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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 ...

There has been an assumption in the scholarly literature about Emperor Hadrian’s meeting with a Parthian king in about 123 CE. This assumption, based on a single passage in a source whose veracity and reliability has r...

Drahomír Jančík – Barbora Štolleová (ed.): Pivo, zbraně i tvarůžky. Podnikatelé meziválečného Československa ve víru konjunktur a krizí. Praha: Maxdorf, 2014, 368 s.

This study deals with the changes within Czech and Slovak hardcore-punk fanzines from the beginning of 90s up to the present time. It’s based on research into youth subculture and also on the interpretation of “indep...

The preoccupation with the processes of globalization, which has become a key concept in the analysis of the sociocultural condition of postmodernity, has led to a decreased interest in the theory of civilization. The id...

Max Weber is an elusive classic, and competing traditions claim his legacy. As in other cases, the interpretation of this classic should take into account formative experiences, historical context and links to older trad...

James Mahoney – Kathleen Thelen (ed.): Explaining Institutional Change. Ambiguity, Agency, and Power. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 236 s.

This paper is concerned with the transformations of the understanding of documentary photography in the historical and social context. Every photograph, as a recording, is by its nature documentary in the original meanin...

Recenze: Michael Mann: The Sources of Social Power. Volume I: A History of Power from Beginning to A. D. 1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986/2007, 15th edition, 549 pp.

This study confronts the conceptualization and development of the economic transformation of the 1990s, with long-term targeted sociological research mapping the mental state of Czech society and the views on this issue....

Recenze: Roman Zaoral (ed.): Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 269 s.

This essay is a study of self-appointed Czars, which is closely related to Russian political and historical traditions. In Russia, unique traditions of government existed, specific due to their use of historical referenc...

This article examined objective and subjective speaking rate and their relation. Read speech of 22 Czech radio newsreaders (13 male and 9 female) constituted the material for the study. The objective rate was measured as...

As an experienced teacher of advanced learners of English I am deeply aware of recurrent problems which these learners experience as regards grammatical accuracy. In this paper, I focus on researching inaccuracies in the...

Attenuating devices are frequently employed in both spoken and written language to weaken the illocutionary force of utterances as well as their directness. In this way, they are associated with expressing linguistic pol...

Stále více a častěji se fotografie objevují v expozicích galerií výtvarného umění, pořádají se autorské výstavy, fotografické festivaly, autoři fotografií spolupracují s významnými deníky a časopi...

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 ...

This study focuses on the manifestations of ethnic identity of the Ruthenian population living in today’s Slovakia. This identity was (and still is) characterised by a relatively low divergence from the separate ethnic...

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Recenze: Eduardo P. Archetti. Masculinities. Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina. New York: Berg, 1999, 212 stran.

The study focuses on the work of the Jesuit historian Maximilianus Wietrowsky Historia S. Joannis Nepomuceni (1729) and its Czech translation Zpráva historická o životě sv. Jana Nepomuckého [Historical report on the...

The present study explores sources which cast light on the usage of Latin in everyday communication within communities of religious orders, observing the particular choice of Latin rather than vernacular languages for ce...

A proper theological perspective on technical media is not possible without a thorough consideration of the role of language in Christianity. Christian theology can gain this perspective in view of the fact that the sphe...

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...