Sto let české a moravské kulturní historie prizmatem časopisu Vinařský obzor

• Main Author: Kollárová, Klára
• Other Authors: Matějů, Martin
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-274606

In my diploma work the ma in subject of interest is wine. Wine is certainly part of culture and so represents an excellent culturological problem. During my sommelier career I have noticed that wine is not only drink but can have very different meanings. It has influenced our culture, history, aesthetics and arts, religion and theology, economics and trade, habits and everyday life too. In this paper I study wine phenomenon through the journal ,Wine Horizon' which is the only wine magazine that constantly appeares in Czech and Moravian lands from 1907. Written form is also excellent material for culturological research. In my work I compared five different annual volumes of this journal with approx. 25 years gaps. It allowed me to compare what were the most discussed themes in each year, what were (if there were any) the common subjects and which were different ones. I have selected 12 cathegories of different aspects of wine (wine growing and cellaring, history of wine, wine abroad, wine laws, serving wine, wine and food and so on, women and wine) and went through the journal and searched for any comments about and compared notions about these in different volumes. The main idea was to find whether a journal writting about such ,culturological' subject is actually refering about it from different points of...