Bohemia in the Merovingian age - end of the 5th - 6th century AD Rastislav Korený Mining Museum Příbram Abstract The following objectives have been pursued in the dissertation: 1. A new commented inventory of sites from the end of the 5th and 6th century (excluding coin finds) which should become a reliable basis for an analysis of the collected material. The last inventory of such kind was created by Bedřich Svoboda approximately sixty years ago, i.e. in the 1940-1950s, and it was not published until 1965. The need for a new revised inventory became apparent over the recent years. During the physical re-evaluation of earlier finds and related primary visual and textual documentation, which was carried out in the years 1996- 2013 (30 museum and non-museum collections, 4 separate archival collections and other information sources were revised), there was a striking discrepancy between the published data contained in the catalogue of the above mentioned monograph and reality. The excavations carried out after 1965 also, naturally, resulted in the expansion of the amount of available source material. 2. Because the material currently available from settlements was published by Ivana Pleinerová in 2007, the analysis of the collected data concentrated, in addition to the identification of chronologically more...

Diploma thesis "Renaissance Painting Decoration of Coffered Ceilings in Selected Castles in Bohemia" first briefly introduces the most important examples of aristocratic residences with painted coffered ceilings in Bohemia. Painted coffered ceilings in Bohemia primarily occurred in the main halls of castles and palaces in the second half of the 16th century. The main part of thesis deals with two noble residences with painted coffered ceilings. Deal with detailed ceiling paintings Knights' Hall in the castle Telč and ceiling paintings of four halls Častolovice chateau. Attention is focused on themes ceiling paintings, their description and comparison with graphic templates. To the present day we have original coffered ceiling Knight Hall Castle in Telč with subjects from classical mythology (Hercules deeds). The author of the iconographic program was probably Zacharias of Hradec (1527-1589), who was one of the most powerful aristocrats in the Kingdom of Bohemia, and had the opportunity during his trip to northern Italy in 1551 acquainted with Italian art. The pride of the Častolovice chateau is especially large main hall with a coffered ceiling with 24 scenes from the Old Testament and other smaller hall with biblical scenes. This hall adjoin two smaller rooms with painted coffered ceilings with...

Am 28. März 1885 fand in Plzeň/Pilsen die Uraufführung von Dvořáks Kantate Svatební košile (Die Geisterbraut) statt, eine allgemein bekannte Tatsache, die wahrscheinlich niemanden überraschen wird. Überraschender kann jedoch die Feststellung sein, dass die Orchesterparts von einer Militärkapelle einstudiert worden waren. Wie war eigentlich die gesellschaftliche Rolle der Militärklangkörper im 19. Jahrhundert? Wie und wodurch bildeten oder belehrten die Militärkapellen die Bevölkerung Böhmens und Mährens im Strom des sich formenden Nationalbewusstseins? Und falls dies wirklich geschah, worin wurzelte diese Fähigkeit?

This diploma thesis interprets the anonymous Inventory of Chamber Compositions, which is held in the Archives and Library of Prague Conservatory. It informs about the conditions of performing the repertory from this source between 1843 and 1864. In comparison with other sources the author of this manuscript was identified. His biography is contained in the second chapter. The content of the manuscript is analyzed and compared with the repertory performed in other bourgeios houses and Prague public concerts. Apart from the relevant literature the period critical concert reviews and further archive sources are taken into consideration. The discovered Inventory of the compositions performed in JUDr. František Švestka's house is one of the few sources which prove reception of similarly demanding repertory among non-professional instrumentalists in the 19th century. Key words: 19th century, Prague, chamber music, music societies, non-professional musicians, František Švestka, Moritz Mildner, music in salons, concert programmes, the Bohemia journal

The diploma thesis deals with the less known type of advertising - the social advertising. The social advertising uses mostly emotional appeals to raise awareness about societal problems, bad habits of people and strives for the behavioural change aiming to make the contemporary world better. The diploma thesis consists of a theoretical and a practical part, whilst the theoretical part offers a comprehensive view not only on the social advertising but partly on the advertising in general as well. It explains the term of social advertising, compares it to the commercial advertising, describes its historical development and defines the subjects of the social advertising. The theoretical part further explains how the social advertising influences the society, which is mostly done by the emotional expression of the given problem and by advertising appeals. Approached are also the specific advertising campaigns - by the most common typologisation of social advertising themes. The research was conducted using surveys aiming to find out whether there are any differences in the awareness of social advertising by students of the HSS SBU and the FE SBU all together with finding out whether it is possible to talk about a higher social advertising influence on students of the HSS SBU. The results were in accordance with these hypothesises which can prove the existence of knowledge differences of students about the social advertising based on their field of study and the fact that the social advertising has bigger influence on students of the health and social fields of study. Answers of respondents from both faculties were often different. On the other hand, students from both HSS SBU and FE SBU have shown the same answers regarding the attitude towards the social advertising. It is possible to make a statement that the social advertising seems beneficial to both HSS SBU and FE SBU students as well and they would like to be in contact with it more often. The students of HSS SBU have chosen to perform the helping professions for their carrier which demands also personal traits that can be e.g. the social feeling and the desire to help. The research brought the finding, that the students care about the social problems and that the social advertising fulfils its purpose which is raising awareness about the societal problems that should get known by people this way.

