The Danish writer Johannes V. Jensen (1873–1950) wanted to create a piece of literature which was supposed to replace the Bible and tell the story of the origin of humans according to the scientific theory of evolution. The book was entitled
The Prague Castle collections hold a precious series of fabrics from the tomb of St. Wenceslas († 935). The remains of the prince were transferred to Prague Castle from Stará Boleslav several years after his death, and were interred in the south apse of St. Vitus Rotunda. For centuries, the grave remained in the same place. In the Middle Ages an above-ground tomb and altar were constructed, later modified several times. The remains and the grave goods, mostly fabrics, were removed from the altar and the lead tomb situated underneath the floor in 1911. In total, 18 fabrics were restored in 2002-2003, textile and technological analyses were conducted, and in 2018 and 2019 the items were newly assessed. The fabrics come from a broad period spanning the 11th/12th century and the 15th century. Most fabrics date from the 13th-14th century. The regions in which the fabrics were produced are located in all major silk-making centres of the time: north China, central Asia, the Near East, Egypt, Spain and Italy. The oldest fabric was woven with the samitum technique, the others are lampas fabrics. The fabrics without patterns are in plain or twill weave. The fabrics from the tomb of St. Wenceslas are secondary relics, i.e. objects which were in contact with the saint's remains.
The book Migration and Identity in Nordic Literature focuses on migration as it has manifested itself in literature and culture in the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Since migration almost always leads to a disturbance of identity and creates a potential for conflicts between individuals, as well as between groups of people, the authors have chosen to examine the theme of migration in relation to the questions of identity, both national and individual. The present monograph therefore concentrates on such cases of disturbance, disruption and hybridization of identity, as they are represented in literary works linked to the European North. The book will be of interest to all readers who are interested in issues such as xenophobia, racism, nationalism, cosmopolitism, globalization, cultural transfer, cultural hybridity, multiculturalism and multilingualism.
The article summarises information on a large assemblage of medieval wool and silk textiles found during an archaeological excavation of waste layers from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the centre of Prague. The work primarily presents wool cloths (fulled fabrics) and fabrics (without fulling) in plain and twill weave, which make up the vast majority of the more than 1,500 fragments. The silk textiles presented are interesting evidence of the presence of expensive imported goods in the Bohemian environment. The results, based mainly on textile technology studies of the fabrics, are also supplemented with information acquired during analyses of their current and original colour, including an identification of dyeing sources.
In our contribution, we explore the Czech-speaking discourse related to Georg Brandes in the Bohemian Lands in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, which means before and shortly after Czechs gained their independence from Austria-Hungary in 1918. Our research of archival sources, especially periodicals and private letters, enables us to confidently claim that the impact of Brandes’s criticism on the Czech arts was rather insignificant. At the same time, the sources give a clear picture that the Czech-speaking intelligentsia were interested in using Brandes’s symbolic capital to promote their struggle for Czech cultural autonomy. Thus, it was not Brandes’s works that can be considered influential in the Czech context but his persona. This strategy of using Brandes’s symbolic capital mirrors his own efforts to be viewed as an international intermediary. Finally, we explore the East-West dynamics in Brandes’s relationship with Czechs and vice versa, and here, we identify a considerable asymmetry
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