Centre for Research on Courts and Residences
Research Agenda II. 2022–2029
International Cooperation
Experimental Research
Publications
Research Agenda I. 2013–2020/21
Household and Environmental Studies – HES
Since 1 January 2013, the Centre for Research on Courts and Residences has conducted research on the courts of primarily the medieval era. It namely studies royal, noble, and ecclesiastical courts. In addition to elementary approaches applied in the study of the composition and occupancy of courts, the centre focuses on expressions of everydayness, chivalry, the history of art and literature, and the reception of these trends in the modern early period. The centre builds on the findings of court research begun in 2005 at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (old website www.dvory-a-rezidence.cz). It collaborates with a number of Czech and foreign researchers from the ranks of historians, archivists, archaeologists, philologists, Germanists, and Bohemists. Interdisciplinary research is overseen by a scientific council comprising leading Czech and foreign scholars. The activities of the centre are presented by means of international scientific conferences, lectures, and scientific publications.
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Director
doc. PhDr. Dana Dvořáčková (née Malá), Ph.D.
Deputy director
Deputy director for international cooperation
PhDr. Robert Šimůnek, Ph.D., DSc.
Deputy for the Early Modern Period
Deputy for Household and Enviromenthal Studies
Ing. Mgr. Michal Vokurka, Ph.D.
Secretary
Contact address
Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Prosecká 809/76
190 00 Praha 9
varakova@hiu.cas.cz
Collaborators
Dr. Éloïse Adde (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Vienna)
doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Beran, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové)
PhDr. Jaroslav Boubín, CSc. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, external site in České Budějovice)
PhDr. Helena Březinová, Ph.D. (Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
prof. dr. hab. Bożena Czwojdrak (Institute of History, University of Silesia, Katowice)
Mgr. Pavel Drnovský, Ph.D. (Department of Archaeology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové)
PhDr. Daniela Dvořáková, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Mgr. Jana Fantysová Matějková, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
PhDr. Lenka Hlávková, Ph.D. (Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University) †
PhDr. Jiří Hrbek, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
doc. Mgr. Petr Kozák, Ph.D. (Regional Archive in Opava)
Mgr. Ondřej Lee Stolička, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
PhDr. Karel Maráz, Ph.D. (Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University)
Dustin M. Neighbors, Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy, History & Art Studies & Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Helsinki)
doc. Mgr. Martin Nodl, Ph.D. (Centre for Medieval Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University)
Mgr. Patrik Paštrnák, M.A., D.Phil. (Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc)
JUDr. PhDr. Jakub Razim, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, and Department of Theory of Law and Legal History, Faculty of Law, Palacký University Olomouc)
doc. Mgr. Kristýna Solomon, Ph.D. (Department of German Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc)
doc. PhDr. Martin Šandera, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové)
Mgr. Ladislav Varadzin, Ph.D. (Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
dr. hab. Piotr Węcowski (Institute of History, University of Warsaw)
Ing. Mgr. Michal Vokurka, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Mgr. František Záruba, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Mgr. Zdeněk Žalud, Ph.D. (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences; Hussite Museum in Tábor)
Scientific Council
PhDr. Klára Benešovská, CSc. (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Prof. PhDr. Marie Bláhová, DrSc. (Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
PhDr. Lenka Blechová, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Prof. PhDr. Lenka Bobková, CSc. (Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
PhDr. Milena Bravermanová (Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Prof. PhDr. Václav Bůžek, CSc. (Institute of History, Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice)
PhDr. Eva Doležalová, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
doc. PhDr. Dalibor Havel, Ph.D. (Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University)
Prof. PhDr. Ivan Hlaváček, CSc. (Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Prof. PhDr. Martin Holý, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Michel Margue (University of Luxembourg)
Prof. PhDr. Petr Sommer, CSc., DSc. (Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences; Centre for Medieval Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University) †
doc. Mgr. Sylvie Stanovská, Dr. (Department of German, Scandinavian, and Netherland Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University)
PhDr. Robert Šimůnek, Ph.D., DSc. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Prof. PhDr. František Šmahel, DrSc. (Centre for Medieval Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University)
Prof. PhDr. Martin Wihoda, Ph.D. (Institute of History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University)
Prof. PhDr. Josef Žemlička, DrSc. (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
The mission of the scientific council is to support scientific and scholarly collaboration between historians, archivists, archaeologists, philologists, Germanists, and Bohemists in the pursuit of interdisciplinary research on the topic of court scholarship, the main outputs of which are interdisciplinary and international colloquia with subsequent publications. Members of the council are researchers in the fields of history, archaeology, art history, classical philology, German studies, and Czech studies. Appointments to the council are made on approval by the director of the Institute of History.
Meetings of the research centre’s collaborators are typically held once every two years either in conjunction with or preceding scientific seminars and colloquia.
