The book presents Czech translations of five texts that belong to the genre called Märe, Kurzepik, or Versnovellen in German scholarship (in English, the terms “short verse romance” or “verse Novelle” are typically used). Included are the anonymous Mauritius von Craûn (“Sir Mauritius von Craûn”), Dietrich von der Glesseʼs Der Borte (“The Belt”), Konrad von […]

Petra Tušlová – Barbora Weissová – Stefan Bakardzhiev (eds.)   The Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project investigated a Roman rural settlement located along the middle stream of the Tundzha River, in south-eastern Bulgaria (Roman province of Thrace). The main objectives of the project were the determination of the habitation dynamics of the settlement, the investigation of its […]

Olga Pavlova   2 + 2 = 5: Worlds of Anti‑utopian and Dystopian Literature is based on the text of the dissertation Theory of Petrified Worlds on the Example of Anti‑Utopian and Dystopian Literature, where the author deals with anti‑utopian and dystopian literature in comparative perspective. First of all the book focuses on the theoretical […]

Eliška D. Härtelová, Josef Hrdlička (eds.)   The book is a collection of studies that have two aims: to enrich the view of Czech poetry from 1945 to the present, and to contribute to the question of what Comparative Literature is as a discipline. The studies are based on a comparison of a Czech author […]

David Skalický, Jan Wiendl (eds.) The joint publication entitled Shake, don’t stir! Between Literary Scholarship and Cultural Studies was published on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the literary scholar, historian and theorist of popular culture and columnist Peter A. Bílek. The book opens with a short story by the poet and prose writer […]

Miroslav Bárta and Vladimír Brůna (eds.) The principal aim of this publication is to provide interpretation of a high-resolution satellite images of all Old and Middle Kingdom pyramid sites in Egypt. The sites included in this Atlas represent to a large degree the principal sites of the Third through the Thirteenth Dynasty. Their particular characteristics […]

Jirásková, Lucie – Košárek, Petr – Macháček, Štěpán   The book is mapping the history of Czech Egyptology especially through the photographs, which were taken in Egypt by the photographers of the former Czechoslovak, now Czech, Institute of Egyptology. It is structured in three basic chapters – decades, which include several groups of photographs for […]

Olga Lomová, Jitka Malečková, Karel Šima a kol. The authors of the collective publication reflect on the changes that have occurred since time immemorial due to the encounter and clash of different cultures. They discuss the topic in the context of the interrelated issues of cultural identity, ideas and ideologies, or religion, and the development […]