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Papers by Robert Antonín

Research paper thumbnail of PETER OF ZITTAU. Life and Personality of a High Medieval Chronicler in the Context of his Narrative Strategies

Bohemia Vol. 63 No. 1 (2023) , 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Církev a společnost v českých zemích v procesu "Velké změny".

Mikuláš Netík, Martin Wihoda, eds.. Morava v proměnách dlouhého 13. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2023., 2023

Kapitola je věnována otázce postavení církve ve společnosti v českých zemích ve vrcholném středov... more Kapitola je věnována otázce postavení církve ve společnosti v českých zemích ve vrcholném středověku. Pozornost je věnována mocenským vztahům mezi světskou a církevní mocí, úloze pražského a olomouckého biskupství v transformačním procesu, proměnám a roli farní sítě, správě a církevním desátkům v době „velké změny“. Zmíněna je i otázka každodenního života českého kléru a jeho údajná proměna po oficiálním přijetí reformních myšlenek IV. lateránského koncilu v dlouhém časovém horizontu až do poloviny 14. století.

Research paper thumbnail of Pre-, intra-, and postbellum Rites in High and Late Medieval Bohemia

Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West Volume 2: Central and Eastern Europe Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture, Volume: 24/2 Volume Editors: Radosław Kotecki , Jacek Maciejewski , and Gregory Leighton, 2023

Text focuses on medieval Bohemia, taking a broad approach to the present of pre-, intra-, and ... more Text focuses on medieval Bohemia, taking a broad approach to the present of pre-, intra-, and post-battle rituals from the thirteenth century and into the sixteenth. Antonín’s contribution convincingly highlights that although considerable research has been carried out on these phenomena with respect to the early history of Bohemia, there remains considerable work to be done with respect to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Research paper thumbnail of The Foreign Policy of the Last Přemyslids A First Attempt at Unifying Central Europe?

Unions and Divisions: New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Eds. Paul Srodecki, Norbert Kersken, Rimvydas Petrauskas. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. s. 143-157. Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History.

The expansionist foreign policy of the last Premyslids during the second half of the thirteenth c... more The expansionist foreign policy of the last Premyslids during the second half of the thirteenth century continues to attract interest from historians even today. At the beginning of 1270, Ottokar exploited the unstable position of the patriarch of Aquileia, becoming the protector of his territory. The Bohemian king's power extended as far as the region of Pordenone in Upper Italy, and de facto to the shores of the Adriatic. The question remains whether or not the last Premyslids’ expansionist policy was motivated by a genuine attempt to create an extensive Central European empire which could be considered a precursor to “Jagiellonian Europe” or the gradually centralising Habsburg monarchy. From an economic perspective, the Premyslids’ expansion had another important dimension: both Ottokar and Wenceslas attempted to gain access to Europe-wide trade roues which bypassed Bohemia and Moravia.

Research paper thumbnail of The Rhetoric of the Crusades and Anti-Paganism in the Political Propaganda of Ottokar II Premislas of Bohemia

The Expansion of the Faith: Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages, ed. Paul Srodecki and Norbert Kersken, Outremer 14 (Turnhout, 2021), pp. 291-302., 2021

In the Middle Ages, monarchs were expected to act as defenders of the true Christian faith and to... more In the Middle Ages, monarchs were expected to act as defenders of the true Christian faith and to engage in an active struggle against non-believers; indeed, these activities were considered to be core aspects of the medieval monarchic ideal.1 This study attempts to answer an apparently simple question: did King Ottokar II Premislas of Bohemia genuinely fulfil these requirements in his actual political deeds, or was his image as a defender of the Christian faith merely created as part of a propaganda machine run by intellectuals who were active in the king’s service and at the royal court? In the first part of the study, I trace the development of Ottokar II’s literary-historical image over the course of many centuries (reaching up to the present day). In the second part I characterise the role played by the rhetoric of the crusades and anti-paganism in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown under Ottokar, situating his reign within the broader context of the Přemyslids’ involvement in the crusades.

