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Based on the archive sources, the aim of the paper is to enlighten life story of Old Town burgher Pavel Prčka who was as one of the representants of Czech Estates Uprising sentenced to execution, loss of honor and prope...

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

Recenze: Petruška Šustrová – Josef Mlejnek jr.: Zaostřeno na komunismus. Praha: Euroslavica, 2014, 294 s.

This article explores selected aspects of narrative expression of identification with social entities in Holocaust survivors’ oral history testimonies, including the related conflicts of identities. In its empirical di...

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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 ...

The author deals with the legal regulation of the management of primary microplastics at the EU level. The article is mainly devoted to the comparison of the already existing legal regulation of some EU Member States, wh...

The following paper is the second part of an article dealing with the mining accident that took place in 2000 in the Romanian town of Baia Mare, which has been described as one of the worst environmental disasters since ...

The contribution deals with the use of electronic tools for investigating the transfer of authorial style in literary translation. It first introduces a method of sentence length analysis of source texts and target texts...

Alexandr Stich as well as Vladimír Šmilauer dealt with Czech military terminology, although this was not their main area of research. Both of them linguistically analyzed the work of others, namely Stich of Friedberg-M...

The Bellum Hispaniense is for the most part considered in scholarship only with respect to textual and linguistic problems and in relation to its deficit in literary qualities. Through a close reading, the present paper ...

Recidivism is one of the measures that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the criminal justice system. The article summarizes findings from the most extensive research of this type in the C...

Historic-archaeological, also ethnographic studies and numerous historical sources and scientific data confirm that the city of Ganja has moved at least five times since its foundation. The original city of Ganja is cons...

The study analyzes the manner in which the State Jewish Museum in Prague maintained memory of the Shoah from 1945–1989 through exhibitions, publications and occasional speeches. It reflects upon the fact that the post-...

The authors discuss the fragmented practice of insolvency courts in the issue of advances on insolvency administrators’ remuneration for the review of applications for claims after the adoption of the so-called transpo...

This article focuses on the concepts of pain at different times and in different disciplines. It presents approaches to understanding both within hermeneutics and in the field of ethics. These points are further connecte...

For more than two decades the family business enterprises of the first generation (generation of founders) are more and more dominant in the category of today’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Czech Republic....

This paper deals with exchanges and misunderstandings between the German school of social history (most prominently represented by scholars from the University of Bielefeld (such as Hans-Ulrich Wehler) and Anglo-American...

The dissolution of the USSR and the transition from a planned to a market economy gave rise to significant changes across all areas of people’s daily lives in Kyrgyzstan. These processes have influenced its social inst...

The article contains the results of a research aimed at mapping the social and geographical origin of officials working at the Prague police headquarters in 1851, 1871 and 1891 based on the study of archival sources. The...

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This article deals with some issues of legal regulation of the association of unit owners as a legal entity in the legal system of the Czech Republic. Due to the complexity and extensiveness of the legal regulation of th...

The following text is based on the outcomes of a long-term field research carried out in eastern Slovakia, and it focuses on the character and specifics of religiosity of the Romany settlements inhabitants. One of the ch...

The paper focuses on books illustrated and written by the Czech artist Daisy Mrázková. It covers main inspirations and biographical information related to this segment of her artistic work. The paper is mainly focused ...