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The abuse of Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution during the late presidency of Hindenburg has been criticized in many previous studies as one of the key factors of the collapse of the Weimar Republic that led to the es...

Obituary on Daniel Škoviera

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

Book review: David Remnick: Král světa: Vzestup a pád Muhammada Aliho. Praha: XYZ, 2016, 432 s.

David Vopřada. Kněžství v prvních staletích církve I. 1.–3. století [Das Priestertum in den ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche I. 1. bis 3. Jahrhundert]. Praha: Krystal OP 2018, 256 S. ISBN 978-80-7575-033-4

The article analyses a selected text of the travelogue of Czech nobleman and humanist Christopher Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice (1564–1621). Harant’s information on the ancient Roman custom of punishing debtors ...

The aim of the study is to show the consequences for the Hungarian Piarist Order stemming from the ecclesiastical reforms of Joseph II. (r. 1765–1790). Both Maria Theresa (r. 1740–1780) and her son, Joseph II wanted ...

Book review on KADLEC, P. Moravský advokát a politik Fritz Plachky (1836–1928). Mezi slávou a zatracením, rakušanstvím a němectvím. Ostrava: Pavel Mervart – Ostravská univerzita, 2022, 244 s.

Book review on Kdo přinesl na pražskou univerzitu Wyclifovy myšlenky? Martin Dekarli, Wyclif, Páleč a nominalisté na pražské univerzitě v pozdním středověku (Edice Středověk, sv. 7), Nakladatelství Lidové...

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 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...

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...

Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904) is often portrayed in the Czech context as a controversial figure in the development of political-geographical or geopolitical thought. This is probably a consequence of the lack of attenti...

The symposium on overcoming modernity (kindai no chōkoku) that took place in Tokyo in 1942 has been much commented upon, but later critics have tended to over-emphasize the wartime political context and the ideological ...

The paper discusses the role of Czech (Czechoslovakian) intellectuals in the life of Roman Dyboski (1885–1945), professor of English philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Dyboski was one of just a few Po...

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

In 1996, a selection of privileges and charters issued for the town of Pelhřimov by Czech rulers and local nobility in the years 1289–1802 was published. The impetus for the publication was the 400th anniversary of Pe...

This article focuses on the question of pious legacy in the testaments of the members of the Olomouc bourgeoisie. The main research problem of the thesis is the question whether the events of the observed period were ref...

Dealing with a so far unknown part of Czech translation history, the paper uncovers traces of communist ideology in Czech translations of poems written by a Russian and Soviet poet Sergey Jesenin (1895–1925). First, it...

The paper analyses data contained in the questionnaire completed by the Roman Catholic priests of the Litoměřice diocesis in 1973 when bishop Štěpán Trochta was once again its head. This source gives evidence of a s...

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