgs on the spread of this cult is taken into account. Attention is paid to the reception of St. Joseph among the patron saints of Bohemia and the introduction of his public holiday in 1654, which arose on the initiative of Emperor Ferdinand III. The next part of the thesis analyzes the responses to the reception of St. Joseph among the patron saints of Bohemia in art and also on the examples of his depiction in Baroque art in the Czech lands. The researched monuments include the fountain with the column of St. Joseph in the New Town of Prague, the statue of St. Joseph on Charles Bridge, painting of the Holy Family in the Church of Our Lady before Týn and the St. Joseph's painting cycle in Krzeszów in Silesia. Keywords St. Joseph, Baroque, Iconography, Cult, Habsburgs,...

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