MSRG Committee Member
Tomáš is an archaeologist and economic historian exploring pre-industrial Central European landscape and rural population. His research explores key social, economic, and demographic changes in the later medieval period, including the process of abandonment of rural settlements. Most recently, he published Peasantry in the Cheb City-State in the Late Middle Ages. Socioeconomic Mobility and Migration (2024). He led the large-scale excavation at Spindelbach in the Ore Mountains, the highest-situated deserted medieval village in the Czech Lands. He also seeks to connect archaeology, linguistics and history, in addressing the issue of the rapid and widespread expansion of the Slavic language across large parts of Europe. This is exemplified by the case of the eastern periphery of the Frankish Empire.
His professional career is linked to the Charles University in Prague, where he is Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology. Stressing the interdisciplinarity of medieval archaeology, he is a member of the Executive Committee of Ruralia – the European Association for Medieval and post-medieval rural Archaeology.
Medieval Settlement Research Group 