PhDr. Hana Florianová

Foto pracovníka Hana Florianová

florianova@ics.cas.cz
+420 234 612 326

Department of Medieval Lexicography
scholar
ASEP
Bibliography

Research focus

  • Medieval Latin Lexicography
  • Medical Terminology
  • Medieval Medicine - editions, translations, and studies; analysis of medical texts in medieval manuscripts

Education

1981-1986 Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno (formerly J. E. Purkyně University), Master's degree program in Latin and Czech Language and Literature

1986 PhDr., Masaryk University, Brno (a post-Master’s doctoral degree in the Czech academic system, distinct from Ph.D.)


Employment history

2003- present - Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences - Medieval Latin lexicography

1990-2003 - Institute for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences - Medieval Latin lexicography

1986-1990 - Research stay at the Institute for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (supervised by PhDr.  A.  Vidmanová); focus on medieval Latin literature, especially on preparing critical editions of tractates and sermons by Jan Hus

 


Grants

1997-1999

Participation in the grant project GA ČR 401/97/0374 (main researcher: Prof. Lenka Karfíková, Palacký University, Olomouc, co-researcher: Dr. Hana Šedinová, PhD., Centre for Classical Studies of CAS, Prague) Texts on the History of Medieval Thought I.

Output: 
Cristannus de Prachaticz: De sanguinis minucione – O pouštění krve (edition of the treatise, translation, and introductory study by H. Florianová), in: Fontes Latini Bohemorum IV, Praha 1999.

 

2000-2004

Participation in the research programme MŠMT ČR LN00A011 (main researcher: Prof. Lenka Karfíková, Palacký University, Olomouc, co-researcher: Prof. Jana Nechutová, Masaryk University, Brno, and Dr. Hana Šedinová, PhD., Centre for Classical Studies of CAS, Prague) Center for patristic, medieval and renaissance texts.

Outputs:

Isidor ze Sevilly: Etymologiae IV (translation and commentary H. Florianová and K. Hušková, introductory study by F. Šimon and H. Florianová), in: Knihovna středověké tradice XI, Praha 2003.

Quadragesimale Admontense – Quadragesimale admontské (edition, translation, and commentary), co-authors: H. Šedinová, D. Martínková, Z. Silagiová, H. Florianová, in: Fontes Latini Bohemorum VI, Praha 2006.

 

2005-2007

Participation in the resarch programme MSM 6198959202 (main researcher: Prof. Pavel Floss, Palacký University, Olomouc) Center for patristic, medieval and renaissance texts.

Output:

Isidor ze Sevilly: Etymologiae XX, translation and commentary by H. Florianová, in: Isidor ze Sevilly, Etymologiae XIX–XX, in: Knihovna středověké tradice XIX, Praha 2009, pp. 226–327.

 

2013-2015

Participation in the grant project MŠMT LD 13043 Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích - Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum (main researcher: Dr. Zuzana Silagiová, Centre for Classical Studies of CAS, Prague).

 

2017-2019

Participation in the grant project GA ČR 17-06326S (main researcher: Doc. Lucie Doležalová, Ph.D., Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague) Creative Copies: The Miscellanies of Ulrich Crux de Telcz (d. 1504).

Outputs:

Florianová Hana, Texty k pouštění krve v rukopisech XIV D 24 a SOA T, A 17 (Texts on Bloodletting in Manuscripts XIV D 24 and SOA T, A 17), in: Kříž z Telče (1434-1504). Písař, sběratel a autor, edd. L. Doležalová, M. Dragoun, Praha 2020, pp. 153-169; Florianová Hana, ibid.: Lékařská diagnostika v rukopise SOA T, A 17 (Medical Diagnostics in Manuscripts SOA T, A 17), pp. 171-186.    


Fellowships and research stays

1995 - Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, München (short-term study supported by the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae)

1996-2014 - short-term studies: Katholiche Universität, Eichstätt (1996); Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Freie Universität Berlin (2000); Warburg Institute, London (2001, 2004, 2005); Universitätsbibliothek, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien (2014)


Teaching

Individual lectures within Medieval Studies courses at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague:

2012 - Lexikografický seminář (Seminar of Lexicography), lecture Středověká medicína v heslech Lexicon Bohemorum (Medieval Medicine in the Entries of the Lexicon Bohemorum)

2014 - Slovní zásoba středověké latiny ( Vocabulary of Medieval Latin), lecture Lékařská terminologie (Medical Terminology)

2015 - Úvod do medievistických disciplín a témat (Introduction to Disciplines and Themes of Medieval Studies), lecture Počátky středověké medicíny (Early Medieval Medicine)


Conference papers and lectures abroad

2006 - Prague, conference Das Wörterbuch als Inspiration, paper Die medizinische Terminologie im Jessenius´ Werk Anatomia Pragensis (1601) (Medical Terminology in Jessenius’ Work Anatomia Pragensis (1601))

2012 - München, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, conference Fachsprache(n) im mittelalterlichen Latein, paper Die Benennung und Klassifikation der Hautkrankheiten im Mittelalter (The Terminology and Classification of Skin Diseases in the Middle Ages)


Conference papers and lectures in the Czech Republic

2000 - Prague, symposium Medieval scholar M. Cristannus of Prachaticz, paper Křišťanův traktát o pouštění krve (Cristannus´ Treatise De sanguinis minucione)  

2002 - Prague, workshop Infirmarium, paper Minutio - pravidelné pouštění žilou (Minutio - Periodical Bloodletting)

2006 - Prague, symposium Johannes Jessenius and Anatomy in Prague, Institute of Anatomy, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, paper Latina Jesseniovy anatomie a problémy překladu do češtiny (The Latin of Jessenius’ Anatomy and Problems of itsTranslation into Czech)

2016 - Prague, Lexikographische Matinee, lectures for the students of the university of Rostock, lecture Die medizinischen Termini im Lexicon Bohemorum (Medical Terminology in the Lexicon Bohemorum)

Summer School of Classical Studies:

1996 - Prague, lecture Pouštění krve a co s tím souvisí - středověká hematoskopie (Bloodletting and Its Methods - Medieval Hematoscopy)

2015 - Broumov, lecture Medicína v klášterním prostředí (Medicine in the Monasteries)

2019 - Kutná Hora, lecture Léčivé látky, jejich vlastnosti, druhy a formy v lékařském kompendiu z roku 1407 (Medicinal Substances, Their Properties, Types, and Forms in a 1407 Medical Compendium)

 


Popularization

Popular Lectures at the Centre for Classical Studies:

2011 – O Slovníku středověké latiny v českých zemích - základní informace, rukopisné prameny a prameny ze starých tisků (About the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in the Czech Lands - Basic Information, Manuscript Sources, and Sources from Early Prints)

2014 – Nemoci neznámé i známé - exkurz do středověké lékařské terminologie aneb co zjistíme ze Slovníku středověké latiny (Diseases Known and Unknown - An Excursion into Medieval Medical Terminology or What We Can Learn from the Dictionary of Medieval Latin)


Current projects

1. Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum (team project) 

2. Medieval Medicine and Medical Terminology 

3. Analysis of medical texts in medieval manuscripts

4.  2017 – Established collaboration with MUDr. A. Ivanov (Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Kladno – Czech Technical University in Prague) on the history of healing practices.

5. Collaboration with Dr. Peter Kováč on the book series Stavitelé katedrál (Builders of Cathedrals, art-historical studies on medieval architecture with Latin contemporary documents): translations of Latin documents in volumes I–IV (2007–2013, supervisor of Latin text translations), and in volume V (2018).