Research paper thumbnail of The Ritual Practice of Power in Bohemia during the 14th century

Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe. Eds. Grischa Vercamer and Dušan Zupka . Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2021. s. 160-177. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 78., 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Bishop Andrew of Prague and Church in Medieval Czech Lands after the Fourth Lateran Council

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2020

The paper focuses on the personal actions of Bishop Andrew of Prague and the situation within the... more The paper focuses on the personal actions of Bishop Andrew of Prague and the situation within the church in the Czech Lands after the Fourth Lateran Council. Andrew is a central representative in the process of immediate reception of the Fourth Lateran Council in the Czech Lands. Previous research has focused on the fundamental question of Andrews’s episcopate: his conflict with King Ottokar I regarding the church reforms introduced in the Czech Lands between 1216 and 1222. However, it is necessary to study the conflict in a long-term perspective (from the middle of the twelfth till the end of the thirteenth centu¬ries) and in the context of the promotion of the patronage law, the judicial exemption of clergy, and the enforcement of church control over tithes. The analysis shows that the church was a strongly decentralized institution controlled by local lay elites and damaged by nepotism. The private life of the clergy was corrupted by concubinage and, resulting from that, we can see attempts to create “clerical dynasties.” The route to a change only began with Bishop Andrew and the implementation of the change would not have been possible without the overall transformations of the political, economic, social and mental structures.

Research paper thumbnail of „Pro remedio anime fratris mei...“ Několik poznámek ke zbožnosti české šlechty vrcholného středověku

Pro pana profesora Libora Janak životnímu jubileu. K vydání připraviliBronislav Chocholáč, Jiří Malíř, Lukáš Reitinger a Martin Wihoda. Brno., 2020

In this study the author considers the phenomenon of piety and the belief in the p... more In this study the author considers the phenomenon of piety and the belief in the possibility of influencing posthumous salvation among the members of the medieval elite in the high-medieval Czech lands and the question of to what extent personal piety merged with their pragmatic-economic decision-making. It shows that economic, memorial, prestigious and religious activities did not mutually disturb one another in the mentality of medieval man, and during the 13th century the Bohemian and Moravian secular elites became more concerned about the afterlife of the soul and its salvation.

Research paper thumbnail of Mendikanti a české země za vlády posledních Přemyslovců

Časopis Matice moravské, 2019

In this text the author attempts to create a comprehensive picture of the expansion and subsequen... more In this text the author attempts to create a comprehensive picture of the expansion and subsequent activities of the Dominicans and Minorites in the Czech Lands in the 13th century, following this problem not only at the chronological level, but also looking at the issue of the relationship of the new orders to the individual layers of Czech and Moravian society. One of the main ideas in the text is a thesis on the exclusive relationship of the mendicant orders to the sovereign, his family and the representatives of the inner court. In addition, the text also looks at the tension between the mendicant orders and other representatives of the clergy and, along with this, and the transformation in piety among members of the higher social classes, reflected in their direct support for the mendicant orders. In the study, the growth of the mendicant orders in the Czech Lands is set in the wider context of the spread of the new piety and is interpreted as a social impact of the results of the Fourth Lateran Council

Research paper thumbnail of Chronica Aulae regiae—an Unsuccessful Attempt to Establish an Official Memory of the Last Přemyslids and the Zbraslav Monastery

The Medieval Chronicle , 2019

The present article aims to introduce new approaches to the work of the Zbraslav Cistercians, inv... more The present article aims to introduce new approaches to the work of the Zbraslav Cistercians, involving two interrelated levels: (1) it characterizes the Zbraslav Chronicle (Chronica Aulae regiae) as the result of efforts to create a place of memory for the last Přemyslid kings, especially Wenceslas II (1283–1305), and focuses on forms of fixation of collective memory used by the Zbraslav chroniclers; (2) it attempts to find out if these efforts of the Zbraslav chroniclers were successful. Methodologically, the analysis is based on the concept of collective memory expounded by Maurice Halbwachs. Other methodological impulses are drawn from the theories of Otto Gerhard Oexle, Jan Assmann and Pierre Nora; especially the latter’s concept of ‘realms of memory’ is developed. As ‘realms of memory’ one can consider also books or texts that—as great moments—stabilize historical (i.e. non-viable) memory. In the present study, the Zbraslav Chronicle is perceived as a work created with the ambition to establish an authoritative interpretation of Central European history at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Research paper thumbnail of Akteure und Mechanismen in der Außenpolitik der letzten Přemysliden Akteure mittelalterlicher Außenpolitik: Das Beispiel Ostmitteleuropas

Research paper thumbnail of Ojciec i syn. Wacław I i Przemysł Otokar II.pdf

Ojcowie i synowie O tron, władzę, dziedzictwo. W 700. rocznicę narodzin Karola IV Luksemburskiego króla czeskiego i cesarza 1316–1378. Edd. Anna Paner – Beata Możejko. Gdańsk., 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Od bojovníka k rytíři – na okraj úvah o proměně českých zemí ve vrcholném středověku / From a warrior to a knight – incidental remarks on the transformation of the Czech lands in the High Middle Ages

PRAEHISTORICA 34/1, 2018.

