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The Saint and Hallow Polish Martyrs In The Course of Centuries The objective of thesis "The Saint and Hallow Polish Martyrs In The Course of Centuries" is the introduction of selected Polish martyrs from the middle ages until the end of the 20th century. The thesis follow their cult development from its origin until present, including related demonstration of art, in particular the development of iconography. They also follow the influence of life example and the subsequent cult of the martyrs on the society at that time, as well as the spiritual and national awareness of the following generations. In this connection, they also give attention to particularities of the Polish national history, the constitutional arrangement, the artistic and culture relationships and environment and the history of the Catholic Church in Poland. Each chapter, which is introducing a Saint or a group of martyrs, is divided into three parts - the epoch, the life, the cult and iconography. The objective of this division is the schema of historical conditions in which the personality of the Saint was formed. These historical conditions were also determine for the martyrdom. The next parts of the chapters deal with a brief biography of the Saint and the summary of significant moments in the development of the Saint's cult...

The aim of the bachelor's thesis about renaissance furniture and interior in Central Europe is the presentation of renaissance furniture-making and the culture of habitation in Central Europe in culturally historic continuities. In defines the specific principle of furniture creations demonstrated by concrete examples in the following catalogue part. The introduction to the probleme is presenting in the first chapter a summary of the preceding development of furniture art and the whole culture of habitation in Europe. In the second chapter there has been mapped the pervasive change, which the cultur of habitation hat gone trough in the territory of Central Europe during the 16th and the half of the 17th century describing the typological extension of used furniture. At the same time i tis concerning itself with the ideological origins and the historical conditions and the impact upon the whole appearance of the interior. The third chapter is briefly characterizing the production of furniture from the point of wiew of technology, the material structure, the construction and means of production. It is describing the mostly amplified used decoration tenique, and its inspirations. Besides these technical aspects i tis pursuing the economically social backgroud of the produktion of furniture in Central...

The starting point of this piece of work is proposition that television and its texts are an agent of the dominant ideology in society. Through the princip of hegemony the rulling class imposes its meanings and values on the subordinated classes. Hegemony is based on allowing resistent and alternative meanings which are nevertheless articulated in terms of the dominant ideology and are subsequently incorporated into the existing system. This thesis then follows John Fiske's understanding of popular culture and activated texts . These are texts which do not imp lose one limited meani ng on its readers, but which allow its readers by means of various strategies to interpret the text with regards to their social position. The second part of this work includes semiological analysis of a particular product of popular culture - the television serial Misto nahore. The emphasis is put on the process of encoding - how the dominant meanings and values are encoded and implied in the text. Besides, the attention is directed towards the 'opening' strategies of the text. This section also includes an analysis of the secondary texts (newspaper and magazine articles ) and terciary texts (viewers' reacti ons and opinions on the web). I examine whether the sec ondary texts promote dom inant or resistant reading strategies,...