This book was conceived to commemorate the one‑hundredth anniversary of the death of the first professor of Oriental philology at the Czech University of Prague, Rudolf Dvořák (1860–1920). Dvořák lectured on several Oriental languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Old Ethiopian, Chinese) and held seminars in which students read and critically interpreted texts written in these […]
This book focuses on the history of the Institute of Art History at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Therefore, it does not cover the history of the whole subject of art history in Bohemia, but only of a single academic institution, though a very important one. The text covers the period from […]
No bienio 2017 e 2018, a Universidade Carolina de Praga celebrou 90 anos da língua portuguesa como curso livre e 60 anos de Filologia Portuguesa como curso de licenciatura. O livro Pensar o passado, compreender o presente, idealizar o futuro é o resultado do colóquio internacional que teve lugar na Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Carolina, […]
Faculty of Arts Press, a publisher of 15 academic journals in the field of humanities, joined the Open Access program in 2015. Readers can peruse the collection of journals which are now available online in the catalogue Journals 2020. The catalogue provides brief descriptions of the thematic focus of the periodicals, useful contacts, including links to […]
Even though the cult of patron saints is still viewed as an integral part – or even a distinctive feature – of Catholicism, it is not defined by any of the Christian dogmas. Since this is the case, what has made patron saints so constantly popular? The interdisciplinary edited volume Patron Saints and Saintly Patronage in Early Modern Europe wants to contribute to the […]
English edition of the book Stvořené pro věčnost: největší objevy české egyptologie (2018) by Miroslav Bárta, Ladislav Bareš, Jaromír Krejčí, Mohamed Megahed, Lenka Varadzinová). The one hundred and forty objects in this book represent the same number of extraordinary moments of resurrection of unique artifacts of the ancient civilizations in the Nile Valley and adjacent areas. Every […]
This e-book shows one part of the book Jak se tlumočilo a tlumočí v Namibii (by Jelizaveta Getta), that has been trans- lated form Czech into English. Its subject covers interpreting in Namibia during its existence as a German colony (1884–1915), in particular it deals with the intercultural communication between the local residents and German colonists. One of the crucial problems was the range […]
The current offer of one hundred eBooks from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University is now being enlarged by more than 50 eBooks from five different editions (Fontes, Humanitas, Mnemosyne, Trivium and Opera) that represent the top quality academic work from the faculty. All titles are now available via EBSCOhost Collection Manager. Faculty of […]
Aimed at international, non-Czech readers as well as Czech audience, the new monograph by Mirna Šolić In Search of a Shared Expression examines Karel Čapek’s travel writing from different theoretical perspectives, and contextualises it within Czech and European interwar modernist travel writing poetics, and explores the links with visual art of the period. Karel Čapek (1890-1938) wrote […]
Karel Čapek (1890-1938) wrote at the time when the travel writing genre gained some of its most prominent artistic and narrative features, and the theme of travel permeated both literature and visual art. He contributed to its unique legacy founded on modernist, cross-generic and cross-artistic experiments not only in his travel writing opus, but also […]
