Cremation in Late-Stage Bell-Beaker Culture Amphoras in Southern Moravia (Including a note on the internal arrangement of Bell-Beaker Culture society). There is an interesting fi nd among the graves of the Bell Beaker Culture in south Moravia (Hostěradice and Jiřice, Znojmo region), in which cremation burial were disposed in urns – especially amphoras covered with another, upside-down vessel (usually a bowl, sometimes a smaller amphora). This intriguing fi nd is the contents of a cremation in Božice – Česká kolonie near Dvůr Hoja. There is a unique, irreplaceable item in the collection of funerary pottery from Božice – Česká kolonie (near Dvůr Hoja) – an urn containing the remains of a cremation. It is a large, wide amphora with four handles and a bulge. The “comb” decoration on its bottom with densely placed thin grooves is very rare in the Bell-Beaker Culture. The cremation inside was covered with a toppled bowl with a wider rim. The grave pit is of cylindrical shape. The grave contained the burned bones of one or two people. One group consisted of more robust human bones, while the second group was more delicate., Jaromír Kovárník., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The medieval poet and composer Záviš is known as author of religious and secular poetry, written in Latin and in Czech. Scholar works – both of musicologists and literary historians – mostly focused on his love song Jižť mne všě radost ostává, looking for its correct musical reconstruction and the proper place within the late-fourteenth-century vernacular literary tradition. The article deals with Záviš’s less studied works, which represent typical additions to the repertory of the Latin liturgical poetry. It revises the hitherto authoritative Mužík’s interpretation of the Záviš’s lai O Maria, mater Christi and its transmission, brings analysis of his tropes Kyrie Inmense conditor and Gloria Patri et filio, and compares Záviš’s output to the typical or exceptional works of the late-fourteenth / early fifteenth-century. The chants which can be today attributed to Záviš, show a strong influence by the late-medieval German repertory, knowledge of the chants once performed (only) in the St Vitus’s Cathedral, and reveal a surprising link to the contemporary poetical repertory in Northern Italy. Following this, new arguments arise supporting older hypothesis about the identification of the autor ‘Záviš’ as the influencial church official Záviš of Zapy.