Ota Pavlicek
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …” - Isaac Asimov
I specialise in the history of knowledge production at Late Medieval and Early Modern European universities, being particularly interested in Central European Faculties of Liberal Arts and links to their counterparts in Western Europe. Systematically, my research interests include philosophical (metaphysics, logic, astrology) and theological (mostly philosophical theology) discussions, the Reformation’s philosophical background, and intellectual practice. I am also interested in various types of debates, including the Arts quodlibets. I also research the area of Digital Humanities in relation to textual corpora of Late Medieval and Early Modern scholarly texts.
I have run various projects in both fields, including a project on the 1409 Prague quodlibetal debate financed by the Czech National Scientific Foundation and the UniQ digital project on the Central European struggle over universals. My current primary project is ERC ACADEMIA, which reconstructs the Arts quodlibetal tradition in ca. 1370–1700. I am also interested in the transfer of the results of basic research in the humanities into applied research, in particular through digital technologies within the scope of Digital Humanities.
In 2014, I defended my doctoral thesis on the doctrines of Jerome of Prague, and continued my work on the history of the thought of masters at the Late Medieval University of Prague. Together with František Šmahel, I edited A Companion to Jan Hus (Brill, 2015). I also served as editor of a thematic block on the philosophical thought of Jan Hus and his teachers (in Filosofický časopis [Journal of Philosophy], 2015). Furthermore, I have edited a collaborative volume on Jerome of Prague (Filosofia, 2018) and a volume on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge (Brepols, 2021).
From 2007 to 2014 I co-organised symposia on The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice and coordinated the editorial process for the volumes of the same name. In 2016 I started a series of international conferences on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia and of International Consultation on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia workshops. Beginning in 2022, I started to organise a series of lectures entitled Prague Talks on Digital Humanities, recordings of some of which can be found on the Institute of Philosophy’s YouTube Channel. In 2023, Brepols publishers and I started the editorial series Intellectual Practice and Thought at Late Medieval and Early Modern Universities (1300-1550).
I have two children, a boy (*2015) and a girl (*2017).
My more or less complete bibliography and CV may be found at the following link:
https://ancientmedieval.flu.cas.cz/en/people/triptic-eu/10-lide/205-ota-pavlicek
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Supervisors: Ruedi Imbach, Vilém Herold, and Zénon Kaluza
Address: Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Jilská 1
110 00 - Prague 1
Czech Republic
I specialise in the history of knowledge production at Late Medieval and Early Modern European universities, being particularly interested in Central European Faculties of Liberal Arts and links to their counterparts in Western Europe. Systematically, my research interests include philosophical (metaphysics, logic, astrology) and theological (mostly philosophical theology) discussions, the Reformation’s philosophical background, and intellectual practice. I am also interested in various types of debates, including the Arts quodlibets. I also research the area of Digital Humanities in relation to textual corpora of Late Medieval and Early Modern scholarly texts.
I have run various projects in both fields, including a project on the 1409 Prague quodlibetal debate financed by the Czech National Scientific Foundation and the UniQ digital project on the Central European struggle over universals. My current primary project is ERC ACADEMIA, which reconstructs the Arts quodlibetal tradition in ca. 1370–1700. I am also interested in the transfer of the results of basic research in the humanities into applied research, in particular through digital technologies within the scope of Digital Humanities.
In 2014, I defended my doctoral thesis on the doctrines of Jerome of Prague, and continued my work on the history of the thought of masters at the Late Medieval University of Prague. Together with František Šmahel, I edited A Companion to Jan Hus (Brill, 2015). I also served as editor of a thematic block on the philosophical thought of Jan Hus and his teachers (in Filosofický časopis [Journal of Philosophy], 2015). Furthermore, I have edited a collaborative volume on Jerome of Prague (Filosofia, 2018) and a volume on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge (Brepols, 2021).
From 2007 to 2014 I co-organised symposia on The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice and coordinated the editorial process for the volumes of the same name. In 2016 I started a series of international conferences on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia and of International Consultation on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia workshops. Beginning in 2022, I started to organise a series of lectures entitled Prague Talks on Digital Humanities, recordings of some of which can be found on the Institute of Philosophy’s YouTube Channel. In 2023, Brepols publishers and I started the editorial series Intellectual Practice and Thought at Late Medieval and Early Modern Universities (1300-1550).
I have two children, a boy (*2015) and a girl (*2017).
