𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟰𝟬𝟵 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲 Ota Pavlíček, Luigi Campi (eds)

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟰𝟬𝟵 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲

Ota Pavlíček, Luigi Campi (eds)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Luigi Campi & Ota Pavlíček

Part I: The 1409 Arts Quodlibet at the University of Prague. Its Authors, Contents, Preservation, and Historical Context

1. The 1409 Prague Arts Quodlibet in the Context of Prague and Central European Quodlibetal Tradition

Ota Pavlíček

2. Matthias of Knín’s Road to the 1409 Prague Quodlibet: An Intellectual Biography and Some Notes on the 1409 Quodlibet in Its Historical Context

Luigi Campi

3. The Quodlibetal Book of Matthias of Knín in MS Praha, KMK, L 45, Viewed by a Codicologist

Michal Dragoun

4. Catalogue of MS Praha, KMK, L 45, including Matthias of Knín’s Quodlibet of 1409

Ota Pavlíček

Part II: Selected Themes from the 1409 Prague Quodlibetal Debate

1. Matthias of Knín’s quaestio principalis and Anti-eternalism at the Prague Faculty of Arts in the Wake of Wyclif

Luigi Campi

2. Divine Ideas as a Metaphysical and Theological Topic at the Prague 1409 Quodlibet

Ota Pavlíček

3. Sight and the Rainbow in the 1409 Quodlibet-Related Materials: Drawing Inspiration from Robert Grosseteste and Albert the Great to Nicole Oresme and Themo Judaei

Lukáš Lička

4. The Astronomical and Cosmological Arguments in MS Praha, KMK, L 45

Zuzana Lukšová

5. Zdeněk of Labouň and the Doctrine of Critical Days: Medical Astrology at the 1409 Prague Quodlibet

Karel Dobiáš

6. British Logic in MS Praha, KMK, L 45: consequencie, obligaciones, insolubilia

Miroslav Hanke

Part III: Selected Texts from the 1409 Prague Quodlibetal Debate

1. The Introductory Section of Matthias of Knín’s Quodlibet with a Note on the Edition

Ed. Luigi Campi

2. Matthias of Knín’s and Paul of Prague’s Disputation at the 1409 Prague Quodlibet: Edition of Texts on Divine Ideas

Ed. Ota Pavlíček

3. Editions of the 1409 Quodlibet-Related Sets of Arguments on Sight, Sensible Qualities, and the Rainbow, with a Note on the Edition

Ed. Lukáš Lička

4. Editions of the 1409 Quodlibet-Related Astronomical Texts With a Note in the Edition

Ed. Zuzana Lukšová

5. Matthias of Knín’s and Zdeněk of Labouň’s Disputation at the 1409 Prague Quodlibet: Edition of Texts on Medical Astrology

Ed. Karel Dobiáš

6. Editions of the 1409 Quodlibet-Related Sets of Arguments on Moral Philosophy with a Note on the Edition

Ed. Soňa Hudíková

Indices

Sarunas Milisauskas, Janusz Kruk: History of European Archaeology in the Twentieth Century. Warszawa: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN 2025

 Sarunas Milisauskas, Janusz Kruk: History of European Archaeology in the Twentieth Century. Warszawa: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN 2025. ISBN: 978-83-68122-24-4

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Acknowledgments

PART I. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Histories of Archaeology by Archaeologists

Chapter 2. Separating Fact from Fiction

PART II. HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS ON EUROPEAN

ARCHAEOLOGY

Chapter 3. The Brief Overview of the Pre-1900 Period

Chapter 4. The Beginning of the New Century

Chapter 5. The Attainment of lndependence. The 1914-1939 Period

Chapter 6. New Dark Age.The Second War lnterlude 1939-1948

Chapter 7. Impose Marxism. The Stalinist Period 1948-1956

Chapter 8. New Methods and Many Major Discoveries.

The 1956-1989 Time Period

Chapter 9. For the Better in Archaeology.

