Paměti Přibíka a Jana Bukovanských Pintů z Bukovan. Teze edičního projektu

Abstract

The main aim of the prepared research project is to make the rare copy of the memoirs of Přibik and John Bukovanský Pinta of Bukovany accessible in the form of an edition and to interpret it insightfully. This is, in terms of content, a very colourful ego-document which puts on display and testifies to the values, ideas and concepts and also the public presentation of the members of two generations of this not so well known lesser noble family. As one of the few compact documents relating to the means of sophisticated self-presentation of a knight from the time before the battle of White Mountain, it deserves to be published as a modern critical edition equipped with an extended foot-note apparatus. One important part of the work is represented by a study that will focus, from the historical-anthropological point of view, on the lives of both authors of the memoirs. Their notes help, along with the messages of aristocratic correspondence, bonds, bills, testaments and other items of material culture, to carry out research not only into the lives of each of the knights of Bukovany, but also into a wide range of topics that are, in the wider context, applied in Czech as well as in foreign historical research into the changes of noble society. The final publication, due to its wide range of topics, will be a contribution to the social, political and economic history of the Bohemian lesser nobility in the 16th and in the first half of the 17th century.