The study analyses the spreading of the chivalric culture of transformation in the Czech lands of... more The study analyses the spreading of the chivalric culture of transformation in the Czech lands of the Middle Ages. The author presents an attempt at a revision of the current state of research, within which the investigation of chivalry is methodologically subjected to the interpretive model of the so-called “Central European type of state”. The core of the text is comprised by reflections on the process of the genesis of chivalric culture in the Czech lands as one of the manifestations of cultural transfer. The author understands the spreading of chivalry in Bohemia as an evidence of the transformation of the mental world of the nobility and of its self-identification. Contrary to the previous research, the text presents a hypothesis shifting the acceptance of the chivalric cultural code to the beginning of the 12th century, thus to a significant extent erasing in this aspect the artificially created boundaries between the West European and the Central and East European regions in the medieval period.

Research paper thumbnail of DRUHÝ ŽIVOT ZBRASLAVSKÉ KRONIKY v historiografické reflexi od 14. do konce 18. století (The Second Life of the Zbraslav Chronicle in Historiographical Reflection from the 14th to the end of the 18th Centuries)

Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica, 2017

The text is devoted to the preservation and reception of the Zbraslav Chronicle in the Czech hist... more The text is devoted to the preservation and reception of the Zbraslav Chronicle in the Czech historiography
of the 14th-18th centuries. Besides the actual knowledge of the existence of this treatise,
the impact of the narrative strategy of Peter of Zittau is predominantly observed in the works
of the individual historiographers in the indicated period, mainly then in the opuses by Francis of
Prague, Václav Hájek of Libočany, Bohuslav Balbín and Tomáš Pešina of Čechorod.

Research paper thumbnail of S kým se přel biskup Ondřej? K meandrům v právní krajině Čech na počátku 13. století na základě "známého" příběhu

Research paper thumbnail of Das Herrscherbild in böhmischen narrativen Quellen des Hochmittelalters. Zwiβchen Ideal und Bildungspraxis

The study focuses on the role of the ideal of sovereign's power in the medieval education system ... more The study focuses on the role of the ideal of sovereign's power in the medieval education system in the Czech lands in the high Middle Ages. The issue is focused on the basis of the analyse of narrative sources of 14th century.

Research paper thumbnail of Der Weg nach Osten. Heinrich VII. und der Erwerb Böhmens für die Luxemburger

Rom 1312. Die Kaiserkrönung Heinrichs VII. und die Folgen. Die Luxemburger als Herrscherdynastie von gesamteuropäischer Bedeutung. Herausgegeben von Sabine Penth und Peter Thorau. BÖHLAU VERLAG: KÖLN · WEIMAR · WIEN 2016, s. 9-21.

Research paper thumbnail of Urbánní struktura pozdně středověké Moravy (Städtebund, Städtenetz či Städtelandschaft?) (Urban structures of late medieval Moravia (Städtebund, Städtenetz or Städtelandschaft?))

Archivum amicus historici est: sborník k životnímu jubileu Hany Jordánkové (red. Radana Červená), s. 108–123 , 2015

Research paper thumbnail of From Warrior to Knight: The Paths of Chivalric Culture in Central European Space Using the Example of the Bohemian Lands

Research paper thumbnail of Antonín, R.: Hnězdenská korunovace krále Václava II. v kontextu jeho zahraniční politiky na počátku 14. století.

In: Gnieźnieńskie koronacje królewskie i ich środkowoeuropejskie kontexty (J. Dobosz, M. Matla, L. Wetesko), Instytut Historii UAM, Gniezno 2011, s. 253-271.

Research paper thumbnail of PETER OF ZITTAU. Life and Personality of a High Medieval Chronicler in the Context of his Narrative Strategies

Bohemia Vol. 63 No. 1 (2023) , 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Církev a společnost v českých zemích v procesu "Velké změny".

