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 […]

The History of Contemporary Czech Poetry (Storia della poesia ceca contemporanea), the first book by Italian Bohemist and Russianist Angelo M. Ripellino, appeared in four hundred numbered copies in Rome in 1950. It was a period in which many of the poets, critics and artists the author was writing about were persecuted by the Communist regime and left for forgotten. […]

This book presents the contributions offered to Professor Jan Bouzek at the conference “Contacts, Migrations and Climate Change” in honour of his 80th birthday held in May 2015 in Prague. The konference goal was not only to honour his exceptional professional achievements but also to create a broad forum for discussion across the archaeology of […]

The content of the publication is focused around the analysis of social protection within the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the National Socialist rule. The collection therefore strives to overcome the limits of current historical research. Instead of the present emphasis on “social demagogy” when conceptualizing a social policy whose goal was […]