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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 ...

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

Nigeria, similar to numerous other nations across the globe, grapples with a multitude of environmental difficulties. The imperative of safeguarding the environment is considered inviolable, and any responsible nation mu...

The submitted article concerns the topic of administrative punishment in the field of Slovak financial market regulations, placing emphasis on punishing the so-called “administrative procedural offences”. The article...

This study deals with problematic features of Czech-Hungarian translation, focusing primarily on issues regarding translations of contemporary Hungarian literature, not only from the aesthetic point of view but from a li...

This text aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990’ evolves into constituion of independent sociological sub-discipline: “sociology of dying and death”. The main intention ...

The first attempt of the GDR to enact a new Civil Code started in September 1952 and failed with the revolution in June 1953. The old laws were thought to disturb the consolidation of socialist legal order and hinder the...

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...

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...

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...

This paper focuses on four health-related topics derived from Greco-Roman literature or archaeology: keeping healthy, Stoicism, healing sanctuaries and identifying new medicines. Based on an analysis of the available inf...

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...

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 ...

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 presents partial results of a study on market-oriented multilingualism and its strategic management in the workplace of a multinational company in the Czech Republic. The study incorporates the language manag...

The sacrament of reconciliation faced a crisis in the past decades. Many Catholics refuse clerical control of their own conscience, experience the sacrament as formal and legal, and cope with the difficulty in thinking a...

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: Jóhann Páll Árnason: The Labyrinth of Modernity. Horizons, Pathways and Mutations. Lanham – Boulder – New York – London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020, 230 pp.

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...

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...

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 ...