This diploma thesis focuses on the possibility of cognition and roles of philosophy and science as basic forms of knowledge. It is not an analysis of Neubauer's work, but rather an interpretation of its specific parts. The work offers insights into the post-modern treatment of knowledge as it appears in the essays published in the collections Přímluvce postmoderny (An Intercessor of Postmodernity) and O Sněhurce aneb cesta za smyslem bytí a poznání (Of Snowhite, or The Quest for the Meaning of Existence and Cognition). The work describes and amends Neubauer's recognition of the world. It also shows Neubauer's perspective on the imagination, not only as a part of cognition, but also its influence on the development of human society. Besides canceling the monopoly of Science to truthful cognition, it is also guilty of making assumptions about the future, that will almost certainly prove incorrect. The most important part of the work is the question of equality between the perception of social sciences when compared to the perception of exact sciences, and while that question has not been fully answered, already just asking such questions can be useful.

Submitted work is dealing with burgher burial rite and burial equipment during the 16th ? 18th centuries. The research of a graveyard near the St. Nicholas Church in České Budějovice from 1971, 2001 and 2005 was used for this purpose. There were many artefacts coming from the graves. The aim of my thesis is to describe the burial rite and the burial equipment of the dead from this burial place on the basis of archeological, historical, ethnographical and anthropological sources. Big attention is paid to devotional articles that represented things which went along with the dead in this world and in the other world. The devotional articles can be found today on many burial places in the Czech Republic and in Europe as well. In relation with these findings, indentification and age determination were done. Because the burial place at the St. Nicholas Church is located in České Budějovice, the thesis is focused on Southern Bohemia during the 16th ? 18th centuries, although it stretched beyond the borders of the given area and time to give a more complex point of view.

Bien que né et théorisé comme contrat commercial maritime, le contrat d’assurance est actuellement plus couramment envisagé comme un contrat terrestre de consommation. Pour appréhender cette évolution, il a paru convenable de s’interroger sur l’histoire du contrat d’assurance depuis le XVIe s. jusqu’en 1930. En effet, le XVIe s. est le moment où le contrat d’assurance commence à concerner le monde terrestre en étant conceptualisé par des auteurs de doctrine puis en éveillant l’attention du législateur français. Cette phase qui s’étend jusqu’au milieu du XIXe s. est donc une phase de construction théorique et législative du contrat d’assurance - avec une base maritime et une tendance de plus en plus prégnante à l’installation sur terre. La période suivante commence au milieu du XIXe s. qui amorce les premiers grands changements de nature du contrat d’assurance avec l’avènement de la société industrielle, l’émergence des idées socialistes et de l’État providence. À cette occasion, doctrine et jurisprudence adaptent le contrat d’assurance aux besoins de sécurité croissants de la population. L’on peut parler d’un véritable enracinement terrestre du contrat d’assurance, car la base maritime est mise de côté tandis que la base terrestre passe au premier plan. Les adaptations et nouveautés juridiques amènent des auteurs, juges et autres praticiens à s’interroger de nouveau sur la nature du contrat d’assurance. En 1930, la première loi française sur le contrat d’assurance terrestre cristallise certaines de leurs conclusions et positions sans toutefois donner de définition ni de contours fermes au contrat d’assurance. Il demeure encore difficile d’en trouver. / Looking back through history, the very nature of the insurance contract has often been questioned. Indeed, although it started off its career with, and was developed by, the merchant shipping industry ; today it is used as a consumer product contract, strongly anchored into terrestrial reality. In order to apprehend this evolution, it would be interesting to look into what defines the criteria of an insurance contract since the 16th Century right through to 1930. During the 16th Century, the insurance contract started to be used in the terrestrial world and was drafted by the authors of the profession, and in doing so, interested the French legislators. This phase was a theoretical construction and a legislative phase for the insurance contract, which was based on the merchant shipping activity, in spite of applying to a growing number of terrestrial concerns. The next period starts in the middle of the 19th Century, whereby we start to see the first major changes to the insurance contract with the increase in industrial activities and the emergence of socialist ideas and a welfare state. At this point in time, the profession and jurisprudence adapt the insurance contract to the increasing security needs of the population. We can refer to this as a real terrestrial implantation of the insurance contract as the shipping and naval basis takes a back seat. These adaptations and new additions to the legal system make the legislators, judges and other professions concerned ; re-assess the contents of the insurance contract. In 1930, the first French law on the terrestrial insurance contract crystallizes a certain number of their conclusions and positions, without however, giving a strict definition of what an insurance contract is. It still doesn’t exist today.