The 1989-2010 Time Period

PART III. ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE STATE

Chapter 10. Language and National Politics

Chapter 11. Nationalism in European Archaeology

Chapter 12. Archaeology in the Service of the State

Chapter 13. Archaeologist in Totalitarian Times

PART IV. NAIVE DREAMERS

Chapter 14. Osbert Crawford. The Critics of England

Chapter 15. Vere Gordon Childe

PART V. ARCHAEOLOGY OF STATES

Chapter 16. German and Nazi Archaeology

Chapter 17. Archaeology in the Russia and Former Soviet Union

Chapter l8. Archaeology in soviet Dominated countries 149

Archaeology in Czechoslovakia

Archaeology in East Germany

Archaeology in Poland

PART VI. THEORY AND PRACTICE

Chapter 19. Culture-Historical Archaeology

Chapter 20. Theories in European Archaeology

Chapter 21. The Origin of Complex Societies and Prehistoric

Warfare in Europe

Chapter 22. Excavations

PART VII. WOMEN IN EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

Chapter 23. Excavating Women

PART VIII. AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO EUROPEAN

ARCHAEOLOGY

Chapter 24. Defining American Contributions

Chapter 25. American Contributors

Chapter 26. The Professional Context of European Archaeology

Chapter 27. Logistics of American Research

Chapter 28. The Attraction of Europe

BIBLIOGRAPHY

External Links

APPENDIX

Andre Gonciar, The History of Romanian Archaeology. The Murky

Waters between lndividual Deontology and State ldeology

LIST 0F FIGURES AND TABLES

PERSONS INDEX

Gregor Feindt: Baťas Menschen. Rationalisierung, social engineering und Differenzierung in der tschechoslowakischen Unternehmensstadt Zlín, 1918–1948.

Gregor Feindt: Baťas Menschen. Rationalisierung, social engineering und Differenzierung in der tschechoslowakischen Unternehmensstadt Zlín, 1918–1948. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2026. ISBN: 978-3-666-37109-7

OA: https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.13109/9783666371097

Baťas Menschen

Das Schuhunternehmen Baťa produzierte in Zlín preisgünstige Schuhe für den Weltmarkt – und leistungsfähige Menschen. Baťa lockte seine Beschäftigten mit einem Leben in Wohlstand, mit modernen Annehmlichkeiten und einem Ausblick in die weite Welt – und drang weit in ihren Alltag ein. Dabei übertrug das Unternehmen das in der Produktion eingeübte Prinzip der Rationalisierung auf die Personalverwaltung und den Alltag in Zlín, formte seine Belegschaft und differenzierte sie. Die Arbeit analysiert Sozialreform und Personalpolitik im Schuhunternehmen Baťa und stellt die Beschäftigten der Schuhfabrik in den Mittelpunkt, von der Ausbildung an der Werkbank über die Karrieren erfolgreicher Männer und einiger weniger Frauen bis hin zum Privat- und Familienleben. Dabei verfolgt das Buch die Entwicklung und Überformung des Sozialexperiments von seinen Anfängen in der Habsburgermonarchie über die demokratische Tschechoslowakei bis zur deutschen Herrschaft im Zweiten Weltkrieg und den Anfängen des Staatssozialismus.

Karin Reichenbach: Archäologie im Kontext deutsch-polnischer Beziehungsgeschichte

Karin Reichenbach: Archäologie im Kontext deutsch-polnischer Beziehungsgeschichte. Forschungsstrukturen und Deutungsdiskurse der niederschlesischen Burgwallforschung im 20. Jahrhundert. Dresden: Sandstein 2025. ISBN: 978-3-95498-885-3.

