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The present PhD thesis examines the reception of Humanism and the Renaissance in Czech print culture between 1476 and 1547. Critically, it opposes the predominant interpretation line that - from National Revival to post-war marxist literary criticism - tried to preserve at all costs a magnificent picture of the 16th century as a "golden age". The study is based on Petr Voit's recent works on Czech book printing of the first half of the 16th century and follows the reception of Humanism and the Renaissance from a complex point of view (printers' profiles, typography, illustrations and ornaments, readers' reception). The analysis shows that during the period under review, the Czech society, which predominantly professed a reformed confession (utraquism, lutheranism, the Unity of Brethren...), lived in a self-centered religious messianism, and therefore rejected any cultural novelties, especially those coming from Italy as the hometown of the hated papacy. Book printing largely reflected the conservatism and moral rigorism of this mainly utraquist society that ignored the entertainment literature, considered unnecessary or even undesirable. In this rigid religious scheme, the Renaissance literary genres (Petrarchan poetry, novella, epic poem, etc.) and the humanist text-critical approach to ancient...

The thesis "The book printers Jiří Jakubův Dačický and Jan Othmar Jakubův Dačický" deals with the lives and printing activities of the named book printers, who worked in the Old Town in Prague at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. The thesis is based on the primary and secondary sources and preserved old prints from their production. Its aim is to clarify unknown parts of the history of the book printing in Prague and to discuss its unjustly neglected printing workshops. The text is divided into five main parts. The first one deals with the careers of the named printers and with the analysis of their private and professional lives. The second part interests in their printing production. The prints were divided into thematic groups and described according to literary-historical and library scientifical aspects. The studied prints were examined in their relationship to their previous and subsequent publications by other printers, too. The third part is the typological- typographical analysis. Here the autor focuses on typographical form of the prints, used typesetting, decorating, etc. The aim was not only to register used typographical material of the studied printers in time, but also to find out how much these (and possibly other contemporary) printing works cooperated,...

Presented work tries to reflect the structure of human world, which is able to create an overman as an artificial intelligence through its self-destructive tendency. It investigates the possibilities of our imagination and if we are able to think about artificial intelligence as a sui generis continuation of human species. Hand in hand it tries to create a tension between particular ethico-political decisions and subsequent binding structure, which they implies.

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The Master's thesis follows professional work of Jaroslav Pospisil. Briefly presented the Pospisil's family from Jan Hostivít Pospisil, who founded the family business, to Jaroslav's successor Jaroslav Pospisil junior. Considerable attention will be paid to the composition of the editorial program. It will not be missed out nor Pospíšil's social functions, eg. Association of booksellers and and publishers. Keywords: Publishing houses, book printing, bookstore, publishers and publishing, booksellers, book culture, publishers' catalogs, books, culture and society, fading