Lectures 2024

 

 

... and the Devil was walking among the people (EN)

Mgr. Eva Jarošová, Ph.D.

 

Urban legends and disinformation narratives in times of medical crises 

 

„5G installations would be spreading the corona virus.“

„COVID-19 is an infection caused by the world’s elites for reducing population growth.“

„Drinking bleach or pure alcohol can cure the coronavirus infections.“

Are these narratives something that emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic, or have they been with us always? The paper focuses on disinformation narratives emerging during times of health crises, seeking their roots, continuity, actualization, and potential mechanics of how to deal with them. On the particular example of plague and cholera epidemics in medieval and early modern Central Europe, the submission divides the narratives into two groups: supernatural images and disbelief in the system, with plague epidemics representing more of the supernatural imagination while cholera serves to illustrate the distrust in the early modern state and its ability to manage health crises.

 

The Armoury of Bernau and how the first „Hussite Museum“ of the world did not open in Bohemia (EN)

Leo Grabsch

 

In early spring of the year 1432 one of the hussites glorious rides led them to Brandenburg. One reason for this might have been revenge for the fifth crusade against them under the Leadership of Frederick I., Elector of Brandenburg. After having marched nearly 300 km from bohemian borders, pillaging and destroying several towns and villages on the way, they turned back south. A part of these troops reached the city of Bernau (north-east of Berlin) on the evening of the 22nd of April. The next day fights occured around the city. One day later the hussites were gone and Bernau was still intact. The following centuries the citizens of the town celebrated their victory every year on the day of Saint George (23rd of April). In 1882, 450 years after these events, the town held a great festivity and opened the first Hussite Museum of the world to the public. It was called that, because the armours and several other items in the exhibition were thought to be loot from the battle. The events around Bernau in 1432 and the real story behind the very rare armours shall be the main topics of this lecture.

 

Ways of weapon-less fighting in the middle ages (CZ)

Vojtěch půlpán

 

Is it just a hobby? (CZ)

Tomáš Konečný - Voltižéři 18. řadového pluku, z.s.

 

A book in hands of the powerful  (CZ)

Vojtěch Vrtiška (Scriptor Adalbertus, DANAR)

 

Daring history "Special" - a Drunk's mass (CZ)

Vojtěch Půlpán

 

Mechanical Artillery from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (CZ)

Ladislav Wothan Tomič

 

The oldest verses about fencing with a longsword from Prague (CZ)

Ondřej Vodička, Karel Dobiáš

 

Ahwww dresses! (CZ)

Mgr. Lenka Pajer PhD.

 

Promenades, shows, walks and mostly...money! (CZ)

Klára Andresová

 

Plate armour of the second half of the fifteenth century or see, what did I do wrong (EN)

Kryštof Šámal

 

Quick entry into the topic of protective equipment of the late middle ages, which will in (hopefully) entertaining way introduce the audience to the individual pieces and styles, but also with what to watch our for and possible pitfalls when trying to create or reconstruct armour. All this is done on a example of timeline of one reenactor’s career.

 

Notes to the conctruction of soft armour (CZ)

Vít Hrachový

 

Changes in armour between 1200 -1420  (CZ)

Pavel Macků - Masér

 

Introduction to the project of the church on Curiia Vítkov (CZ)

Ladislav Wothan Tomič

Transfering real techniques into fatasy worlds (CZ)

Robert Waschka

 

Samson girded with a sword, the weapon as a gateway to the medieval imagination (EN)

Tonda Kadlec

 

The paper focuses on the depiction of Samson killing the Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey in the Bible of Conrad of Vechta. It notes the unusual depiction of Samson with a sword. Drawing on other depictions, sculptural monuments and literary sources associated with Samson, it examines the motivation that led the artist to depict the weapon by the side of the biblical hero.

 

From historical sources to reenactment (CZ)

Pavel Houfek

 

The invention of book printing, aka. from the scribe to Gutenberg (CZ)

Markéta Poskočilová