Přemysl Bar studied history and auxiliary sciences of history at Masaryk University in Brno. In 2011, heobtained his Ph.D. for a thesis on dukes of Silesia in 13th Century. Since 2011, he has been working at Masaryk University in Brno (Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Regesta Imperii – Brno). From 2012 – 2017, he held a research fellowship at Institute for Medieval Research (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in Vienna. His research interestsinclude late medieval charters, diplomacy, the reign of Sigismund of Luxemburg and conflict between the Teutonic Order and the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth. His has published a book on this topic (MUNI Press 2017, in Czech): Diplomacy, Law and Propaganda in the Late Middle Ages: the Polish–Lithuanian Union and the Order of Teutonic Knights at the Council of Constance (1414–1418). As a co-editor he has participated in the publication of two volumes of Sigismund’s charters from South and West Bohemia (Böhlau 2015, 2016).
In the ExPro project, Přemysl Bar works on the topic The Teutonic Order and Sigismund of Luxembourg in the dynastic quarrels in the period ofWladislaus Jagiello (1386-1434) (Module 2: King and Conflict).
Pavel @MUNI homepage // @Academia.edu
Stanislav Bárta studied history and archival science at Masaryk University in Brno. In 2015, he obtained his Ph.D. for a thesis on deeds of pledge of Sigismund of Luxembourg for the church estates (published 2016). Since 2011, he has been working at Masaryk University within Regesta Imperii Branch Office Brno, since 2014 as an instructor and department vice-head in Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies as well. His research interests include late mediaeval diplomatics, financial politics of Sigismund of Luxembourg and archival theory. As a co-editor he has participated in the publication of two volumes of Sigismund’s charters from South and West Bohemia (Böhlau 2015, 2016).
In the Expro project, Stanislav Bárta works on the topic: Money in Controversies: Financial Aspects of Late Medieval Conflicts.
Stanislav @Masaryk University
Vojtěch Bažant studied history at Charles University and he prepares Ph.D. thesis there as well. Within the Eramus programme he studied at Université Montpellier 3, Université Rennes 2 and at Eötvös Lóránd Tudományegyetem in Budapest. Since 2017, he has been working as a researcher at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. His research interests include literary aspects of late medieval historiography and medieval travel literature. He has prepared a volume on perception of the other (Filosofia 2016) and on relations between comic and serious in medieval cultures (NLN 2019).
In the ExPro project, Vojtěch Bažant works on the topic of historiography as an instrument of contemporary conflicts within the Module 3: Seeking a New Order: Conflict as a Catalyst of Social Transformation.
Vojtěch @CMS homepage
Pavlína Cermanová studied history at Charles University in Prague. In 2010, she obtained the PhD for a thesis on apocalyptic thinking in Hussite Bohemia. Since 2008, she has been working partly at the University of Konstanz and the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. From 2011–2013, she worked at the Institut für Mittelalterforschung ÖAW in Vienna as a member of the research team in the ERC Starting grant “The Origins of Vernacular Mode”. Since 2017, she is the investigator in the project “Transmission of Knowledge. The Fortune of Four Bestsellers in Late Medieval Czech Lands”. Her research interests consist in analyzing medieval apocalyptic thinking, prophetic texts and pseudo-Aristoteles’ texts in the Middle Ages. She has published a book on apocalyptic thinking in medieval Bohemia (Argo 2013).
In the ExPro project, Pavlína Cermanová works on the topic of the discord within the internally-diverse Hussite movement, the strategies of conflict management between Hussite groups/scholars and formation of Hussite radical religious fractions. Her work is a part of Module 1.
Pavlína @CMS homepage
Dušan Coufal studied church history and protestant theology at Charles University in Prague. In 2012, he obtained his Ph.D. for a thesis on intellectual controversy over the Hussite chalice. In 2007-2011 and 2013-2015 he collaborated on the editing of Jan Hus’s work in the team of Jana Nechutová in Brno. Since 2014, he has been working at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Prague. He has published book on the controversy over the Hussite chalice (Kalich 2012), and was co-editor of two volumes of Jan Hus’s opera omnia (Brepols 2013 and 2015).
In the ExPro project, Dušan Coufal works on the topic Religious and political negotiations between the Hussites and the Council of Basel, 1431-1437,as a member of the Module 1: Religious Controversy in the Long Fifteenth Century.
Dušan @CMS homepage
Petr Elbel studied history and auxiliary historical sciences at Masaryk University in Brno. In 2008, he obtained his Ph.D. for a thesis on Catholic Church administration in Moravia in the Hussite period. From 2004–2014 he worked at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, working group Regesta Imperii. Since 2005 he has been working at the Masaryk University as well, since 2014 as a head of Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies. His research interests include church history, charters and diplomatics, political and military history of the Late Middle Ages. He participated in three volumes of the calendar-edition of Emperor Sigismund charters (Böhlau 2012, 2015 and 2016) and published a book concerning truces in the Hussite wars (MUNIpress 2016).
In the Expro project, Petr Elbel works on the topic Rex arbiter: the arbitrating panel as an institution of King Sigismund’s policy in the Holy Roman Empire.
Petr @Masaryk University
Klara Hübner studied history, Italian language and literature and medieval history of arts at the University of Bern, Neuchatel (CH) and Bologna (IT). She has been doing research and teaching at several Swiss universities, e.g. Bern (1998-2006), Fribourg (2008-2013) and Luzern (2010/12). In her Ph.D. (Bern, 2008, published: 2012, Mittelalter Forschungen ) she dealt with the communication and messaging systems of the late medieval Swiss confederates and the towns of the upper Rhine region. Beside communication, her interests include all manifestation of political cultural history, mostly in the Late Middle Ages, such as the formation of alliance systems, medieval bilingualism and recently the defamation of kings and its i