2016: Mgr. title in the Study of religions. Thesis title: Antirituál: Procesy s templáři a pozdně středověké představy o antinomické herezi (Anti-ritual: The Trial of the Templars and the Late Medieval Ideas about Antinomian Heresy). Department: Department for the Study od Religions. Supervisor: doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
2013: bc. title in the Study of religions. Thesis title: Utváření obrazu kacířské iniciace templářů: Studie o vybraném prameni z jara 1310 (Construction of the Imagery of the Heretic Templar Initiation: Study on a Selected Source from Spring 1310). Department: Department for the Study of Religions. Supervisor: doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
Teaching Activities
2017- present: Course Devil Worship in the Medieval Imagery About Heresy.
Autumn 2016- present: Assistant in the course Křesťanství I. (Christianity I.).
Scientific and Research Activities
European Middle Ages in the West, Medieval heresy and inquisition, Imagery about the devil worship in the Late Middle Ages, Popular and learned culture of the Middle Ages.
2011-present: Religious Rationalities as a Factor of Cultural Change in European History (supervisor: doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.).
2017: Analysing Manuscript Networks in Manuscriptorium.com (project supervisor: doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.).
NOVOTNÝ, František. Accepting the Evil Spirit: How the Use of Multiple Cultural Resources made the Witchcraft Stories Plausible in Hans Fründ's Report on the Witches in Valais, 1428. In International Medieval Congress Leeds 2017. 2017. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Wolves, Poisons, Cloven Hoof: Cultural Exchanges and the Origins of the Witches' Sabbath Imaginations. In Evil/Le Mal: 14th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society (IMS-Paris), Paris, 29th June -1st July. 2017. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Druhý ročník Olomoucké religionistické konference. In Religio: Revue pro religionistiku. 2017. s. 209-211. ISSN 1210-3640. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, and François V. Pageau, eds., trans. The Arras Witch Treatises. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. Correspondences: Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism. 2017, roč. 5, s. 113-116. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Luciferian Piety: Representations of Ascetism in "Cathar Lepzet". In Relocating religion: Annual conference of the EASR, Special conference of the IAHR, Helsinki. 2016. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Unholy Feast and Unholy Fast: Ascetism in the Representations of Alleged Anomic Sects of the 13th Century. In Leeds International Medieval Congress 2016. 2016. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. XXI. světový kongres IAHR "Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present". In Religio: Revue pro religionistiku. 2016. s. 97-99. ISSN 1210-3640. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. The Devil Became Flesh: Trial of the Templars and the Thematisation of physical Devil-Worship in the Inquisitional Investigations. In XXI. World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. 2015. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Když hrabě jezdil na rakovi. Uctívač ďábla jako téma perzekuce a propagandy; studie k pramenům z let 1231-1233. Sacra. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, roč. 12, 1-2, s. 7-21. ISSN 1214-5351. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Bestie a zrádci: Francouzská královská propaganda o templářích, fámy a jejich vztahy, 1307-1312. Sacra. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, roč. 13, č. 1, s. 24-37. ISSN 1214-5351. Digitální knihovna FF MUinfo
BRICHOVÁ, Lenka, František NOVOTNÝ, Olga ČEJKOVÁ a Vojtěch KAŠE. Why Maternal Matters among Gods? Four Case Studies from Western Religious Traditions. In Religions: fields of research, method and perspectives, 27-29 October. 2014. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Ďáblovy agentky: Případová studie dílčího motivu v obrazu templářského antirituálu. In Zdenko Vozár. Mezinárodní religionistická studetntská vědecká konference Kutná Hora 2012: Sborník prací. Praha: Karolinum, 2013. s. 34-52, 18 s. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Stát se inkvizicí: Vyšetřování hereze jako tvorba identit: Studie o procesu s templáři. Sacra. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, roč. 11/2, s. 21-32. ISSN 1214-5351. info
NOVOTNÝ, František. Frankfurter, David (2006). Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Ritual Abuse in History. Sacra. 2013, roč. 11, č. 1, s. 49-52. ISSN 1214-5351. info