Vernacular Historiography in Medieval Czech Lands

Medieval embryology in the vernacular: the case of De spermate

Method of healing, books 1-2. While in general this works well, at times the reader will be baffled by the complexity of a note which seems to concern a topic that develops out of the actual commentary far more than one that relates closely to what Galen himself says. Conversely, many of the Realien are passed over in silence: e.g. p. 82, just what sort of hat is a pilleus/pilos? The weakest se...

Occupational Structure in the Czech Lands Under the Second Serfdom

A shift in occupational structure towards non-agricultural activities is widely viewed as a key component of European economic growth during the early modern ‘Little Divergence’. Yet little is known about this process in those parts of eastern-central Europe that experienced the early modern ‘second serfdom’, the massive increase in the institutional powers of landlords over the rural populatio...

Coming of Jesuits to Czech lands and the present.

booK SERiES oN CLiMaTE RECoNSTRUCTioN oF THE CzECH LaNDS

Historical climatology is defined as a “research field situated at the interface of climato­ logy and (environmental) history dealing mainly with documentary evidence and using the methodology of both climatology and history” (Brázdil et al., 2005). following the same source, “(i) it aims at reconstructing temporal and spatial patterns of weather and climate, as well as climate related natural ...

Medieval anxieties: translation and authorial self-representation in the vernacular beast fable

My dissertation examines the concept of vernacular translation in the Middle Ages, particularly examining French and Middle English texts. It focuses on a specific genre of literature popular in the Middle Ages but relatively ignored in contemporary literary scholarship: the beast fable. My argument is that some of the principal writers of vernacular fables from the twelfth through the fifteent...