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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...

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 ...

Thelma Fenster – Daniel Lord Smail: Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003, 227 str.

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The article analyzed the first part of the work of Nicolas Losskij Mystical’s intuition in the context of current research in the spiritual theology. Negation is – according to Losskij – the first natural step for ...

The article describes the role of the Chicago School of Sociology in the development of empirical social research. It traces the increase in the significance of the education of doctoral students on American universities...

Often, liberation theology’s preferential option for the poor is pushed aside within theological discourses as being too specific, too focused on social problems, to function as a viable theology for the Church as a wh...

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...

The article presents the current state of knowledge regarding the use of analogy in domestic jurisprudence, with the aim of outlining its place and role in the process of finding the law. The performed analysis makes it ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This article argues that attempts by philosophy to think emotions as embodied is caught between the necessity of thinking them as a subjective first person dimension of experience on the one hand and as an objective biol...

In the study, the author focuses on the various assassinations that are connected with the Czechoslovak history. The term „assassination“ has no legal definition, so in the beginning of the study we will first think ...

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 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.

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 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...

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the leading international organization in the field of nuclear energy and nuclear non-proliferation. This paper examines the most important policy body of the Agency, the Boar...

Premysliden ruled over the Czech countries (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) more than three hundred years (ca. 930–1306). They cooperated with the ruling houses of the neighbouring states (Hungary, Poland, Saxony, Bavar...