The author follows up to his previous study about ways of determining proximity and pointed his attention to another way of orientation in the terrain and identification of localities in the medieval texts from Czech Lands. Now a large semantic analyzes of some crucial words creating various ways of determining proximity has been done. The author used mainly texts of chronicles and charters, two quite distinct types of sources. Their mutual confrontation increased the testifying value of acquired information. He describes the relatively big variety and narrowness of meanings of concrete expressions determining direction, as well as essential binding of this information with the concrete situation in the terrain illustrating the medieval concept of space perception. The study follows the development of semantic fields of studied terms and depicts the shift after the period of colonization and social and economic changes in the 13th century.
The aim of the article is to analyze ways of determining the direction from in Latin texts from the Czech lands written between 12th and 14th centuries. Semantic fields of three prepositions meaning from have been analyzed in detail which enabled to draw the attention to some aspects of perception of the space of that period.
The author pointed his attention to this special way of orientation in the terrain and identification of localities. A large semantic analyzes of some crucial words creating various ways of determining proximity has been done. The author used mainly texts of chronicles and charters, two quite distinct types of sources. Their mutual confrontation increased the testifying value of acquired information. He describes the relativem big variety and narrowness of meanings of concrete expressions defining proximity and tries to explain the difference from modern type of usage of similar terms by the relationship between to different concepts of space. The study follows the development of semantic fields of studied terms and depicts the shift after the period of colonization and social and economic changes in the 13th century.
The purpose of this paper was to verify the location of Osek Mountain mentioned in Cosmas’ Chronicle in the first quarter of the 12th century and the use of data from the text of the chronicle and charters from Zbraslav Monastery from the 14th century for analysis of the route of the path in the respektive area. Authors of the article conducted a large surface research and tried to briefly describe the development of the network of paths in the south-western vicinity of Prague; they specifically focused on the reconstruction of the route of the early medieval long-distance path to South Bohemia which passed over Osek Mountain after wading the river Berounka in a difficult spot.
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