Mikuláš Netík, Martin Wihoda, eds.. Morava v proměnách dlouhého 13. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2023., 2023

Kapitola je věnována otázce postavení církve ve společnosti v českých zemích ve vrcholném středov... more Kapitola je věnována otázce postavení církve ve společnosti v českých zemích ve vrcholném středověku. Pozornost je věnována mocenským vztahům mezi světskou a církevní mocí, úloze pražského a olomouckého biskupství v transformačním procesu, proměnám a roli farní sítě, správě a církevním desátkům v době „velké změny“. Zmíněna je i otázka každodenního života českého kléru a jeho údajná proměna po oficiálním přijetí reformních myšlenek IV. lateránského koncilu v dlouhém časovém horizontu až do poloviny 14. století.

Research paper thumbnail of Pre-, intra-, and postbellum Rites in High and Late Medieval Bohemia

Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West Volume 2: Central and Eastern Europe Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture, Volume: 24/2 Volume Editors: Radosław Kotecki , Jacek Maciejewski , and Gregory Leighton, 2023

Text focuses on medieval Bohemia, taking a broad approach to the present of pre-, intra-, and ... more Text focuses on medieval Bohemia, taking a broad approach to the present of pre-, intra-, and post-battle rituals from the thirteenth century and into the sixteenth. Antonín’s contribution convincingly highlights that although considerable research has been carried out on these phenomena with respect to the early history of Bohemia, there remains considerable work to be done with respect to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Research paper thumbnail of The Foreign Policy of the Last Přemyslids A First Attempt at Unifying Central Europe?

Unions and Divisions: New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Eds. Paul Srodecki, Norbert Kersken, Rimvydas Petrauskas. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. s. 143-157. Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History.

The expansionist foreign policy of the last Premyslids during the second half of the thirteenth c... more The expansionist foreign policy of the last Premyslids during the second half of the thirteenth century continues to attract interest from historians even today. At the beginning of 1270, Ottokar exploited the unstable position of the patriarch of Aquileia, becoming the protector of his territory. The Bohemian king's power extended as far as the region of Pordenone in Upper Italy, and de facto to the shores of the Adriatic. The question remains whether or not the last Premyslids’ expansionist policy was motivated by a genuine attempt to create an extensive Central European empire which could be considered a precursor to “Jagiellonian Europe” or the gradually centralising Habsburg monarchy. From an economic perspective, the Premyslids’ expansion had another important dimension: both Ottokar and Wenceslas attempted to gain access to Europe-wide trade roues which bypassed Bohemia and Moravia.

Research paper thumbnail of The Rhetoric of the Crusades and Anti-Paganism in the Political Propaganda of Ottokar II Premislas of Bohemia

The Expansion of the Faith: Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages, ed. Paul Srodecki and Norbert Kersken, Outremer 14 (Turnhout, 2021), pp. 291-302., 2021

In the Middle Ages, monarchs were expected to act as defenders of the true Christian faith and to... more In the Middle Ages, monarchs were expected to act as defenders of the true Christian faith and to engage in an active struggle against non-believers; indeed, these activities were considered to be core aspects of the medieval monarchic ideal.1 This study attempts to answer an apparently simple question: did King Ottokar II Premislas of Bohemia genuinely fulfil these requirements in his actual political deeds, or was his image as a defender of the Christian faith merely created as part of a propaganda machine run by intellectuals who were active in the king’s service and at the royal court? In the first part of the study, I trace the development of Ottokar II’s literary-historical image over the course of many centuries (reaching up to the present day). In the second part I characterise the role played by the rhetoric of the crusades and anti-paganism in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown under Ottokar, situating his reign within the broader context of the Přemyslids’ involvement in the crusades.

