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 […]

Jaromír Krejčí – Petra Brukner Havelková – Marie Peterková Hlouchová et al. The second part of the monograph on the results of the archaeological excavation of Werkaure’s mastaba (AC 26; dated to the second part of the Fifth Dynasty) and its surroundings in central Abusir focuses on contexts dating to the First Intermediate Period, the […]

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 […]

Anna Pravdová When you say “Czech artists in interwar Paris”, everyone today thinks of the names František Kupka, Josef Šíma, Jindřich Štyrský and Toyen. When the same thing was said to the art-loving Parisian of the twenties, the names Georges Kars, Othon Coubine and François Zdenek or François Maurice Eberl came to mind in the […]

Miroslav Bárta a Hana Vymazalová (eds.)   Tento svazek suplement Pražských egyptologických studií je věnován památce profesora Břetislava Vachaly, dlouholetého pracovníka Českého egyptologického ústavu FF UK, zkušeného a světově uznávaného vědce a nadšeného popularizátora egyptologického bádání. Texty jsou připraveny pro širší českou veřejnost se záměrem přiblížit poslední výsledky v oboru egyptologie a egyptské archeologie. První […]

Michal Hořejší This book focuses on critical analysis of the discourse on the Bohemian Forest National Park (BFNP) between 1991 and 2010. This large-size protected area has over the long term been the subject of highly critical debate among various participants including top political representatives, particularly as a result of several cases of massive disturbances […]