OA: https://www.sandstein-kultur.de//openaccess/FGKoeM63.pdf

Die Burgwallforschung in Niederschlesien erzählt mehr als nur die Geschichte vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Befestigungen – sie spiegelt ein Jahrhundert politischer Umbrüche, nationaler Konflikte und wissenschaftlicher Antagonismen. Die Studie untersucht archäologische Infrastrukturen und Deutungsdiskurse in einer lange Zeit umstrittenen Grenzregion und zeigt, wie das Ausgraben und Forschen in den deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen des 20. Jahrhunderts verhaftet war. Anhand der institutionellen Entwicklungen, der prägenden Akteure und zentralen Forschungsprogramme wird die Entfaltung der Burgwallarchäologie von ihren systematischen Anfängen bis 1970 nachvollzogen. Darauf aufbauend, legt die Analyse der Deutungen von Wallanlagen diskursive Muster frei, in denen Ansprüche auf die konfliktbeladene Grenze stets widerhallten. Sie offenbaren, wie eng archäologische Deutungen und nationale Geschichtspolitik verflochten waren – vom Postulat germanischer Kontinuität und Überlegenheit in der Zwischenkriegszeit bis zur slawisch-polnischen Rückeroberungserzählung nach 1945. So wird die Burgwallarchäologie zu einem Spiegel der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungsgeschichte – und zugleich zu einem Fallbeispiel für die Bedingtheit historischer Erkenntnis. Ein Buch über Archäologie, Politik und die Verantwortlichkeit wissenschaftlicher Forschung im Spannungsfeld nationaler Narrative.

Online event: Pollution and sanitizing: Imperial environmental policy, legislation and everyday life

 Online event: Pollution and sanitizing: Imperial environmental policy, legislation and everyday life

Feb 26 (Thu), 14:00–16:00 (CET)

Anna Mazanik presents her book Sanitizing Moscow. Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press, Oct 2025)

Andrei Vinogradov presents his forthcoming book Cleaning the Empire. Industrial pollution and birth of Russia's environmental policy (CEU Press, Fall 2026)

organizer and chair: Anastasia Fedotova (St Petersburg)

Anna Mazanik is an environmental and medical historian of Russia and a research fellow at the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe. Born in Moscow, she has studied in Russia, Hungary, Germany, and the US. She holds a PhD in history from Central European University.

Sanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 1917. It explores the relationship between Russia’s urban modernization and the more-than-human environment in the context of the major social and political changes, triggered by the liberal reforms of the 1860s and 1870s, and the transnational rise of scientific medicine and sanitary technologies.

Andrey Vinogradov is an environmental historian whose research focuses on industrial pollution, climate change, and their social consequences in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig.

The rapid industrial growth that marked post-reform Russia pushed society toward an awareness of the environmental consequences of economic development. Challenging the entrenched view that industrial pollution and technological disasters first entered the political agenda as a result of Soviet forced industrialization, Andrei Vinogradov shows that environmental policy began to take shape much earlier, in conflicts between pre-revolutionary factory owners, peasants, city dumas, and ministerial officials in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Oil slicks on the Volga, toxic effluents from textile mills, and waste from sugar factories became forces that reshaped legislation and transformed the views of officials and the public on the environment.

Please register to get the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/qf41S5xPoSEbmhD48

The Zoom link will be sent before the meeting

Vnoučková, Kateřina: Okno příležitosti: Životní prostředí a přeshraniční vztahy na březích Dyje 1984–1995 [Window of Opportunity: Environment and Cross-Border Relations on the Banks of the Dyje River, 1984–1995].

 Vnoučková, Kateřina: Okno příležitosti: Životní prostředí a přeshraniční vztahy na březích Dyje 1984–1995 [Window of Opportunity: Environment and Cross-Border Relations on the Banks of the Dyje River, 1984–1995]. Karolinum 2026. ISBN: 978-80-246-6154-4