Research paper thumbnail of The Ritual Practice of Power in Bohemia during the 14th century

Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe. Eds. Grischa Vercamer and Dušan Zupka . Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2021. s. 160-177. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 78., 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Bishop Andrew of Prague and Church in Medieval Czech Lands after the Fourth Lateran Council

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2020

The paper focuses on the personal actions of Bishop Andrew of Prague and the situation within the... more The paper focuses on the personal actions of Bishop Andrew of Prague and the situation within the church in the Czech Lands after the Fourth Lateran Council. Andrew is a central representative in the process of immediate reception of the Fourth Lateran Council in the Czech Lands. Previous research has focused on the fundamental question of Andrews’s episcopate: his conflict with King Ottokar I regarding the church reforms introduced in the Czech Lands between 1216 and 1222. However, it is necessary to study the conflict in a long-term perspective (from the middle of the twelfth till the end of the thirteenth centu¬ries) and in the context of the promotion of the patronage law, the judicial exemption of clergy, and the enforcement of church control over tithes. The analysis shows that the church was a strongly decentralized institution controlled by local lay elites and damaged by nepotism. The private life of the clergy was corrupted by concubinage and, resulting from that, we can see attempts to create “clerical dynasties.” The route to a change only began with Bishop Andrew and the implementation of the change would not have been possible without the overall transformations of the political, economic, social and mental structures.

Research paper thumbnail of „Pro remedio anime fratris mei...“ Několik poznámek ke zbožnosti české šlechty vrcholného středověku

Pro pana profesora Libora Janak životnímu jubileu. K vydání připraviliBronislav Chocholáč, Jiří Malíř, Lukáš Reitinger a Martin Wihoda. Brno., 2020

In this study the author considers the phenomenon of piety and the belief in the p... more In this study the author considers the phenomenon of piety and the belief in the possibility of influencing posthumous salvation among the members of the medieval elite in the high-medieval Czech lands and the question of to what extent personal piety merged with their pragmatic-economic decision-making. It shows that economic, memorial, prestigious and religious activities did not mutually disturb one another in the mentality of medieval man, and during the 13th century the Bohemian and Moravian secular elites became more concerned about the afterlife of the soul and its salvation.

Research paper thumbnail of Mendikanti a české země za vlády posledních Přemyslovců

Časopis Matice moravské, 2019

In this text the author attempts to create a comprehensive picture of the expansion and subsequen... more In this text the author attempts to create a comprehensive picture of the expansion and subsequent activities of the Dominicans and Minorites in the Czech Lands in the 13th century, following this problem not only at the chronological level, but also looking at the issue of the relationship of the new orders to the individual layers of Czech and Moravian society. One of the main ideas in the text is a thesis on the exclusive relationship of the mendicant orders to the sovereign, his family and the representatives of the inner court. In addition, the text also looks at the tension between the mendicant orders and other representatives of the clergy and, along with this, and the transformation in piety among members of the higher social classes, reflected in their direct support for the mendicant orders. In the study, the growth of the mendicant orders in the Czech Lands is set in the wider context of the spread of the new piety and is interpreted as a social impact of the results of the Fourth Lateran Council

Research paper thumbnail of Chronica Aulae regiae—an Unsuccessful Attempt to Establish an Official Memory of the Last Přemyslids and the Zbraslav Monastery

The Medieval Chronicle , 2019

The present article aims to introduce new approaches to the work of the Zbraslav Cistercians, inv... more The present article aims to introduce new approaches to the work of the Zbraslav Cistercians, involving two interrelated levels: (1) it characterizes the Zbraslav Chronicle (Chronica Aulae regiae) as the result of efforts to create a place of memory for the last Přemyslid kings, especially Wenceslas II (1283–1305), and focuses on forms of fixation of collective memory used by the Zbraslav chroniclers; (2) it attempts to find out if these efforts of the Zbraslav chroniclers were successful. Methodologically, the analysis is based on the concept of collective memory expounded by Maurice Halbwachs. Other methodological impulses are drawn from the theories of Otto Gerhard Oexle, Jan Assmann and Pierre Nora; especially the latter’s concept of ‘realms of memory’ is developed. As ‘realms of memory’ one can consider also books or texts that—as great moments—stabilize historical (i.e. non-viable) memory. In the present study, the Zbraslav Chronicle is perceived as a work created with the ambition to establish an authoritative interpretation of Central European history at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Research paper thumbnail of Akteure und Mechanismen in der Außenpolitik der letzten Přemysliden Akteure mittelalterlicher Außenpolitik: Das Beispiel Ostmitteleuropas

Research paper thumbnail of Ojciec i syn. Wacław I i Przemysł Otokar II.pdf

Ojcowie i synowie O tron, władzę, dziedzictwo. W 700. rocznicę narodzin Karola IV Luksemburskiego króla czeskiego i cesarza 1316–1378. Edd. Anna Paner – Beata Możejko. Gdańsk., 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Od bojovníka k rytíři – na okraj úvah o proměně českých zemí ve vrcholném středověku / From a warrior to a knight – incidental remarks on the transformation of the Czech lands in the High Middle Ages

PRAEHISTORICA 34/1, 2018.