After Jagiellonian dynasty ascended to the throne of Bohemia and especially at the time of permanent absence of the King in the land, the political ambitions of the estates of Bohemia, particularly the lords and knights, intensified. The estates strived, among other things, for codification of the land constitution which they succeeded in the beginning of the 16th century when the King issued the so-called Land Constitution of Vladislaus II. (Vladislavské zřízení zemské). At the same time, the estates also made an inventory of archives of the Crown deposited at Karlštejn castle, which is known as the Matouš of Chlumčany's Registry of Ten Coffers (Registrum desíti truhlic). These documents prove the power of bohemian nobility, who attempted to consolidate their position in judicial and administrational system of the country. At the same time they represented themselves as co-responsible political unit, alongside the King, which works for the good of the Kingdom and the whole Lands of the Bohemian Crown. My diploma thesis pursues the gradual growth of power of the bohemian nobility, who wanted to consolidate their position not only at the expense of royal cities, but also of the power of the King himself. The accent is mainly given to the most influential persons or aristocratic groups who...

The thesis are concerned with the project Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung at the area of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in term of the organisation, the everyday life and the educational strategy of National Socialism. The authoress is interested in war experience of the children in the KLV camps and the post-war comemoration of KLV as well.

This submitted thesis summarizes archaeological data about Iron Age and roman period settlement activity in the area of Tuchlovický potok downstream. Main focus is given to the elaboration of archaeological excavations, which were carried out in the years 1967 and 1968 by A. Knor and J. Zeman. The excavations followed up a large drain trench between Tuchlovice and Srby (district Kladno, Central Bohemia), where K. Motyková detected in the year 1966 the rests of roman period settlement with organic finds. Thirteen probes unearthed relatively widely spread rests of settlement, which was probably buried by a flood. The analysis of pottery sherds allows dating of the excavated settlement mainly to the 1.st century AD. Sampled wooden finds were submitted to dendrochronological surveys, but the recorded tree ring curve didn't match any so far known. Most important finds are a part of wooden fence and a piece from composite wooden jar. Other wooden artifacts and finds do not allow any functional interpretation. The research carried pointed to a great potential of this site for answering a wide spectrum of questions about prehistorical settlement sites and their relation to environment. The excavations also brought some rarely found organic finds like pollen, rests of plants and some other.

(in English) Present dissertation deals with historical-linguistic analysis of the eighteen German written documents in interval of the years 1364 - 1517, that are divided into two six royal and twelve municipal documents, whose contents is connected with the town Loket. The first part of the work is specialized in general introduction of the condition of research in this field of history, diplomatic materials of the town, history of the town and the issues of chanceries. The second part is based on documentary materials and it incorporated the analysis of macro and micro- structure. The macro-structure analysis is based on, according to using formulae, model structure of analysed documents, that is consequently used as a starting structure for analysis of micro-structure. Micro-structure analysis provides the way, which the linguistic means are in particular parts formulated. From results of my work is evident, that the structure of the documents keeps the reliable example that is a bit different from initial structure. Structure of the royal documents shows, in contrary to the municipal documents, bigger stability both in arrangement and using formulae as well as their language formulations. Klíčová slova (anglicky): German Language, History-Linguistics, Documents, History (until 1526), Bohemia

In my Master's thesis I described in detail the historical process of war criminal Karl Hermann Frank. He was a man who had been influencing the main events in the Czech lands for many years. I divided the thesis in ten chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the personality of K. H. Frank. I tried to briefly describe all the life's milestones of a man justly sentenced to death for his crimes against the Czechoslovak state. In the second and third chapter I focused on two men who played a very important role in the process and extradition of K. H. Frank, Kamill Resler and Bohuslav Ečer. In subsequent chapters I fully dealt with the process itself, from the very start through the daily courses of the trial to the verdict. In conclusion I summarized findings from the process and answer the question about the objectivity of proceedings against the accused.