Cette thèse s’intéresse au marché du crédit à Venise au XVIIIe siècle. Une partie importante de la recherche se concentre sur une offre de crédit spécifique au contexte vénitien, qui avait lieux dans les osterie (auberges) et les bastioni de la ville, des entrepôts où le vin était vendu à emporter. Le vin et l’argent étaient deux éléments intrinsèquement liés et trouvaient un point de contact dans l’activité des osti (aubergistes) et des bastioneri. Ces derniers offraient à leurs clients un service original de prêt sur gage. Ils assumaient le double rôle des fournisseurs de biens de consommation de base et de créanciers, devenant ainsi des figures incontournables dans le contexte urbain, en particulier pour les membres des couches les plus pauvres. L’un des éléments les plus intéressants est la manière dont les intérêts sur les prêts étaient perçus, puisque les créanciers tiraient profit du fait qu’un tiers de la valeur totale des crédits était payé en vin. La valeur faible des prêts confirme que ce service s’adressait principalement aux classes les plus fragiles de la société, c’est à dire les principaux protagonistes de ce que nous avons appelé l’économie ‘du mouchoir’. Il s’agissait surtout d’individus pauvres mais pas ‘très pauvres’, ceux qui n’avaient pas de grandes réserves d’argent et qui étaient vulnérables en raison de l’irrégularité de leurs revenus. Les objectifs de la recherche sont principalement au nombre de deux. Le premier consiste à analyser l’activité de crédit des bastioni et des osterie. Le second est de replacer cette organisation dans le contexte urbain, en analysant le marché dans son ensemble et en évaluant les caractéristiques et les variables qui pouvaient influencer la demande. Par conséquent, afin d’avoir une vision plus complète du marché, toutes les omposantes principales de l’offre ont été prises en considération. Outre les bastioni et les osterie mentionnés ci-dessus, les autres activités de prêts ont été analysés et comparés : l’activité des banques juives dans le Ghetto, mais aussi celle des monts-de-piété des villes de la terre ferme vénitienne, des notaires et des prêteurs privés. De cette façon il a été possible d’enquêter sur les relations existantes entre les différents circuits de crédit, et de démontrer qu’ils n’étaient pas en concurrence les uns avec les autres, mais qu’il s’agissait plutôt d’un marché segmenté. La recherche s’adresse aussi bien aux spécialistes de l’histoire vénitienne qu’aux historiens de l’économie dans d’autres contextes, en proposant une nouvelle méthodologie et un cas d’étude qui appellent à la comparaison dans d’autres villes à l’époque moderne. / This thesis analyses the credit market in Venice during the 18th century. An important part of this research focuses on a quite unique credit system, specific to the Venetian context, that was offer through the inns, or osterie, and the bastioni (warehouses where wine was sold) of the city. In 18th century Venice, wine and money were intrinsically linked through the activity of the innkeepers and the bastioneri (the managers of the bastioni), who originally offered their customers a pawnbroking service. They assumed the double roles of suppliers of basic goods and creditors, thereby becoming central economic figures in Venice’s urban context – especially for the members of the poorest classes. One of the most innovative elements of this research lies in the findings regarding the way that interest on loans was collected: creditors benefited from the fact that one-third of the total value of the transaction was paid in wine. The low average value of the loans confirms that this service was mainly aimed at the lower classes of society, the main actors in what has been defined as ‘the handkerchief economy’. Those who benefited the most from this kind of credit arrangement were essentially poor – but not too poor – people, who had only modest reserves of money, and were thus more vulnerable due to the paucity and irregularity of their income. The main objective of this research is twofold: (a) to analyze the credit activity of bastioni and osterie, and (b) to place it in the Venetian urban context. This study analyzed the Venetian credit market as a whole, and then assessed the characteristics and variables that could influence the demand for credit. Moreover, to develop a more complete view of this specific market, all the main components of the credit offer were taken into consideration. In addition to the already mentioned bastioni and osterie, the activities of Jewish bankers in the Ghetto, the monti di pietà situated on the Venetian mainland, as well as those of the notaries and the private lenders, were also analyzed and compared. In this way, it was possible to investigate the existing relationships between the different credit channels, and to determine that they were actually not in competition with one another; rather, it was discovered that they were, in fact, discretely positioned in a distinctly segmented market. This research is relevant to both specialists in Venetian history, and researchers concerned with economic history in other contexts; this study also proposes a new methodology, and a case study, useful for relative comparison by either constituency.