My more or less complete bibliography and CV may be found at the following link:
https://ancientmedieval.flu.cas.cz/en/people/triptic-eu/10-lide/205-ota-pavlicek
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Supervisors: Ruedi Imbach, Vilém Herold, and Zénon Kaluza
Address: Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Jilská 1
110 00 - Prague 1
Czech Republic
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Experts and students alike will profit from this guide to Jan Hus, who was well known as follower of John Wyclif and forerunner of Martin Luther. Burning of Jan Hus at the stake at the Council of Constance gave rise in Bohemia to religious and social revolt that ushered the European reformations of the 16th century.
[Jeroným Pražský (+1416) patřil k nejvýraznějším postavám počátků husitského hnutí. Jako mistr svobodných umění, myslitel, brilantni řečník a také diplomat svým počínáním ovlivnil pražské univerzity i českých zemí a v důsledku i sousedících regionů a center vzdělanosti. Po odsouzení kostnickým koncilem a smrti upálením se tento český myslitel stal podobně jako jeho přítel Jan Hus mučedníkem české i evropské církevní reformace, a nejpozději v 19. století i hrdinou národní tradice. Studie předložené v této kolektivní monografii se zabývají Jeronýmovým myšlením a jeho místem v různých myšlenkových tradicích, zároveň mapují jeho druhý život prostřednictvím zkoumání způsobu, jakým byl vyobrazován a jak mu byla projevována úcta. Věnují se také Jeronýmově roli v dobách národního vzepětí v 19. a 20. století. Kniha přináší i zamyšlení nad místem Jeronýma Pražského ve vědeckém díle předních českých historiků, nebo pojednání o jeho cestách a činnosti v Litevském velkoknížectví, kde se mohl sblížit s pravoslavím.]
[Povědomí o tradici pražské utrakvistické univerzity a jejím pedagogickém, vědeckém a obecně kulturním a politickém působení od 15. do 17. století je v širší veřejnosti nevelké a rovněž v akademické obci se ještě dnes můžeme setkat s jistou distancí vůči "husitství", tj. české reformaci, jako by šlo o něco barbarského, bez vazby na evropskou a západní kulturu. Na krátkých životopisech několika vybraných osobností, spojených svým životem a dílem s pražskou Univerzitou Karlovou pozdního středověku a raného novověku, se pokoušíme ukázat, že i tehdy byla Praha jedním z center evropského intelektuálního kvasu.]
Studies and Articles by Ota Pavlicek
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1151-5_255-2
Experts and students alike will profit from this guide to Jan Hus, who was well known as follower of John Wyclif and forerunner of Martin Luther. Burning of Jan Hus at the stake at the Council of Constance gave rise in Bohemia to religious and social revolt that ushered the European reformations of the 16th century.
[Jeroným Pražský (+1416) patřil k nejvýraznějším postavám počátků husitského hnutí. Jako mistr svobodných umění, myslitel, brilantni řečník a také diplomat svým počínáním ovlivnil pražské univerzity i českých zemí a v důsledku i sousedících regionů a center vzdělanosti. Po odsouzení kostnickým koncilem a smrti upálením se tento český myslitel stal podobně jako jeho přítel Jan Hus mučedníkem české i evropské církevní reformace, a nejpozději v 19. století i hrdinou národní tradice. Studie předložené v této kolektivní monografii se zabývají Jeronýmovým myšlením a jeho místem v různých myšlenkových tradicích, zároveň mapují jeho druhý život prostřednictvím zkoumání způsobu, jakým byl vyobrazován a jak mu byla projevována úcta. Věnují se také Jeronýmově roli v dobách národního vzepětí v 19. a 20. století. Kniha přináší i zamyšlení nad místem Jeronýma Pražského ve vědeckém díle předních českých historiků, nebo pojednání o jeho cestách a činnosti v Litevském velkoknížectví, kde se mohl sblížit s pravoslavím.]
[Povědomí o tradici pražské utrakvistické univerzity a jejím pedagogickém, vědeckém a obecně kulturním a politickém působení od 15. do 17. století je v širší veřejnosti nevelké a rovněž v akademické obci se ještě dnes můžeme setkat s jistou distancí vůči "husitství", tj. české reformaci, jako by šlo o něco barbarského, bez vazby na evropskou a západní kulturu. Na krátkých životopisech několika vybraných osobností, spojených svým životem a dílem s pražskou Univerzitou Karlovou pozdního středověku a raného novověku, se pokoušíme ukázat, že i tehdy byla Praha jedním z center evropského intelektuálního kvasu.]
