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 […]

Old-Norse literature is known to the Czech reader mainly because of texts with pagan themes: the mythological and heroic songs of the Elder Edda, the pagan Skaland poems and sagas of antiquity. Less well known is that after their Christianization in the 10th to 12th centuries, the ancient Northmen produced a whole range of literary […]

The volume focuses on different methods and strategies employed by individuals and/or communities when confronted with major changes in society and its reflection in the material culture. The first part concentrates on developments and transformations observable in New Kingdom private tombs commissioned by non-royal individuals in the three main cemeteries of the time – Amarna, […]

An exceptional international project that documents the greatest archaeological discoveries of Czech Egyptologists connected with the research of the Egyptian Abusir. Take the unique opportunity to see generous loans from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Great Egyptian Museum in Giza, but also from museums in Berlin, Leipzig, Hanover, Heidelberg, Hildesheim and Frankfurt am Main. […]

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 […]

The anti-liberal turn in Central Europe aroused a lively scholarly discussion to which this book wishes to contribute by providing a novel perspective. The recent illiberal upsurge is often ascribed to weakly rooted liberalism in the context of an unfinished transition, or, conversely, to the completion of the transition process in which populists turn against […]

Polynesian literature in English is defined as post-colonial literature written by Indigenous writers living in the former colonies of Great Britain in the geo-cultural area of Polynesia. It emerged in the 1960s as the articulation of the resistance of the Indigenous people against colonial hegemony and as the expression of their struggle for self-assertion. Polynesian […]