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The aim of the article is to investigate the theory of conceptual metaphor with regard to its possible use in fundamental theology. Instead of focusing on the analysis of concrete metaphors, the article argues that it is...

Comparisons belong to the field of phraseology. They often have their permanent structure and their meaning is or should be easy to understand, because the given adjective or verb refers to the characteristic of an anima...

The article reflects on a recent change in the Catholic Church that women have been admitted to the liturgical ministry of lectors and acolytes by Pope Francis’ Motu proprio ‘Spiritus Domini’. The main research que...

This study investigates temporal development of phonetic drift (i.e., when L1 pronunciation is affected by acquiring an L2 language) in the L1 speech of four Czech university students (two female and two male) who went t...

It is often being promised nowadays that many things will be great again. Unfortunately, politicians’ pledges are almost never turned into reality. Is it the same case with European climate policies? Or will, thanks to...

Book review on Martin Maďar, The Chuch of God and Its Human Face: The Contribution of Joseph A. Komonchak to Ecclesiology, Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2019, 199 stran, ISBN: 9781532657467.

The paper deals with texts related to early modern literature from the personal collection of Alexandr Stich stored in the National Literature Memorial in Prague. The article briefly mentions small prints and photographs...

This text deals with the morganatic marriage of an aristocrat in the first society of Austria-Hungary. It concentrates on the deviational dimension of this marriage so as to show what problems the long-term relationship ...

It has been 100 years since the adoption of the Constitutional Charter of the Czechoslovak Republic. The tradition of this document is alive in the constitutional order of the Czech Republic. However, this tradition cann...

This article presents a previously unknown thesis print which includes a depiction of the Holy Family. This thesis was produced by the Rugendases, a famous Augsburg family of engravers: in particular, we know it had been...

The legal regulation of the liability of civil servants for damage caused by them to the civil service contained in Act No. 234/2014 Sb., on the Civil Service, as amended, directly refers to Act No. 262/2006 Sb., the Lab...

Book review on Pavel Ondřejek. Koncepce práva jako systému. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2020, 261 s.

Book review: Pavlíček, V. – Čechurová, J. – Ledvinka, V. – Hálek, J. Přemysl Šámal kancléř prezidentů. Praha: Nadace „Nadání Josefa, Marie a Zdeňky Hlávkových“, 2019, 80 s.

Book review on Petr Gibas a kol.: Kutilství: Od „udělej si sám“ po DIY. Praha: Sociologický ústav AV ČR, 2020, 127 s.

The essay is dedicated to the Pieta of Všeměřice, important sculpture of high quality from the beginnings of the Late Gothic art in the Czech lands. On the basis of the formal analysis of the works of Master of Týn C...

This article examines the question of the participation of students from Poland and Lithuania in the academic life in Basel from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Because the article is a prosopographic study, ...

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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...

The study is based on the prosopography of 93 professors, who have taught at the Prague Utraquist University in the years 1526–1622. It examines the careers of 63 of them, who have left the university and settled down ...

Given the extent and state of surviving source materials, it is rather difficult to satisfactorily document the involvement of women of Jewish origin in academic education and their subsequent careers in science and prac...