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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...

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.

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The text examines the works of the representatives of the institutional critique, in particular the works of Hans Haacke, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher and Daniel Buren. It starts with the discussion on the instituti...

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

Book review: Dennis Smith: Civilized Rebels. An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power. London: Routledge, 2018, 216 s.

Book review: HÁJKOVÁ, D. – HORÁK, P. – KESSLER, V. – MICHELA, M. (eds.). Sláva republice! Oficiální svátky a oslavy v meziválečném Československu. Praha: Academia – Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, 2...

Book review: Jakubec, I. – Štemberk, J. Cestovní ruch pod dohledem Třetí říše. Praha: Karolinum, 2018, 309 s.

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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....

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....

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...

Christian apologetics is traceable back to Peter’s call in 1Peter 3:15–16. To all faithful, he requested that they be prepared to respond in a Christian manner when another questioned or challenged the faith. This de...

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...

The content of this article corresponds to its name. The “new” Civil Code was in the Czech Republic published in 2012 and the article brings a summary of the most significant changes the new legal regulation brought ...

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...