Institute of History
Topic
Marginalisation of a Selected Group in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period
PhD. program
World History
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Blanka Szeghyová, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava
Annotation
The aim of the dissertation is to investigate the phenomenon of marginalization in a suitably defined period (or even region) on a selected group of the population. It can be a socially excluded group based on ethnicity, lifestyle, poverty, employment or religion (e.g. Jews, Roma, vagrants, beggars, prostitutes and other so-called dishonest occupations). The topic might be explored in different levels and aspects: 1. Legal - restrictions and sanctions against the group in laws, regulations and statutes 2. judicial practice - local strategies and practices, possibly comparison with the legal prescriptive sources, whether they agreed or differed 3. discursive level – legal-theoretical, ecclesiastical, philosophical and other learned opinions 4. reflection of the issue in art (visual, literary) 5. reflection in popular culture. By combining the various sources analysed, the PhD student will note the extent and spread of social exclusion, the diversity of attitudes, the phenomena concomitant with marginalisation (stereotyping, scapegoating, criminalisation, persecution) and the developmental changes in attitudes. The student can compare the findings with developments in Western Europe, pointing out any patterns, similarities or differences.
Prerequisite: good knowledge of the language(s) of the relevant archival sources (usually Latin, German or Hungarian), Slovak/Czech or English.
Prerequisite: good knowledge of the language(s) of the relevant archival sources (usually Latin, German or Hungarian), Slovak/Czech or English.