Research Group for Transdisciplinary Investigation of Philosophical, Textual and Intellectual Culture in the Early Universities

Granted Projects

ACADEMIA. Reconstructing Late Medieval Quests for Knowledge:

Quodlibetal Debates as Precursors of Modern Academic Practice

(European Research Council, no. 949710)

Philosophy at the University of Prague around 1409:

Matěj of Knín’s Quodlibet as a Crossroads of European Medieval Knowledge

(Czech Science Foundation, no.19-16793S)

UniQ Project: A Database of Bohemical Texts on Universals

(Lindat-Clariah, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic)

The site is under construction.

Mgr. Ota Pavlíček, Ph.D., Th.D. - deputy head

ota.pavlicek[at]flu.cas.cz

Having obtained his PhD (Charles University in Prague & Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV, 2014) with a thesis on the thought of Jerome of Prague (†1416), Ota Pavlíček works mostly on topics from Late Medieval intellectual history and history of thought. He specialises in the history of production of knowledge in Late Medieval Europe, with a particular interest in the Prague Faculties of Arts and Theology and their links (including the transmission of knowledge) with their counterparts in Central Europe and the West. His research interests include philosophical (metaphysics, logic, astrology) and theological (mostly philosophical theology) discussions, the philosophical background of the Reformation and various types of debates including the quodlibets. Another area of his research interest is the field of Digital Humanities and the tools from this field which he uses on the corpora of late medieval texts he works with. He runs various projects in both the fields.