Jiří Dynda
Czech researcher with interests in religious studies, folklore and medieval studies
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Jiří Dynda (born 1988) is a Czech researcher with interests in religious studies, folklore and medieval studies.[1][2]
As of 2023[update] he is with the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.[3][4]
In 2021 he earned his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis: "Gods and Demons: The Construction of the Slavic Paganism in the Medieval Textual Sources".[5]
Monographs
- Slovanské pohanství ve středověkých ruských kázáních. Praha: Scriptorium, 2019 ISBN 978-80-88013-87-7.
- Slovanské pohanství ve středověkých latinských pramenech. Praha: Scriptorium, 2017, 2023 ISBN 978-80-88013-52-5; 978-80-7649-050-5.
- Svjatogor : smrt a iniciace staroruského bohatýra. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart ISBN 978-80-7465-242-4.
- (editor, with others) Staré baby : ženy a čas ve středověké Evropě. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny 2021 ISBN 978-80-7422-786-8.
Awards
- 2023: Otto Wichterle Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in humanities and social sciences[4]
- 2022: Award of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic in the "junior researcher" category for outstanding scientific contribution in the field of Paleo-Slavic studies and research into the pre-Christian religion of the Slavs[2][3]