The study analyses the spreading of the chivalric culture of transformation in the Czech lands of... more The study analyses the spreading of the chivalric culture of transformation in the Czech lands of the Middle Ages. The author presents an attempt at a revision of the current state of research, within which the investigation of chivalry is methodologically subjected to the interpretive model of the so-called “Central European type of state”. The core of the text is comprised by reflections on the process of the genesis of chivalric culture in the Czech lands as one of the manifestations of cultural transfer. The author understands the spreading of chivalry in Bohemia as an evidence of the transformation of the mental world of the nobility and of its self-identification. Contrary to the previous research, the text presents a hypothesis shifting the acceptance of the chivalric cultural code to the beginning of the 12th century, thus to a significant extent erasing in this aspect the artificially created boundaries between the West European and the Central and East European regions in the medieval period.

Research paper thumbnail of DRUHÝ ŽIVOT ZBRASLAVSKÉ KRONIKY v historiografické reflexi od 14. do konce 18. století (The Second Life of the Zbraslav Chronicle in Historiographical Reflection from the 14th to the end of the 18th Centuries)

Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica, 2017

The text is devoted to the preservation and reception of the Zbraslav Chronicle in the Czech hist... more The text is devoted to the preservation and reception of the Zbraslav Chronicle in the Czech historiography
of the 14th-18th centuries. Besides the actual knowledge of the existence of this treatise,
the impact of the narrative strategy of Peter of Zittau is predominantly observed in the works
of the individual historiographers in the indicated period, mainly then in the opuses by Francis of
Prague, Václav Hájek of Libočany, Bohuslav Balbín and Tomáš Pešina of Čechorod.

Research paper thumbnail of S kým se přel biskup Ondřej? K meandrům v právní krajině Čech na počátku 13. století na základě "známého" příběhu

Research paper thumbnail of Das Herrscherbild in böhmischen narrativen Quellen des Hochmittelalters. Zwiβchen Ideal und Bildungspraxis

The study focuses on the role of the ideal of sovereign's power in the medieval education system ... more The study focuses on the role of the ideal of sovereign's power in the medieval education system in the Czech lands in the high Middle Ages. The issue is focused on the basis of the analyse of narrative sources of 14th century.

Research paper thumbnail of Der Weg nach Osten. Heinrich VII. und der Erwerb Böhmens für die Luxemburger

Rom 1312. Die Kaiserkrönung Heinrichs VII. und die Folgen. Die Luxemburger als Herrscherdynastie von gesamteuropäischer Bedeutung. Herausgegeben von Sabine Penth und Peter Thorau. BÖHLAU VERLAG: KÖLN · WEIMAR · WIEN 2016, s. 9-21.

Research paper thumbnail of Urbánní struktura pozdně středověké Moravy (Städtebund, Städtenetz či Städtelandschaft?) (Urban structures of late medieval Moravia (Städtebund, Städtenetz or Städtelandschaft?))

Archivum amicus historici est: sborník k životnímu jubileu Hany Jordánkové (red. Radana Červená), s. 108–123 , 2015

Research paper thumbnail of From Warrior to Knight: The Paths of Chivalric Culture in Central European Space Using the Example of the Bohemian Lands

Research paper thumbnail of Antonín, R.: Hnězdenská korunovace krále Václava II. v kontextu jeho zahraniční politiky na počátku 14. století.

In: Gnieźnieńskie koronacje królewskie i ich środkowoeuropejskie kontexty (J. Dobosz, M. Matla, L. Wetesko), Instytut Historii UAM, Gniezno 2011, s. 253-271.

Research paper thumbnail of Čtvrtý lateránský koncil a české země ve 13. a 14. století

Čtvrtý lateránský koncil a české země ve 13. a 14. století, 2020

The Fourth Lateran Council was one of the most important ecclesiastical assemblies of the medieva... more The Fourth Lateran Council was one of the most important ecclesiastical assemblies of the medieval era, and its decrees gradually changed the life of European society. For this reason, the authors of the book chose this council as a starting point for thinking about the overall transformation of the Czech lands in the 13th and early 14th century. Their goal is to capture the transformational dynamics of historical development in Bohemia and Moravia on the basis of the reactions of the then society to the changes that the reception of the principles of the Fourth Lateran Council necessarily brought with it.

