Sestavil Robert Krumphanzl Jiří Němec (1932‒2001) was one of the most prominent figures in cultural and intellectual life from the late 1950s to the first half of the 1980s. He was one of the initiators of the so-called Ecumenical Seminar in Jircháře, which became the first public platform for free religious, philosophical, and cultural dialogue […]

Ondřej Šmigol   British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a key world player at the end of the Cold War. Her foreign policy is remembered for its fierce criticism of communism and the Soviet Union. She became an icon in the dissident circles behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the recent scholarship of her foreign policy […]

Pero Tafur   Pero Tafur was a Castilian knight born in 1410 in Córdoba. His family served the Castilian king Juan II. As Tafur states himself in his narrative, he took advantage of temporary peace between the Castilian king and the moorish Kingdom of Granada and in the spring of 1436 started his voyage which […]

Helena Tůmová – Lenka Vacinová (eds.)   Over the centuries, the intellectual and material legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has fundamentally shaped contemporary Western European culture and resonates in it to this day. The works of art of antiquity were not only an object of admiration and collector’s passion, but also an ideal and […]

Petra Tušlová   This is the second volume of the final studies related to the Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project, which investigated a Roman rural settlement located along the middle stream of the Tundzha River, in south-eastern Bulgaria (the Roman province of Thrace). It is fully focused on the pottery materiál found during the excavation and surface […]

Ladislav Nagy, Martin Pokorný (eds.) On the occasion of the important jubilee of our leading translator, educator and literary-cultural historian Prof. Martin Hilský, this volume brings a set of analyses and reflections on the texts and topics that Prof. Hilský, in his extremely rich work, dealt with with with the greatest consistency: the work of […]

Václav Sixta   Historical biographies are a traditional and successful form of writing about history present in both academia and popular culture. As a result, this form has a major impact on our ideas about the past. What do contemporary theoretical discussions about historical biographies look like? What can be said about contemporary Czech biographical […]

Jan Wiendl, Lucie Saicová Římalová (eds.)   Charles University and Warsaw University have been organising bi -annual inter-university conferences for more than fifty years. The 27 th Czech–Polish inter-university conference was held on 6 and 7 October 2022 at Charles University, Faculty of Arts in Prague. The topic of the conference was I – You, […]

Martin Šorm How to understand the Old Czech poem Podkoní a žák (Groom and Student)? What are the characteristics and historical dynamics of the extant corpus of Old Czech verse literary dialogues or disputes? The monograph Groom, Student and Death proposes an interpretation of 14th- and 15th-century dialogical poems from the perspective of medieval reception […]

Federico Zangani   This book investigates ancient Egyptian imperialism in Syria and the origin of the Amarna diplomacy at the time of the 18th Dynasty, during the earliest phase of globalization in world history, the Late Bronze Age, by addressing theories and debates in the fields of Global History, International Relations, and political science, and […]