FA Press


  • Fontes
  • Humanitas
  • Medium
  • Mnemosyne
  • Opera
  • Trivium
  • Varia
  • Mimo řady
  • Actual
  • New Books
  • Forthcoming

New Catalogue of Open Access Journals

7. 3. 2023 Actual

A new catalogue of Open Access journals published by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University has been published: Catalogue 2023/2024 (PDF download). You will find profiles of individual academic periodicals together with contacts to editors and links to complete web archives of numbers. All mentioned journals are freely available either in the form of individual […]

École de Paris a čeští umělci v meziválečné Paříži

25. 1. 2023 Actual New Books

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 […]

Knowledge and Memory. Festschrift in honour of Ladislav Bareš

1. 12. 2022 Actual New Books

Filip Coppens, Jiří Janák, Květa Smoláriková (eds.)   Professor Bareš’s admirable passion for knowledge nicely corresponds to the main focus of the religious and magical spells from the Late Period shaft tombs in Abusir, whose ultimate goal was to acquire a sacred status by accumulating secret knowledge. It is hence with great pleasure that on […]

Karel Teige. Deníky 1912‒1925

16. 9. 2022 Actual New Books

The edition of the diaries of one of the most prominent figures of the interwar avant-garde, Karl Teige (1900–1951), from 1912‒1925, represents a unique set of notes that Teige kept from childhood to early adulthood.   Buy in e-shop

The Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project. Studies on the Roman Rural Settlement in Thrace

12. 6. 2022 Actual

The monograph „The Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project. Studies on the Roman Rural Settlement in Thrace“ has been just published by the Faculty of Arts Press. Beside the editors and main authors – Petra Tušlová, Barbora Weissová, and Stefan Bakardzhiev, following authors also contributed: Viktoria Čisťakova, Věra Doležálková, Robert Frecer, Clarissa Haubenthal, Petra Heřmánková, Jiří Kmošek, Adéla […]

New satellite atlas of the pyramids has been published

1. 4. 2022 Actual

The Czech Institute of Egyptology (Charles University, Prague) has just published THE PYRAMID FIELDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT: A SATELLITE ATLAS. Topography and spatial and temporary development of some twenty historically unique pyramid sites are reviewed and discussed in detail by leading archaeologists and Egyptologists based on the latest high-resolution specifically commissioned satellite images.   The […]

Published: Central European Culture Wars: Beyond Post-Communism and Populism

11. 1. 2022 Actual

The Faculty of Arts Press presents a new publication written by Pavel Barša, Zora Hesová, and Ondřej Slačálek from the Department of Political Science at CU FA. Without separating Central Europe from global trends, the authors of this book look at a change in the political dynamics of post-accession Central Europe through the prism of the culture wars. […]

The journal Prague Egyptological Studies is published in English and has got a new layout

20. 10. 2021 Actual

Prague Egyptological Studies (PES) is a bi-annual double-blind peer-reviewed English journal prepared by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in Prague. The journal was published regularly since 2002 in Czech, starting from 2015 also in English and since 2021 only in English. The journal accepts archaeological reports as well as original studies on […]

Kang-i Sun Chang’s Memories of “White Terror” in Taiwan

2. 9. 2021 Actual

The Czech translation of the autobiography Cesta bílým terorem (Journey Through the White Terror) by Kang-i Sun Chang, a world-renown sinologist, has been published. The book recalls the period of persecutions in post-war Taiwan by giving the account of stormy family history. The preface was prepared by Prof Olga Lomová from the Department of Sinology at the Faculty […]

Things and Thoughts – A New View of the Iron Age in Central Europe in the monograph by Jan Kysela

22. 4. 2021 Actual

A new book by Jan Kysela (Institute of Classical Archaeology) investigates the contacts between Central Europe and the Mediterranean in the 4th–1st centuries BC Since the beginnings of research into the Central European Iron Age, interactions of the region with the Mediterranean played an important role in the interpretation of various archaeological phenomena but also […]

