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The main goal of the project is to make the written sources of Czech medieval history accessible for a wide range of internet users: researchers, employees of memory institutions, teachers, students, as well as the broader public. The project will use digitised data from the "Czech Medieval Sources online" portal, which will be moved to the new system. This system will connect image data with a semi-automatically created text database that will allow for fulltext semantic searches of content and metadata, the creation of advanced annotations, and structured data extractions. The overall corpus size limits the first data batch to the diplomatic material from the Hussite period (1419–1436).
Duration: 2020–2023
Investigator: Robert Novotný
Co-investigators: Tereza Dufková, David Kozler, Jakub Jauernig
Cooperating institutions: Faculty of Informatics MU, Faculty of Arts MU, LEXICAL COMPUTING CZ, s.r.o.
In the Middle Ages, the conurbation of Prague was the centre of the land, the seat of the ruling dynasty and the capital city of trade of the Bohemian Kingdom. In this project we shall scrutinize, analyse and evaluate the social and economic role and position of the burghers of Prague within the economic space of Central European in the 13th to 15th century. When researching this topic one has to take into consideration that the burghers of Prague were involved in silver mining and in the export of Prague groschen, they had many economic contacts at home and abroad and often cooperated with the financially powerful Prague Jews.The research will focus mainly on the analysis of written sources held in Czech and foreign archives. Using these sources we will try to address also the questions that do not directly arise from the preserved sources. Primarily, we shall focus on the economic power of the burghers of Prague, on their “merchant mentality” and on this group’s social networks, both in-town and abroad. Results will be published individually as well as through of two monographs.
Duration: 2020–2022
Main investigator: Martin Musílek
Co-investigators: Veronika Večeřová, Kajetán Holeček
This project aims to comprehensively research the conflicts in Central Europe during the long 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.
Project web page: http://cms.flu.cas.cz/conflicts/
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
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
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
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
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
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
Investigator: dr. Pavlína Rychterová
Coordinator (CMS): doc. Lucie Doležalová
Web pages: http://overmode.oeaw.ac.at/
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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