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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Sestavil Robert Krumphanzl Jiří Němec (1932‒2001) patřil od konce padesátých do první poloviny osmdesátých let k nejvýraznějším postavám kulturního a intelektuálního života. Byl jedním z iniciátorů tzv. Ekumenického semináře v Jirchářích, který se stal první veřejnou platformou svobodného náboženského, filozofického a kulturního dialogu v komunistickém Československu, a účastnil se příprav tzv. Díla koncilové obnovy, […]
Ondřej Šmigol British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a key world player at the end of the Cold War. Her foreign policy is remembered for its fierce criticism of communism and the Soviet Union. She became an icon in the dissident circles behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the recent scholarship of her foreign policy […]
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 […]
Helena Tůmová – Lenka Vacinová (eds.) Over the centuries, the intellectual and material legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has fundamentally shaped contemporary Western European culture and resonates in it to this day. The works of art of antiquity were not only an object of admiration and collector’s passion, but also an ideal and […]
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 […]
Anna Boučková Sakrální stavební projekty vznikající v prostředí Českobratrské církve evangelické, největší protestantské církve v České republice, stojí doposud spíše stranou pozornosti odborné i laické veřejnosti, a to navzdory tomu, že mezi nimi najdeme množství pozoruhodných řešení, která se mohou stát cenným příspěvkem do diskuse o současnosti i budoucnosti církevních budov, stejně jako o aktuálních […]
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, […]