Die Grenzregion Oberlausitz war im 16. Jahrhundert von einer Vielfalt kultureller und urbaner Lebenswelten, von einer Vielzahl relevanter Akteure sowie von komplexen Herrschaftsbeziehungen (Nebenland der böhmischen Krone) geprägt und geriet erst in jüngster Zeit stärker ins Blickfeld der historischen Forschung. Aufbauend auf regional- und lokalhistorischen Arbeiten etwa zur frühneuzeitlichen Musikkultur der Oberlausitz, zur Geschichte der Sorben (man denke etwa an die Arbeiten von Friedrich Pollack oder Petr Hrachovec) und auf Grundlage eigener intensiver (Bild-)Quellenstudien argumentiert Martin Christ überzeugend, dass sich in der Oberlausitz eine Geschichte von Reformationen im Plural beobachten lasse, die sich in Bezug auf katholische und lutherische Akteure als Ausfluss synkretistischer Praktiken der bewussten Selektion und Adaption geteilter Räume, Rituale und Objekte beschreiben lassen. Synkretismus schließt Grenzziehungen durchaus ein und Konflikte nicht aus. Die vorliegende Studie zeichnet daher auch kein nostalgisches Bild toleranter Oberlausitzer Konfessionskulturen.

At the end of 16th century an unique document had been preparing on the Rozmberk's estates. The Description of Mills from the year 1590 registers all Rozmberk's water mills in the south part of Bohemia. Thanks to this Description Jaroslav Honc published in 1959 an article that dealt with the concept of zoning of Rozmberk's milling in 1590. The main goal of the master's thesis is presentation of this very interesting source and comparison reformative Rozmberk's officers' ideas with the fact emerged from the study of accounting books of Třeboň estate between years 1550 and 1615.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T21:02:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 16 / Nenhuma / Para o filósofo francês Michel Foucault, o aparecimento da figura do homem na condição de sujeito é um acontecimento recente, resultante de uma reordenação do espaço que regula a produção dos saberes, ocorrida entre os séculos XVIII e XIX. Esta reconfiguração permitiu que o homem fosse feito simultaneamente sujeito e objeto de conhecimentos com pretensão científica. De fato, segundo Foucault, até a modernidade clássica, o homem não problematizava o ato mesmo de representar; não se pensava como sujeito da representação. Somente quando foi tematizado por saberes empíricos relacionados ao seu trabalho, sua linguagem e sua vida, o homem passou a representar para si mesmo sua condição subjetiva finita. Assim, na perspectiva foucaultiana, o sujeito não possui estatuto transcendental ou essência fixa. Ele é apenas uma figura discursiva - exposta, como as demais, às determinações da linguagem - cujo surgimento e condições de existência apenas uma arqueo-genealogia, enquanto método de análise voltada para o plano disc / For the French philosopher Michel Foucault, the emergence of man as subject is a recent event, resulting from a rearrangement of the space that regulates the production of knowledge, which occurred between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This reconfiguration allowed the man was done simultaneously subject and object of knowledge with scientific pretensions. In fact, according to Foucault, until the classic modernity, the man did not question the very act of representing; did not think himself as subject of representation. Only when he was conceived by empirical knowledge related to his work, his language and his life, the man came to represent to himself his finite subjective condition. Thus, in Foucault’s perspective, the subject has no transcendental status or fixed essence. He is just a discursive figure - exposed, like others, to the determinations of language – whose emergence and conditions of existence only an archeo-genealogy, as a method of analysis focused in the discursive level, may discl