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1151-5_255-2
The conference will be hybrid (in-person and online). Only participants giving a paper will be accepted to participate in person.
We invite other interested colleagues to register by filling in the form at the following link:
https://forms.gle/KxDsa5fgWRCLQiCQ7
Only registered colleagues will receive a Zoom link to participate in the meeting virtually.
3–4 December 2018, Milano, Italy
11–12 December 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
[Click on "2 files" if you cannot see the poster properly] The University of Prague, founded in 1348 as the first European university east of the Rhine and north of the Alps, was one of the most important universities in the Holy Roman Empire until the crisis of 1409, when German scholars left Prague. Its students and teachers hailed from almost every corner of Europe, with the majority coming from Central Europe. Since its foundation, the university had accepted the doctrines of other European centres of learning, such as Oxford and Paris, but also gradually began to serve as an institution that produced and disseminated knowledge to other universities and schools, such as Cracow.
Similar to its 2016 predecessor (https://bit.ly/33pLXKp), this conference aims to explore better the processes of the production, reception and transmission of knowledge in Central Europe, with an emphasis on the University of Prague and in particular its Faculty of Arts around 1348–1500. We welcome proposals that focus on the doctrines and texts associated with the Prague Faculty of Arts and its students and masters (including physicians and theologians), as well as papers dealing with broader topics in which the Prague Faculty of Arts and its members played a part or had a more distant role. Proposals covering other centres of knowledge in connection with the Prague Faculty of Arts as well as contributions to the study of philosophy and other related disciplines in medieval Bohemia outside the Faculty of Arts are also welcome.
Keynotes: Christopher David Schabel & Monica Brinzei
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, Prague, Czech Republic, June 6th, 2019.
Deadline for abstracts (c. 200 words) April 1st, to be sent to [email protected].
Notification of acceptance April 10th, 2019.
A series of talks on Digital Humanities
Digitizing the Past: Prague Talks on Digital Humanities
Join us for a series of 45-minute talks by European scholars and experts who will discuss their projects and methods in Digital Humanities and talk about the challenges and opportunities they represent.
Programme in April:
Kaspar Gubler (University of Bern, Switzerland), Digital Humanities as Data Science: Potentials and Limits
April 27, 14:00, online
Digital humanities is an umbrella term for disciplines in the humanities that focus on research with digital resources and tools. As diverse as the disciplines are, so are their methods and approaches to digital research. For example, machine learning, network analyses or data visualisations, with which we can recognise new patterns, connections and developments in the research data. In these diverse research processes, data science, as will be shown in the presentation, can support the digital humanities by focusing on the quality, consistency and informational value of research data and thus reflecting on the potentials and limitations of digital research in the humanities at the same time.
May 25, 2022, 2 p.m.
Roman Bleier (Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and
Humanities and Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz).
Florian Zeilinger (Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
and Humanities - currently, and the University of Graz, May 20 – June 30)
Digital Scholarly Editions and historians: editing the records of the Imperial Diet of 1576 (ONLINE).
Abstract
A team of researchers at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of
Sciences and Humanities and the University of Graz are developing a digital
scholarly edition of the records documenting the Imperial Diet (Reichstag) of
Regensburg in 1576. At the Imperial Diet, between June and October 1576,
Emperor Maximilian II and more than 200 representatives of the imperial estates
(Reichsstände) of the Holy Roman Empire discussed and decided about the
political fate of Central Europe. The numerous meetings and deliberations at the
Imperial Diet are of central interest to the ongoing project and new digital
edition.
From a digital scholarly editing point of view, the project explores a particular
way of editing historical documents (seen as a text characterised by its content)
and representing the formal information, for instance about the above-mentioned
deliberations, as structured data in RDF. This kind of editing is a further
development of editing practices used by historians–in a recent article Georg
Vogeler suggested the name “assertive edition”.
Our presentation will explore this editing approach in the context of the Imperial Diet's records edition. We will discuss how we have edited the historical records and
semantically enriched them with TEI markup, how we extract “facts” in the form of
RDF triples, and how we combine the edited texts with a database. This approach
allows us to access the Imperial Diet of 1576 as a bundle of communication
events and thereby opens it up for historiographical research interested in
content, communication and procedures.
To join this lecture please register at https://bit.ly/register-bleier.