Životní prostředí spojuje – a to i přes uzavřenou hranici. Globální uvolnění napětí mezi Východem a Západem otevřelo na konci 80. let okno příležitosti pro regionální výměnu mezi jižní Moravou a Dolním Rakouskem a propojené životní prostředí nabídlo platformu pro spolupráci při obnově venkova, v ochraně přírody a při řešení znečištění. Kniha poukazuje na klíčovou roli lokálních aktérů, na kontinuitu vývoje před rokem 1989 a po něm i na důvody, proč se intenzivní spolupráce počátku 90. let nerozvinula v trvalé propojení regionů. Rozšiřuje transnacionální dějiny pozdního socialismu a transformace o regionální a environmentální perspektivu.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Epistemic Passages: Knowledge in Translation, 9–11 September 2026 in Prague

(Deadline extended to 28. February 2026)  The board of the Society for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (GWMT) invites you to the 2026 annual conference in cooperation with the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and the Prague department of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO).

The conference will take place 9–11 September 2026 in Prague and will focus on the theme:

Epistemic Passages: Knowledge in Translation

Taking the opportunity of convening in a city that over centuries experienced has the positive as well as the negative aspects of the encounter of different cultures, confessions, ideologies, or nations, the GWMT annual conference will focus on scholarly translation practices and their consequences. While translation is usually associated with so-called natural languages, our conference will extend beyond this to include knowledge moving across time, space, ideologies, religions and confessions, technical and media environments or between scholars and laypeople.

We want to focus on the dynamics of knowledge in transit and its interrelations with the settings it traverses and/or newly creates as it travels. How does knowledge become rewritten and reconceptualized to new contexts after years of being forgotten in dusky libraries? How does it change when it is appropriated into new confessional, social or ideological contexts? How does it change while travelling from discipline to discipline (as, e.g. from medicine to the humanities or vice versa)? How do scholars rewrite the knowledge of laypeople – and how do non-academics transform academic knowledge into one that is accessible for them and their networks? How does (academic) knowledge change when it is applied into practice? How is translation of knowledge technically mediated and informed?

Not only practices, but also specific understandings of translation are consequential. Assumed universality of scholarly knowledge, that only changed its attire while in transit, with facts or theories supposedly travelling without changing their content through languages, cultures, or disciplinary dialects, has long informed the politics of science’s propagation and popularisation, prioritising the academic content of communicated science over its potential to be understood by the non-academic public. Various linear models of how knowledge travels across languages and cultures underlie the modernisation-theory-based approaches to the “spread” and “communication” of science, linking thus science’s history with its present.

Therefore, the conference equally asks about the different modes of understanding translation and scholarly thinking about translation (termed ‘translation knowledge’ by Lieven D’hulst and Yves Gambier) and their repercussions. Which different ‘translation knowledges’ exist in different disciplines and how do they change over time? Which different vocabularies of translation exist, and how do they resonate with those in other fields and disciplines? Which consequences do different ‘translation knowledges’ have for the understanding of science in science-reflexive disciplines (philosophy, history, sociology of science, etc.)? How do changes of ‘translation knowledge’ impact the politics of science, science communication, discussions on technology acceptance, or the involvement of laypeople into the knowledge production labelled as citizen science? Which new conceptual or technical tools are developed, or old tools adjusted, to accommodate the changes to ‘translation knowledge’?

We welcome applications for entire panels as well as individual contributions. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Sections consist of either four presentations or three presentations with commentary and last 120 minutes, including discussion. Applications for round-tables – a discussion-oriented format focusing on a common theme, consisting of up to five speakers and a moderator, allowing at least 60 minutes for general discussion – are explicitly encouraged. Please submit abstracts of approximately half a page in length using our submission form. For sections, a short introduction to the section should be submitted in addition to the abstracts of the individual presentations. If of equal quality, sections that span academic generations will be given preference. While the preference will be given to the applications that relate to the overall topic, we will accept applications on all topics of history of medicine, science, and technology.

Languages of the conference will be English and German.

Please submit proposals by 15 February 2026, using the online submission form on the GWMT website (www.gwmt.de). Please note: This is an in-person conference; exceptions are only possible for accessibility purposes.