This diploma thesis deals with the research of communication between the town council of České Budějovice and representatives of the lower nobility between 1581 and 1584 and later with the interruption from 1602 to 1604. Its aim is to describe the content of mutual correspondence and interpret it in the context of the history of the South Bohemian region. It presents a typology of correspondence in order to identify the most common topics that occurred in the mutual communication of the city council and representatives of the lower nobility. The specific arguments used by the councilors of České Budějovice also became the subject of interest. This approach helped to clarify the identity that the burghers represented through the documents of the city office. Finally, it examines the settlement of representatives of the lower nobility. It was reconstructed using data from correspondence and tax registers. In conclusion, the thesis summarizes the findings and offers possible directions that could be followed in future research.

Den här uppsatsen ämnar att undersöka Anders Behring Breiviks manifest i samband med det moderna samhället och den situation som detta sätter individen i.Med hjälp av Erich Fromms tankar kring friheten och flyktmekanismer, Thomas Ziehesnarcissism och kulturell friställning och Giddens teori kring självidentiteten i den senmoderna epoken försöker jag nå förklaringar till hur Breivik kunde nå de slutsatser han gjorde. Analysen av det utdrag ur manifestet som är uppsatsens material utifrån vilka värden Breivik vill försvara och vilka fiender som hotar dessa. Resultatet är att det är ett flertal fiender som hotar de värden Breivik vill försvara och att det måste till en analys ur ett individ-, kultur- och systemperspektiv för att nå en tillfredställande förklaring. Breivik förstås utifrån den auktoritära karaktären som enbart ser relationer mellan människor som positioner av under- eller överläge, genom de kulturella förutsättningar som finns i samhället samt genom att han inte utvecklat den tillit som Giddens anser är grunden för att människor kan verka i en alltmer riskabel tillvaro. / This paper aims to examine the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik and put it in thecontext of modern society and the situation that the individual is in.Using Erich Fromms thoughts about freedom and escape mechanisms, Thomas Ziehesnarcissism and cultural and Giddens theory about self-identity in the late modern age I try to reach explanations about how Breivik could reach the conclussions he did.The analysis of a part of the manifesto, which is the papers material, about which valuesBreivik wants to defend and which the enemies are that threatened these. The result is that there are a number of enemies which threaten these values that Breivik wants to defend and that an analysis from a individual-, cultural and system perspectives is required to reach a satisfying explaination.Breivik is understood from the view of the authoritarian character who only sees human relations as positions of dominance or subordinance, through the cultural presets that exist in society and through not developing the trust that Giddens sees as the foundations on which humans stand to cope with life in increasingly risky enviroment.

The diploma thesis deals with the everyday image of the wars in the 16th and early 17th Century. The medieval ideal of "miles christianus" still permeated the thinking of an early modern nobleman and influenced his life. There were several noblemen who devoted their lives to the war. On the other hand, the analysis of preserved correspondence portrayed a conflict between the ideal and reality. The result showed the lack of interest in the war campaigns. Historical-anthropological point of view allowed to look at the individuals and their behaviour methods, which should have helped them to avoid a campaign. A typology of individual letters was emphasized. It became the basis for determination of the strategies used by nobility. The main concern of this thesis was, by using the methodology of collective mentalities, to reconstruct the thinking of early modern noblemen, who were no longer able to behave according to the standards. It tries to create a collective biography, where several demands set the behavioral traits of noble absentee.