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Johann (Jan) Böhm (1895–1952) was a Czech German chemist specialising in x-ray analysis of crystals. After gathering experience at elite institutions in Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau, he was in 1935 appointed the he...

Recenze: Jóhann P. Árnason: Civilizační analýza. Evropa a Asie opět na rozcestí. Praha: Filosofia, 2009, 148 stran.

Book review: Jóhann Páll Árnason: The Labyrinth of Modernity. Horizons, Pathways and Mutations. Lanham – Boulder – New York – London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020, 230 pp.

Book review on Ivana Lorenzová – Tomáš Štanzel, Jan (Johann) Böhm. Chemik(er) & fotograf, Národní technické muzeum a Masarykův ústav a Archiv Akademie věd ČR, Praha 2020, 300 s., ISBN 978-80-7037-274-6 (NTM...

Profesor Jóhann Páll Árnason letos oslavil své sedmdesáté narozeniny, což poskytuje příležitost popřát mu na stránkách časopisu Historická sociologie vše nejlepší a hodně zdraví, mnoho pedagogických...

Book review on Ľubomír Dunaj – Jeremy C. A. Smith – Kurt Cihan Murat Mertel (eds.): Civilization, Modernity, and Critique. Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory. Abingdon – London: Routledge, 2023,...

Latin poets of the early modern period were fond of using prosaic models as themes in their work. The paper examines a unique group of poetic compositions inspired by manuscripts of medieval sermons of professors at the ...

Taking Lovejoy’s history of ideas perspective, the study compares two central texts of Czech political philosophy: Our currently Crisis of T.G. Masaryk (1895) and the essay of the same name by Karel Kosík (1968) and s...

One of the major traits of Baroque art in Bohemia and Moravia is its receptive character. In the cycles thematically taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses artists often accurately followed widespread and popular illustrations....

Book reviews: Adam Tooze: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. London: Allen Lane, 2018, 218 pp. Adam Tooze: Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy. London: Allen Lane, 2021, 368 pp.

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This article discusses the historical background to the medieval Icelandic sagas. It draws on the work of Icelandic historians, especially Gunnar Karlsson, to argue that the key factor was a distinctive political order e...

Book review on Manfred Hildermeier: Die rückständige Grossmacht. Russland und der Westen. München: C.H. Beck, 2022, 272 s. Book review on Martin Schulze Wessel: Der Fluch des Imperiums. Die Ukraine, Polen und der Irrw...

Ancestors, traditions and alternatives

Stefan Breuer: Der charismatische Staat. Ursprünge und Frühformen staatlicher Herrschaft. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2014, 319 pages

The essay takes off from current controversies about Communism, and on the relative weight of its cultural, political and economic components. The discussion then moves, in light of recent historical scholarship, to prob...

Book Review on Wolfgang Schwentker: Geschichte Japans. München: C. H. Beck 2022, 1050 p., ISBN 978-3-406-75159-2

The paper presents the typical course of education, life journeys, and careers of professors of theology and law based on selected Viten (Vitae, biographies) from an early-modern collection of biographies by the Heidelbe...

This article examines whether and how sacramental liturgy and the Christian life-ethic are intrinsically related, a fundamental problematic in theory and practice in the decades since Vatican Council II. The first half o...