architecture and urban studies(42)

Zařízení pro sport a tělesnou výchovu v České republice

One of the most important prerequisites for participating in sports and for teaching physical education is the creation of suitable condi...

Wenceslas IV

In dramatic circumstances on the hot summer day of 16 August 1419, Bohemian king Wenceslas IV died at Nový hrádek near Kunratice, away fr...

King of the Romans and of Bohemia and the Origins of the Hussite Revolution

The Prague of Charles IV

This publication, written by Czech professor of art history Jan Royt, renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom in the...

The Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece

The Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece was one of the most important Gothic artists of the international style art in the European context. ...

The Country House Revisited

This monograph provides an insight into English country house fiction by twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with a focus on the ...

Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemia...

Smrt a zmrtvýchvstání národa

This monograph focuses on the phenomenon of Slavín, and presents it as a formative point in the national discourse, in which the present ...

Sen o Slavíně v české literatuře a kultuře

Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Largely unknown small towns, always in the shadow of famous cities, are mostly overlooked by historical research. English, Spanish, Portu...

Heritage and Development Strategies

Ruprechtice: veřejný prostor podle mentálních map

The reestablishment of democracy and civic society in the Czech Republic after 1990 was also associated with new challenges concerning th...

Renaissance Prague

At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and, later, the first Habsburg rulers sat on the Bohemian throne, the visual sty...

Půda a její hodnota

Land as a space is something that can be owned, one of the factors of production and a natural resource. The amount of land is fixed and ...

Teorie a praxe

Praha univerzitní

Prague has been a center of university education for almost seven centuries. It was on April 7, 1348, that Charles IV, King of Bohemia an...