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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Faculty of Arts Press, a publisher of 16 academic journals in the field of humanities, joined the Open Access programme in 2015. Readers can peruse the collection of journals which are now available online in the catalogue Journals 2021/20202. The catalogue provides brief descriptions of the thematic focus of the periodicals, useful contacts that include […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 volume brings together studies in comparative literature by the late Professor Oldřich Král (1930–2018). As translator, he left an enduring oeuvre of classical Chinese literature in Czech. He also authored History of Chinese Philosophy (2005). However, his theoretical studies were only to be found in various journals and miscellanies, and these are now published […]
This monograph follows the Paths of Polemic, or Significance and Transformations of the Genre of Polemic in the Czech Literature at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries. The studies, based on thorough analysis of the source materials, are focused, in a relative chronology and from a gradually changing point of view, using various […]
Journey Through the White Terror is an autobiography of Kang‑i Sun Chang, Professor at Yale University and an internationally renowned Sinologist. The book describes the childhood and youth years of the author during the so‑called White Terror period in Taiwan (1947–1987), as well as her emigration to the United States of America, where she was […]
The Czech Patron Saints in Early Modern Bohemian Hagiography: a Bibliography of Legends, Sermons, and Related Texts on the Patron Saints of Kingdom of Bohemia and Margraviate of Moravia printed in ca. 1550–1750. This publication deals with the issue of state or national patron saints (in Czech zemští patroni, in German Landespatronen), specifically the Czech […]
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 and importantly as narrative elements. However, they rarely became a subject of study in their own right. The present volume investigates the contacts between […]
The book presents the reader the richest corpus of Old Kingdom royal funerary domains. The core of the bood represents catalogue of funerary domains retrieved during recent archaeological works by Egyptian team at Sahura’s causeway and of related pehou regions. The introductory chapters provide the reader with the contex and the overview of other known […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]