Research paper thumbnail of The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia

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Research paper thumbnail of Collective Identity in the Context of Medieval Studies, with Robert Antonín et al.

The first text by Robert Gramsch, aims to give a short introduction into a relatively new methodo... more The first text by Robert Gramsch, aims to give a short introduction into a relatively new methodological approach to medieval sources - the social network analysis. The author suggests that the investigation of medieval social groups, of the process of their institutionalization and of the formation of their specific group consciousness can obviously benefit greatly from network analytical perspectives and methods. He stresses the fact, that if we consider medieval groups, we have to keep in mind that there is a rather diffuse boundary between informal and institutionalized forms. According to R. Gramsch’s conclusions the network theory can help to close this gap by showing the interrelation between both types and by achieving a better understanding of the circumstances, which lead to the institutionalization of groups. In the second chapter David Kalhous focuses on possibilities of research of the communication mechanisms used by the peripheral society of Bohemians to strengthen its internal integrity, local interpretations of this identity, and integration in the peripheral community through active reception of texts. Dalibor Janiš stresses the role, which played both of the Provincial Courts, Czech and also Moravian in the development of the Estates of the nobility. He draws attention to the fact, that the Provincial Courts of Justice did not only represent the judicial institutions but they were the important political forum for the nobility and as such they played the role of the expression of the collective identity of the Czech and Moravian nobility on the level of law. Przemysław Wiszewski concentrates on the problem of creation of the regional and local identity on the example of the Medieval Silesia and shows that local, regional, or even state identities existed side by side and ready to be activated in the communicative space of medieval Silesian society. Paul Srodecki focuses on the allegorical presentation of one’s own country as an antemurale Christianitatis (“forewall of Christianity”) and demonstrates this phenomenon as one of the crucial motives of self-demarcation of the Latin medieval West. He points to the fact that in Hungary, Poland and Croatia in particular, but also in the Mediterranean area, on the Iberian Peninsula and in the Baltic states, the concepts were developed from the Middle Ages onwards, which stylized these countries and societies as “forewalls/bulwarks of Christianity” – later secularized as “forewalls/bulwarks of Europe”. In the following chapter Stefan Eichert aims to discuss how archaeological research and national consciousness interact with and influence each other by means of a case study from Carinthia, a region in the south of Austria bordering Slovenia. In this context he focuses especially on the connection between modern national consciousness and early medieval ethnic identity respectively the imagination that we have of early medieval people’s identities. The book is concluded by the chapter by Michaela Antonín Malaníková, who explores the potential of social network analysis applied to the medieval urban sources of Brno, focusing on marriage strategies of late medieval power elites as one of the distinctive features of their identity.

Research paper thumbnail of Slezsko v dějinách českého státu I. Od pravěku do roku 1490. Praha 2012 (with Martin Čapský, Vratislav Janák, Pavel Kouřil and Dalibor Prix)

Research paper thumbnail of Ideální panovník českého středověku. Kulturně-historická skica z dějin středověkého myšlení (Ideal ruler of Czech Middle Ages. Cultural-historical Sketch of the History of Medieval Thought). Praha 2013

The main point of departure of the reflections proposed in this book is the understanding of the ... more The main point of departure of the reflections proposed in this book is the understanding of the ideal ruler as a cultural archetype representing one of the principles of stability in the changing world. This stabilizing role was primarily related to the ruler's direct connection with the realm of the Absolute, i.e. God. Whenever the monarch assumed this ideal by means of ritual transformation (enthronement, coronation), he became a deputy of the supernatural in the "natural" world. According to the proposed conclusions, this happened with the support of the Catholic Church, whose representatives realized the ethically binding nature of this behavior of secular rulers, who assumed relevant duties together with the consecration of their power. The text of this book is divided into ten interconnected thematic units. In the first chapter, the author attempts to present the ideal of monarchic power in a broader context of European thinking within the framework of the medieval as well as modern (scholarly) discourse. The second chapter puts together the options provided by the sources of Czech provenience and sketches the starting points of the author. In the following seven chapters (III-IX), the author puts forward reflections on several crucial issues concerning the timespan from the tenth (insofar as relevant sources are available) to the end of the fourteenth century. The issues in question are the following: the origins of monarchic power and its legitimation, the role of Saint Wenceslaus, the Antique and Biblical patterns in medieval thinking, the doctrine of the four cardinal and three theological virtues, the expressions of chivalry within the concept of the ideal ruler and the analysis of related social roles as well as the ruler's position between reality, norms and ideals. The reason for the aforementioned chronological extent is the transformation of the mental world of society in the Czech lands. This change resulted from the endeavor of Church reformers starting in the late fourteenth century and from the subsequent outbreak of the Hussite revolution. The last chapter deals with the role of the idea of the just king in the Hussite period.

