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Strašidelní „zlí páni“ optikou lidových pověstí

Chalupová, Helena (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)

The paper examines some real personalities in the Early Modern-Age Czech history who appear inlegends as revenants (Jiří Tunkl of Brníčko and Zábřeh, Zdeněk senior Kavka Říčanský of Říčany, RudolfKarel Rašín of Rýzmburk). ...
Písmák jako sociokulturní typ

Beneš, Zdeněk; Nocuń, Przemysław (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)

The paper examines the phenomenon of the peasant scribe, who can be characterised as a ‘transitional’type of the country man of learning in the process of modernisation of Czech society in the18th and the first half of the ...
František J. Vavák a Píseň o králi Bavorovi

Maur, Eduard (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)

The War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) met with an extraordinary response in the periodchronicle entries and in song lyrics. With a few exceptions these songs express resistance to the enemiesof Maria Theresa, save ...
Economy and population of an Early Modern village: Milčice — home of the most famous Bohemian peasant F. J. Vavák

Klír, Tomáš; Vodáková, Dana (Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)

The aim of the study is to provide basic socio-economic and demographic characteristics of Milčicein the 18th century, and thus create the prerequisites both for an adequate interpretation of Vavák’sMemoirs and for the ...