Study plan

Together with the dissertation, students hand in the autoreferate that has been, in the ideal case, successfully presented in front of an audience, e. g. at a conference organized for doctoral students home or abroad. The autoreferate is drawn up in writing and in accord with general rules of doctoral programmes of the Faculty.
The doctoral state exam consists of the thesis defence and the student's answers to questions related to broader topics, with which the student is familiarized in advance.
The content of the state doctoral exam is subject to change based on the topic of the student's dissertation, it nevertheless always include questions related to ancient history or the intermediate period between Prehistory and Antiquity in the main cultural areas, and the intermediate period between Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
An overview of Antiquity's main characteristics (state, society, thought), of ancient studies' methodology, of ancient period's cultural benefits is particularly required.

During their studies, students will publish two articles and a review in peer reviewed scholarly journals.
They will attend (actively) at least one foreign or domestic conference.
They will complete one internship abroad of at least 1 month.
They will teach two hours a week during at least one semester.

Suggestions of topics:
Nomads in ancient sources
Sidonius Apollinaris as a witness to Late Antiquity
Flavius Merobaudes and Dracontius as witnesses to Late Antiquity (together with examples of Flavius Merobaudes' works)
Liberty and citizenship in Late Antiquity
The importance of retinue for the emergence of transitional periods and migrations
Origines gentium and the oldest historians of "barbarians"
Hellenistic and medieval Arabic medicine (or another scientific discipline)
Reflexion of ancient historiography in the period of Renaissance Humanism
Defended theses:
The chronicle of Iohannes of Bíclarum. Visigothic kings and Roman emperors in the perception of a late ancient chronicler
(https://is.muni.cz/th/110131/ff_d)
Serious political offences (protection of majesty) in the Principate
(https://is.muni.cz/th/174501/ff_d)
The question of composition in Roman law and barbaric laws
(https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/imyj8/)
The tribal assemblies of the Roman republic illustrated by the legislative proces in the plebeian assembly (concilium plebis)
(https://is.muni.cz/auth/th/kpe29/)