The aim of the article is to introduce female characters of Serbian epic poems and Ukrainian dumas in comparative perspective. The focus is laid on the roles and characteristics attributed to women in epic poems relating to the Battle of Kosovo and dumas describing the period of the battles between Cossacks and Turko-Tatar tribes. It is argued that although women in folk literatuře usually have a passive role and their main function is to emphasize the importance of the male sacrifice, there are also examples of active female characters who make their own decisions and thereby influence their own destiny as well as the destiny of others.
Práce se snaží přispět k odstranění diskrepance mezi datováním mužských a ženských hrobů na velkomoravských pohřebištích, její příčinou je mj. pozdní datování veligradského šperku. Zabývá se několika stratigraficky nízko uloženými hroby ze Starého Města Na valách, které obsahují vyspělý veligradský šperk. Některé jeho typy vykazují podobnost se šperkem známým z pozdně avarského prostředí, což ukazuje, že veligradský šperk existoval již od počátku velkomoravského období a zřejmě ještě dříve. Vedle Starého Města lze i na některých venkovských pohřebištích (Dolní Věstonice, Prušánky) vyčlenit skupinu ozdob, které tvoří náplň tzv. předköttlašského horizontu, známého z pohřebišť typu Sopronkőhida-Pitten-Pottenbrunn a datovatelného do 4. čtvrtiny 8. století. Sledováním výskytu ozdob typických pro tento horizont lze na raně středověkých pohřebištích na Moravě a jihozápadním Slovensku vyčlenit ženské hroby, které byly uloženy v průběhu staršího velkomoravského období. and On the female jewellery of the Early Great Moravian period. This article aims to contribute to removing the discrepancy between the dating of male and female graves from Great Moravian cemeteries, amongst the causes of which is the late dating of the Veligrad jewellery set. It considers several, stratigraphically low-lying graves from Staré Město – Na valách that contain mature Veligrad jewellery; several of the types display similarities to jewellery known from the Late Avar milieu, which indicates that Veligrad jewellery existed at the beginning of the Great Moravian period and apparently even earlier. It is not only to Staré Město but also to several rural cemeteries (Dolní Věstonice, Prušánky) that the group of decorations comprising the fill of the “pre-Köttlach“ horizon, known from cemeteries of the Sopronkőhida-Pitten-Pottenbrunn type and dated to the last quarter of the 8th century, can be assigned. By following the appearance of decorations typical of this horizon it is possible for Early Medieval cemeteries in Moravia and South- West Slovakia to distinguish female burials interred during the Early Great Moravian period.
From the 1870s on, the objective of the feminist movement had became the foundation of school that would allow the professional education of girls. In this endeavor played an important role the Female Manufacturing Czech Society (Ženský výrobní spolek český, hereafter ŽVSČ). This society was founded in the year 1871 and at its birth stood for example Karolina Světlá, Sofie Podlipská, Věnceslava Lužická-Srbová and the husband and wife Náprstek. The structure of the society and the school for girls founded by it were probably inspired by similar institutions already existing abroad (in London and Vienna). The school of ŽVSČ, called business-industrial school, was supposed to pursue the so called industrial education. This educational style served for the preparation of the girls far family life, but also far independent life, and journalists of the time assessed it in principle affirmatively, because it in no way violated the traditional image of the role of women in society. The school was divided to five different branches, of which the most popular was the language cour se and the business cour se. At all 293 pupils enrolled in the first year and in the next years their number rose steadily, so that in the year 1874 there were already 505 girls attending the school. The leaders of the society also accentuated the idea of social solidarity and so every year they for gave the tuition to girls from poor families and the school fees were relatively low in comparison with other schools (1-3 guldens monthly). A great interest was aroused by the short-term nuring cour ses whose graduates acquired nursing diplomas. An extraordinary exploit represented the establishment of the so called „request chamber“ that helped women to look for work. In the 1880s thepersonalities at the head of the society had changed, but its activities remained unchanged. After the withdrawal of Karolina Světlá the main authority became Eliška Krásnohorská who was at the same time the editor of the journal „Woman Paper“ (Ženské listy), the school had been directed by Johanna Kuffnerová since 1885. The members of the society aimed towards the preservation of its good reputation and the justification of the existence of the school; in this respect a major role was played by Eliška Krásnohorská and her publication activities. An occasion for the presentation in public became the 25th anniversary of ŽVSČ when new school building was inaugurated. The society came to an end only in 1957, but already since the beginnig of the twentieth centuty its influence decreased and in the last years of its existence it limited itself only to the preservation of the memory of Eliška Krásnohorská.