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 […]
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 […]
Hana Blažková This book aims to analyze Czech literary criticism of the 1990s from the perspective of political reading and tries to find the reasons for the depoliticization of the Czech literary field. It disputes the thesis that literature was stripped of its social roles and commitments at the beginning of this decade and […]
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
Alenka Jensterle Doležal The monograph brings thirteen studies by Alenka Jensterle Doležal focused on Slovenian literature and Slovenian-Czech relations. The contributions in the first part examine various areas of intercultural communication between two small Slavic nations in the context of the Central European area and focus on the influence of Slovenian intellectuals in the […]
Petra Polláková This study primarily focuses on the issues of circulation and various methods of appropriating calligraphic practices within the framework of transnational art history, as well as Czech art after 1948. Inspirations from the area of calligraphy have also contributed significantly to the development of interdisciplinary approaches, particularly in the context of the […]
Karolina Válová et al. The František Listopad’s centenary has been celebrated with an artistic-academic project called „100 František / Jorge Listopad“, also covering Czech and Portuguese culture. Since April 2021, the Portuguese Department of the Department of Romance Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (represented by Karolina Válová), the […]
The book presents Czech translations of five texts that belong to the genre called Märe, Kurzepik, or Versnovellen in German scholarship (in English, the terms “short verse romance” or “verse Novelle” are typically used). Included are the anonymous Mauritius von Craûn (“Sir Mauritius von Craûn”), Dietrich von der Glesseʼs Der Borte (“The Belt”), Konrad von […]
Petra Tušlová – Barbora Weissová – Stefan Bakardzhiev (eds.) The Yurta-Stroyno Archaeological Project investigated a Roman rural settlement located along the middle stream of the Tundzha River, in south-eastern Bulgaria (Roman province of Thrace). The main objectives of the project were the determination of the habitation dynamics of the settlement, the investigation of its […]
Olga Pavlova 2 + 2 = 5: Worlds of Anti‑utopian and Dystopian Literature is based on the text of the dissertation Theory of Petrified Worlds on the Example of Anti‑Utopian and Dystopian Literature, where the author deals with anti‑utopian and dystopian literature in comparative perspective. First of all the book focuses on the theoretical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Šimon Haikl Koukal Bernard Williams je na poli morální filosofie znám především coby skeptik. V souladu s tím je jeho přínos nezřídka vnímán jako destruktivní pro etiku, přinejmenším ve smyslu teoretické disciplíny. Tato monografie si klade za cíl ukázat, že ačkoli mnohá jeho stanoviska skutečně vyjadřují pochyby o roli rozumu v kontextu našeho jednání, jeho […]
Olga Lomová, Jitka Malečková, Karel Šima a kol. Autoři této knihy se zamýšlejí nad proměnami, k nimž od nepaměti dochází vlivem setkávání a střetávání odlišných kultur. Téma rozebírají v souvislostech propojených otázek kulturní svébytnosti, idejí a ideologií, respektive náboženství, a vývoje jazyků. Jednotlivé případové studie zahrnují dlouhé historické období od starověku do současnosti s těžištěm […]
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, […]