Další

Skutky a cesty

28. 5. 2023 New Books

Pero Tafur   Pero Tafur was a Castilian knight born in 1410 in Córdoba. His family served the Castilian king Juan II. As Tafur states himself in his narrative, he took advantage of temporary peace between the Castilian king and the moorish Kingdom of Granada and in the spring of 1436 started his voyage which […]

Ozvěny antiky v srdci Evropy

10. 5. 2023 New Books

Helena Tůmová – Lenka Vacinová (eds.)   Myšlenkový i hmotný odkaz antického Řecka a Říma v průběhu staletí zásadním způsobem utvářel současnou západní evropskou kulturu a rezonuje v ní dosud. Umělecká díla starověku byla nejen předmětem obdivu a sběratelské vášně, ale rovněž ideálem a nevyčerpatelným zdrojem tvůrčí inspirace. Touha vlastnit, napodobovat a tvořit byla přítomna, […]

The Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project. The Pottery Studies

24. 4. 2023 New Books

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 […]

Krajiny jazyka. Kolegové a žáci prof. Martinovi Hilskému k 80. narozeninám

19. 4. 2023 New Books

Ladislav Nagy, Martin Pokorný (eds.)   U příležitosti významného jubilea našeho předního překladatele, pedagoga a literárně-kulturního historika prof. Martina Hilského přináší tento svazek soubor analýz a zamyšlení k textům a tématům, jimž se prof. Hilský ve svém mimořádně bohatém díle věnoval s největší soustavností: dílu W. Shakespeara, otázce překladu a anglosaskému modernismu.

Možnosti historické biografie. Teorie biografie a historická věda

30. 3. 2023 New Books

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 […]

Já – ty, my – oni. Člověk jako bytost společenská / Ja – ty, my – oni. Człowiek jako istota społeczna Literatura

30. 3. 2023 New Books

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, […]

Podkoní, žák a smrt. Rozpory a vícehlasy v české poezii 15. století

13. 3. 2023 New Books

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 […]

Abusir XXVII. The mastaba of Werkaure. Volume II: Tombs AC 26 and AC 32, post-Old Kingdom strata

8. 3. 2023 New Books

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 […]

Globalization and the Limits of Imperialism. Ancient Egypt, Syria, and The Amarna Diplomacy

1. 2. 2023 New Books

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 […]

École de Paris a čeští umělci v meziválečné Paříži

25. 1. 2023 Actual New Books

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 […]

Další

Politika vlád Margaret Thatcherové vůči střední Evropě

18. 4. 2023 Forthcoming

Ondřej Šmigol   Kniha analyzuje britskou zahraniční politiku vůči střední Evropě za vlády konzervativní premiérky Margaret Thatcherové a její osobní postoj vůči středoevropským zemím. Činí tak formou tří případových studií, kde každá zkoumá jiný aspekt. První studie je analýzou britské politiky vůči nominálně socialistickým zemím v poslední dekádě komunismu, založenou na zkoumání vztahu Margaret Thatcherové k […]

Podivné historky ze staré Koreje

31. 8. 2022 Forthcoming

Kniha Podivné historky ze staré Koreje je překladem více než devadesáti lidových vyprávění z pozdního období korejského království Čoson (1392–1910), která jsou součástí sbírky Čchonggu jadam (Neoficiální historky ze Země zelených hor), sebrané a zapsané anonymními autory kolem poloviny 19. století. Z velké části se jedná o příběhy reálných postav na pozadí skutečných historických událostí, […]


Primární navigace

  • Home Page
  • About FA Press
    • About us
    • Catalogue (PDF)
    • Awards
  • FA Edition Series
    • Opera Facultatis philosophicae (OFP) EN
    • Fontes EN
    • Humanitas EN
    • Medium EN
    • Mnemosyne EN
    • Trivium EN
    • Varia EN
    • Outside series
    • E-books
  • FA Journals
    • Catalogue 2023/2024
  • Sales & Distribution
    • Selling places
    • Other distributed titles
    • International Book Exchange
  • E-shop
  • Contacts

Jazyk

  • Čeština
  • English
  • ff.cuni.cz
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Patička webu

E-mail
books@ff.cuni.cz
Phone
+420 221 619 298
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • E-mail
© FF UK 2015
  • ČT24: Rozhovor s Janem Chromým