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Projects

/ From Performativity to Institutionalization: Handling Conflict in the Late Middle Ages (Strategies, Agents, Communication)

Projekt EXPRO 19-28415X

fifteenth century. In three thematic strands, it approaches (1) religious and ideological controversies, (2) conflicts surrounding members of the Luxembourg dynasty, and (3) social tensions and disputes. The peculiar situation in the Czech Lands after the Compactata treaty of 1436, which officially ended the Hussite wars, is understood as an ‘institutionalized conflict’. Despite the stabilized situation which allowed the evolution of an Estate system, neither party (Catholic nor Hussite) could accept the correctness of the other’s faith without jeopardizing their own legitimacy. Seen as intertwined issues, the strategies of conflict management employed by individual actors, the communicative and performative aspects of controversies, and the evolution of institutions in a divided society will render a more adequate and nuanced image of the Late Middle Ages in Central Europe as a contentious period.
Duration: 2019–2023
Investigator: Pavel Soukup
Co-investigator: Klára Hübner, Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, FF MU, Brno
Team members (CMS): Vojtěch Bažant, Pavlína Cermanová, Dušan Coufal, Jakub Jauernig, Martin Nodl, Robert Novotný, Adam Pálka, Martin Pjecha, Martin Šorm, Václav Žůrek
Team members (FF MU): Petr Elbel, Přemysl Bar, Stanislav Bárta, Ondřej Schmidt, Heinrich Speich

 

/ Transmission of Knowledge. The Fortune of Four Bestsellers in Late Medieval Czech Lands

GAČR Project (GA ČR 17-19808S)

Project aims to rethink the history of late medieval literacy in the Czech lands. Four texts were chosen as examples illustrating the spread and changes of literate circles. All of them assemble knowledge of the world in the form of of historical, philosophical, medicinal, moralising or catechetical summaries. All of them circulated in a large number of manuscripts extant to this day. Secretum secretorum, Liber de hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludum scaccorum, Elucidarium and Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum are distinctive for totality of material and at the same time differ significantly from extensive 13th-century summas. These texts were copied, adapted and even translated into the vernacular during the entire 14th and 15th centuries. Since they were gradually spreading, initially to elite centres of learning, but later also to a larger scope of groups of recipients (parishes, citizens, nobility), we consider them to be an applicable material for the aforementioned objective of the project. The aforementioned texts were communicated more intensively in the Czech lands from the beginning of the 14th century. The initial manifestations of humanism in the Czech lands and the introduction of printing in the second half of the 15th century significantly changed the paradigm of the reception of this type of works. In this chronological framework, we would like to grasp the phenomenon of enlarging circles of readers including all individuals who read, owned, transcribed, or received the selected text. The research team will examine the transfer of various types of knowledge, summarized in our four texts, into various social, cultural and confessional milieus which determined the way in which the texts were read and interpreted.
Team members: Vojtěch Bažant, Jaroslav Svátek, Václav Žůrek
Investigator: Pavlína Cermanová
Duration: 2017–2019

 

/ Magistri Iohannis Hus Opera omnia

The editorial care of the latin works of Jan Hus, formerly published but abandoned by "Academia. Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd", has been taken over by the Centre for Medieval Studies in cooperation with the Belgian publisher Brepols n.v. Since 2004 new volumes and revised editions have been integrated into the renown series Corpus Christianorum – Continuatio Mediaevalis, keeping the original numbering of the old Opera omnia as additional mark besides the appropriate place in the new series. The secretary of the editorial commission - dr. Gabriel Silagi - has been appointed by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and has his seat at the CMS. He is responsible for the last revision of all manuscripts to appear in the series. Further editions are in preparation in Prague and Brno and will be ready in due time.
Secretary: dr. Gabriel Silagi

 

Previous Projects:

/ Birth of the Bohemian Town and Mendicant Orders

GAČR Project (GA16-06083S)

Investigator: Prof. PhDr. Petr Sommer, CSc., DSc., Centre for Medieval Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Coordinator: Jan Kremer
Duration: 2016–2018

 

/ Cultural Codes and their Transformation in the Hussite Period

Project for the Support of Excellence in the Basic Research (GAČR P405/12/G148)

Investigator: Prof. PhDr. František Šmahel, DrSc., Centre for Medieval Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Co-investigator: PhDr. Alena Černá, Ph.D., Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Second co-investigator: Prof. PhDr. Jiří Kuthan, DrSc., Catholic Theological Faculty
Coordinators: Mgr. Robert Novotný, Ph.D., Mgr. Pavel Soukup, Ph.D.
Duration: 2012–2018

 

/ Culture and Art of the Benedictine Order in the Central Europe 800-1300

NAKI Grant of the Ministry of Culture (DF11P01OVV007)

Duration: 2011-2015
Investigator (CMS): Prof. Petr Sommer
Coordinator (CMS): Pavlína Mašková
Co-investigator: Prof. Vít Vlnas, National Gallery in Prague
Second co-investigator: Prof. PhDr. Jiří Kuthan, DrSc., Catholic Theological Faculty
Web pages: http://vystava-benediktini.cz

 

/ Origins of the Vernacular Mode. Regional Identities And European Networks in Late Medieval Europe

ERC-Starting Grant 263672

Investigator: dr. Pavlína Rychterová
Coordinator (CMS): doc. Lucie Doležalová
Web pages: http://overmode.oeaw.ac.at/

 

/ Coexistence of the Christian and Jewish Population in Medieval Bohemia

Grant of the Czech Science Foundation (ID number P405/11/1982)

Trvání: 2011-2014
Řešitel za HIÚ: PhDr. Eva Doležalová, Ph.D.
Spoluřešitel za CMS: PhDr. Martin Musílek, CMS FLÚ AV ČR

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