The paper examines a several-year discord of Arnošt of Pardubice, the first archbishop of Prague, with the Benedictine nuns of St. George’s abbey at Prague Castle led by their Abbess Agnes. The ...conflict, which culminated in an interdict imposed on the abbey, could only be reconciled after the intervention of Emperor Charles IV in 1355. The author gathers all available information on these events and evaluates their consequences for the convent.
»Aber war man als Prager Tscheche, Deutscher oder Jude?«, fragt der Philosoph Vilém Flusser in seinen Erinnerungen. Im mehrsprachigen, plurikulturellen Prag der Moderne sind Stadterfahrung und ...Identitätsdiskurse untrennbar miteinander verflochten. Wie wird die Stadt in deutsch- und tschechischsprachigen Texten aus der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts modelliert und zu individuellen wie kollektiven Identitätsentwürfen ins Verhältnis gesetzt? Ulrike Mascher legt eine umfangreiche komparatistische Abhandlung zu dieser Thematik vor, indem sie deutsch- und tschechischsprachige Pragtexte der Zeit parallel liest und damit eingefahrene Forschungsmeinungen revidieren kann.
A new interpretation of the depiction of the detrimental fire of Prague’s left riverbank in 1541. Theauthor finds many concordances between the illustration and the real situation of Prague Castle ...andits surroundings viewed from the southeast.A new interpretation of the depiction of the detrimental fire of Prague’s left riverbank in 1541. The author finds many concordances between the illustration and the real situation of Prague Castle and its surroundings viewed from the southeast.
This article examines the question of the participation of professors from Poland in the academic life in Prague from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Because the article is a ...prosopographic study, the group of surveyed professors is presented in the context of their academic careers, territorial and social origins, motivation to take up an academic career in Prague, and life after their academic endeavours in Prague had come to an end.
In the mid-1870s, a wave of popular urban hauntings in public spaces swept across Europe. These included sightings of the Park Ghost in Sheffield in 1873 and the Westminster Christ Church Ghost in ...London in 1874. In early December 1874, probably the most famous Czech ghost, the Podskalí Apparition (Podskalské strašidlo), was born. This haunting was followed by that of similar but less popular ghosts that appeared in industrial, working-class Prague neighborhoods in 1876 and 1907, respectively. This paper analyzes newspaper articles from this period about these apparitions and their later depictions in Czech popular culture, and interprets these phenomena as local variants of the so-called “prowling ghosts”, a particular type of suburban phantom documented by current historiographical research on 19th-century ghostlore in England. The paper then describes how these Prague ghosts were utilized socially by two completely different cultural practices. On one hand, these hauntings were used by working-class people as vernacular spectacles and improvised festivities related to pranks, the symbolic occupation of public space, and Czech nationalism. For the middle classes and period newspapers loyal to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on the other hand, unruly mobs converging on the sites of supposed hauntings were a threat to established social norms and triggered both moral panics and public scorn of these “ghost hunters”. However, this attitude changed quickly when these events entered popular culture in the form of popular songs and, later, memoirs and literature. Between the Belle Époque at the First World War, these famous Prague hauntings were the staple for nostalgic longing in the last few decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The paper summarises available information about the figure of the third bishop of Prague. By the means of comparison with the other known figures of that time it tries to stress the singular ...features of this person, recognising Thiddag as a very interesting and important individual. Especially in the comparison with his predecessor Adalbert, whose biographers wrote rather a religious and conformal hagiographical work stressing the cliché of a saintly figure, the portray of Thiddag created mostly by his peer and colleague Thietmar of Merseburg presents a rather vivid and trustworthy picture of a diligent bishop with good ties to the empire. Unlike Adalbert he was able to solve his strife with the Bohemian duke and stay somewhat firmly in his office to the end of his days.
Research on the earliest terrestrial plants often brings difficulties related to uncertain systematic classification. As plant macrofossils are usually poorly preserved, no internal anatomy is ...recorded thus enabling only morphological features to be used for plant description and classification. Most of these early land plants show dichotomous branching and terminal sporangia, placing them among the basal polysporangiophytes. However, some plants may exhibit unusual characteristics which raise further questions.
The classification of early terrestrial plants has been debated, with discussions about whether they exhibit features that more closely resemble bryophytes or tracheophytes. These debates point to distinct evolutionary pathways. The recent emergence of a new group of plants known as eophytes could represent a link between bryophytes and tracheophytes.
This manuscript focuses on a recently discovered Silurian fossil plant named Capesporangites petrkraftii gen. et sp. nov. The plant shows features reminiscent of bryophytes as elongated sporangium having a cap-like formation at the apex and a columella-like structure at the base but also fits into the classification of polysporangiophytes. The study highlights the difficulty of investigating the morphology of fossils with respect to preservation methods and emphasizes the importance of a thorough description of even minor aspects of early land plant fossils. This attention to detail contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary path these plants have followed.
•New taxon of the early land plant Capesporangites petrkraftii established.•Polysporangiophyte showing features resembling bryophytes.•Morphology of Capesporangites is described in detail.•Discussion of the systematic classification of the plant.
A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told
through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against
nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe's most stunning
cities. What ...does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of
Prague's inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation,
embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and
monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history.
Past governments, democratic and Communist, layered the city with
architecture that melded politics and nationhood. Not all
inhabitants, however, felt included in these efforts to nurture
national belonging. Socialists, dissidents, Jews, Germans, and
Vietnamese-all have been subject to hatred and political
persecution in the city they called home. Chad Bryant tells the
stories of five marginalized individuals who, over the last two
centuries, forged their own notions of belonging in one of Europe's
great cities. An aspiring guidebook writer, a German-speaking
newspaperman, a Bolshevik carpenter, an actress of mixed heritage
who came of age during the Communist terror, and a Czech-speaking
Vietnamese blogger: none of them is famous, but their lives are
revealing. They speak to tensions between exclusionary nationalism
and on-the-ground diversity. In their struggles against alienation
and dislocation, they forged alternative communities in cafes,
workplaces, and online. While strolling park paths, joining
political marches, or writing about their lives, these outsiders
came to embody a city that, on its surface, was built for others. A
powerful and creative meditation on place and nation, the
individual and community, Prague envisions how cohesion
and difference might coexist as it acknowledges a need common to
all.
This study is focused on the development of the settlement and property structures of the Český Brod region between the medieval transformation and the end of the Hussite uprisings. It depicts the ...old settlement area and the diverse mosaic of the founding power groups — the local minor nobility, the Prague (arch)diocese, other ecclesiastical institutions, Prague burghers and the marginal influence of the king and his towns.
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