Pierre Ryckmans, né en 1935 en Belgique, est connu dans le monde entier sous le pseudonyme de Simon Leys, qu’il a adopté pour écrire une série d’essais sur la politique chinoise contemporaine. Cependant, ce sinologue perspicace est avant tout un grand historien de l’art chinois. Son œuvre a ouvert de nouvelles perspectives méthodologiques et théoriques : définition claire de cet « art de plus » (« one more art ») qu’est la calligraphie, périodisation de la peinture, établissement d’une terminologie esthétique, le tout appuyé sur la traduction non seulement de traités d’art, mais aussi de textes de plusieurs genres caractéristiques de la culture lettrée chinoise : notes au fil du pinceau, propos, souvenirs, canons classiques… L’apport principal de Pierre Ryckmans est d’avoir abordé la Chine tant classique que contemporaine par sa culture visuelle, et d’avoir su adapter l’histoire de l’art aux spécificités du terrain et du contexte de production – spécificités d’ordre linguistiques, philosophiques, littéraires et politiques. Dans l’historiographie de l’histoire de l’art chinois, Pierre Ryckmans occupe ainsi une place majeure, qui instruit une grande partie des évolutions de la recherche internationale actuelle, et dont il fallait expliquer le mécanisme de construction. Cette thèse s’est donc concentrée sur l’apport de Pierre Ryckmans à l’histoire de l’art chinois, afin de mettre en valeur la cohérence de sa méthode et la pertinence durable de ses résultats. / Pierre Ryckmans, born in 1935 in Belgium, is famous throughout the world under the pen name of Simon Leys, which he adopted to write a series of essays on Chinese contemporary politics. However, this perspicacious sinologist is first and foremost a great Chinese art historian. His works have opened new methodological and theoretical perspectives: clear definition of this « one more art » that is calligraphy, periodization of painting, the setting of a terminology for aesthetics, all these based not only on the translation of art treaties, but also of several types of texts that are characteristic of Chinese scholars culture: casual literary notes, comments, memories, Chinese canons… The main contribution of Pierre Ryckmans is to have addressed both Classic and Contemporary China through its visual culture, to have succeeded in adapting art history to the specificities of the field and context of production – specificities related to linguistics, philosophy, literature and politics. In the historiography of Chinese art history, Pierre Ryckmans occupies a prominent place, largely influential to the developments of current international research. These construction mechanisms had to be explained. This dissertation thus focuses on the contribution of Pierre Ryckmans to Chinese art history, in order to emphasise the coherence of his methods and the lasting relevance of its results.

Reading Pekař. Four Interpretations of one Text Marek Fapšo Abstract of Final Thesis Following thesis is an empirical contribution to the theory of historiography. It starts with analysis of current situation in the historical sciences, which can be epistemologically called as methodological pluralism. That means, there are many equal but often antagonistic points of view on the past. In the center, the thesis offers four analytical interpretations of Josef Pekař's text Czechs as the Apostles of Barbarism, which was written by this famous Czech historian in 1897. Four analysis are based on four methodological concepts: Émile Durkheim's sociology of religion, Alexandre Koyre's history of science, Roman Ingarden's phenomenology of literature and Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history. This quasi-empirical part is finished and completed by theoretical reflection of the four attempts. It leads to a theory of historiography inspired by philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The main task of following thesis is to consider relation between chosen method and historical knowledge (of truth).

This diploma thesis explores the concept of theatricality as developed by the Swiss theatrologist Stefan Hulfeld. The thesis aims at a presentation of Hulfeld's research which is based on examination of historical documents, his particular focus being the theatricality of the 18. century in Solothurn (Switzerland). In this thesis, his theory is compared to other theatricality theories developed by Rudolf Münz and Andreas Kotte. The more general aim of the presented work is to devise a notion of theatricality which is based on historical- theatrological exploration of historical documents.

The purpose of the present thesis is to analyze the personality picture of Tsar Ivan the Terrible and his government in Stalin's Russia with regard to the transformation that occurred in spirit of the party ideology. The interpretation of historical facts of Ivan's period in the present work is depicted not only in historiography but also in artistic production, and it aims to express the way professional works, novels, dramas, and films are used for political propaganda. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The thesis is dealing with the term "representation of historian" on the example of czechoslovakian historiography of the first half of twentieth century. For understanding of this work is important the context of my bachelor thesis, which dealed with the same problem using quantitative approaches on Kulturní adresář (Culture adressary) written by Antonín Dolenský. This thesis is an antropologization of the same issue in the meaning og underscoring the multiplicity of representations and its independence on the macroperspective of usual interpretations of czechoslovakian historiography. This perspective is enabled by choosen sources, which are texts of three historians - schoolmates, who studied together field of study history - geography on the Faculty of arts of Charles university. But their careers had differnt ways. Fridolín Macháček was during his whole professional life connected with Plzeň and its archive, Josef Pešek was teacher on high school in Prague (Akademické gymnázium) and historian of east bohemia and last but not least Václav Chaloupecký archivist in Roudnice nad Labem, professor of czekoslovakian history at university in Bratislava and than in Prague. The advantage of these sources is possibility to focus on the term "representation of historian" like a result of process of...

HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CZECH - HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE ABSTRAKT V ANGLICKÉM JAZZYCE JMÉNO ŘEŠITELE (PISATEL PRÁCE): JAN KONŮPEK NÁVEZ PRÁCE: DĚJINY STŘEDOVĚKÉHO OSÍDLENÍ V KONTEXTU ČESKÉ HISTORIOGRAFIE - MINULOST A PERSPEKTIVA NÁVEZ PRÁCE V ANGLIČTINĚ: HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CZECH - HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE OBOR STUDIA: HISTORIE - (JEDNOOBOROVÁ - NAVAZUJÍCÍ MGR. STUDIUM) EMAIL NA ŘEŠITELE: KONUPEK@LOKET.NPU.CZ JMÉNO VEDOUCÍHO PRACÁCE: prof. PhDr. ZDENĚK BENEŠ, CSc. The thesis intends to affect changes within the studies of medieval settlement in context with Czech historiography. It is going to focus on the relationship between the character of historiographical discourse and applied methods of research. Particularly the wider area of historical Cheb will be accounted in the thesis. It should be used as a model example of changes of historical questioning, depending on changes in the knowledge of historical and social context. Pursuant the data found, perspectives for future research ought to be outlined together with optimal ways of presentations of the results.

The aim of this thesis is to explore and evaluate the scientific work of art historian Rudolf Chadraba who is generally considered to be one of the founders and the most distinctive representatives of an iconological method in czech art history. The Master's thesis doesn't make efforts to survey Chadraba's scientific career from biographic point of view in a clearly and chronologically way, because the main focus of the interpretation lies on starting points of Chadraba's work, specific influences on him, particular motifs and themes, which are penetrating and reflected in his academical works of art historian and which therefore form his peculiar method. Biographical information about Rudolf Chadraba is introduced here only briefly, the text tends to point out Chadraba's transdisciplinary approach and his extensive conception of iconology. Moreover, it pays a lot of attention to influences of such personalities as Max Dvořák, Ladislav Cejp, Alois Dempf, Josef Strzygowski or Herbert Read, who represent important source of inspiration in Chadraba's scientific work. Theories and methods of these scholars in connection with Chadraba's interest in tradition and triumphalism in christian art initiated his pursuing parallels between european and oriental art, which were insufficiently employed in czech art...

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Louisiana's unique social and cultural history with its three-tiered racial system (rather than the biracial system that governed much of the United States) left the region and the history of its black inhabitants, outside of familiar narratives of United States black history. Marcus B. Christian, the self-trained intellectual, sought to research, and make public, the history of blacks in Louisiana. His career demonstrates the importance of training, economic status, and geographical focus in the production of African American history. Many of the stories he told, through writing and research, retrieved the largely forgotten history of Creoles of color. In fact, his own story was an extension of the black intellectual traditions of that Creole population. Even as his work revealed black Louisiana's unique culture, it also served as the foundation for Christian's own intellectual legacy, one with both material and intellectual dimensions.

[pt] Os estudos da literatura, da história e da história da história atuais tendem a considerar inadequado abordar seus problemas e conceitos fundamentais isoladamente dos seus contextos e não visualizá-las como redes de interações que emergem de complicados processos psico-biosociais nos quais a figura curiosa e criativa do observador ocupa lugar central. A partir destes pressupostos, esta tese objetiva sugerir um modelo para a construção de uma história da literatura, descrevendo os fundamentos meta-teóricos que sustentam a construção dos conceitos principais a serem utilizados neste modelo, as teorias subjacentes às noções de literatura, história, história da literatura e os elementos importantes destes conceitos. / [en] Nowadays Literary studies, history and history of history consider inadequate approaches to their basic concepts that do no take into consideration their contexts and their emergence as interactive networks derived from complex psychobiosocial processes generated by a curious and creative observer. Based on these presuppositions, this thesis aims to suggest a model to construct a history of literature. In order to reach its aims, I will describe its main concepts metatheoretical fundamentals applied to build this model, as well as theories that deal with the concepts of literature, history and history of literature and the relevant elements of these concepts.