Institute of Archaeology
Topic
Development of the cultural historical landscape in mountain areas with a focus on landscape transformations in the Middle Ages and early modern times (comparison of landscape transformations in Western and Central Europe in the castle estates of Laroche
PhD. program
Name of the supervisor
PhDr. Peter Bednár, CSc.
Contact:
Receiving school
Comenius University Bratislava
Annotation
A comparison of the economic use the highlands regions in the three castle domains, the first in the Western Europe (Laroche Castle domain, Burgundy, France) and two domains in the Central Europe, Brtnice Castle domain (Brtnice domain, Moravia) and Krásna Hôrka Castle domain (Krásna Hôrka Castle estate, Slovakia). These are aristocratic castles that played an important role in the settlement of mountainous regions. The thesis should compare the current state of the cultural-historical landscape. Retrospective method of modelation of the landuse, using archaeological, written and cartographic sources, reconstructs and compares models of medieval and early modern landscape, forms of its settlement, economic use. The work should include field survey using as much as possible non-destructive and low-destructive methods of historical landscape research (geophysical prospecting methods, surface collections, metal detector surveys, verification and pedological microprobe surveys, the use of 3D and DEM landscape modelling).
The aim is to compare the development and changes in cultural landscape following the ancient legal and economic traditions (Burgundy) with culture landscape in which there are strong Western European influences in the legal system (Moravia) and at last the Hungarian cultural landscape, where these influences were less intensive. It is assumed that the legal norms and normative cultural landscape only arrived here during the period of the settlement of the country in the period of medieval colonisation.
The aim of this dissertation will be to compare anthropogenic influences and attempt to establish models of the development and transformations of the normative landscape in the regions under study.
The dissertation will be based on and build on the results of the previous prospection of Masaryk University in Brno (J. Mazáčková) in Burgundy and Moravia and the initial results of the prospection in the area of The Krásná Hôrka castle.
The aim is to compare the development and changes in cultural landscape following the ancient legal and economic traditions (Burgundy) with culture landscape in which there are strong Western European influences in the legal system (Moravia) and at last the Hungarian cultural landscape, where these influences were less intensive. It is assumed that the legal norms and normative cultural landscape only arrived here during the period of the settlement of the country in the period of medieval colonisation.
The aim of this dissertation will be to compare anthropogenic influences and attempt to establish models of the development and transformations of the normative landscape in the regions under study.
The dissertation will be based on and build on the results of the previous prospection of Masaryk University in Brno (J. Mazáčková) in Burgundy and Moravia and the initial results of the prospection in the area of The Krásná Hôrka castle.