Research paper thumbnail of České země za posledních Přemyslovců I. (1192–1253). Cestou proměny společnosti k vrcholně středověké monarchii. (The Bohemian Lands under the Last Přemyslids I. 1192–1253), Praha 2012.

Research paper thumbnail of Panovnické vjezdy na středověké Moravě. (Royal Entries in Moravia in the Middle Ages). Brno 2009. (with Tomáš Borovský)

Research paper thumbnail of Zahraniční politika Václava II. v letech 1283–1300. (The Foreign Policy of King Wenceslas II in 1283–1300). Brno 2009.

In the introductory parts of the submitted work I aimed at analysing the figure of King Wenceslas... more In the introductory parts of the submitted work I aimed at analysing the figure of King Wenceslas II in the narrative strategy of the Zbraslav chroniclers in two main aspects. The first presents Wenceslas as the holy founder of the Zbraslav monastery (Aula Regia), the second as an ideal ruler of the Christian West. Research in this field reveals that the image of

Research paper thumbnail of Mongol expansion and its influence on development in the Eurasian area in the 13th and 14th centuries

Research paper thumbnail of Unity and diversity of medieval (Central) Europe: Social order and its cohesive and disruptive forces_call for papers

The second biannual conference of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network, as announced at C... more The second biannual conference of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network, as announced at Central European University, Budapest in March 2014, will be organised in Olomouc (Czech Republic) by Palacký University, Olomouc and University of Ostrava, on 31 March–2 April 2016.

Research paper thumbnail of Mongolian Expansion – a View from Inside Earlier and Later Parallels of the Mongolian Empire in the Central Asian Steppes (Xianbei, Oirats) Mongolian Expansion and Cultural Development Mongolian Expansion and the Development of Central Europe

Research paper thumbnail of Unity and diversity of medieval (Central) Europe Social order and its cohesive and disruptive forces_conference programme

Second biannual conference of MECERN (Medieval Central Europe Research Network), held in Olomouc ... more Second biannual conference of MECERN (Medieval Central Europe Research Network), held in Olomouc (Czech Republic) by the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University, Olomouc and Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, on 31 March–2 April 2016.

Research paper thumbnail of Medieval European Mission and Martyrdom under the Mongolian Rule: Conceptualizing "Religion"?

Paper given at an international conference "Mongolian Expansion and Its influence on Development ... more Paper given at an international conference "Mongolian Expansion and Its influence on Development in the Eurasian Area in the 13th and 14th Centuries", 5-8. 10. 2016, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

The presentation strived to contribute to the discussion about medieval development of thinking about “religion” by exploring selected Christian missionary accounts about non-Christians in Mongolian empire. What kind of terminological and conceptual problems were the Christian missionaries facing when describing Asian religions? The contact with religious plurality in these areas, together with missionary zeal, encouraged new ways of thinking about “religion”, which challenged the existing terminology concerning “religion” (terms lex, secta, fides, ritus). Analyses of missionary terminology and descriptions of various “religions” reveals a tendency to implicitly accept general comparability of Christianity with non-Christian traditions. The presentation mapped certain problems that the missionaries had to face and suggests, that this experience with religious plurality provoked thinking about "religion" as general category.

Research paper thumbnail of Early Polities of Peripheral Medieval Europe: Alternatives to Feudalism or its Variations?

This seminar devoted to political and social structure of peripheral societies of Early Medieval ... more This seminar devoted to political and social structure of peripheral societies of Early Medieval Europe will be organized on September 15, 2022 by Polish Philosophical Society, Poznań Chapter and Department of Epistemology and Cognitive Sciens from Faculty of Philosophy in Adam Mickiewicz University in cooperation with Department of Theory of History and Cultural History from Vilnius University.