The present article focuses on specific source for the history of religiosity and popular religiosity, namely, the epigraphic relics. In the introduction is mentioned the conceptual ambiguity of the term „religiosity“ in theoretical studies and the fact that some researchers prefer to study concrete aspects of religiosity than to establish theoretical conceptions. For this material study was selected the same, inductive approach. In the first place the religious situation in the eighteenth century in the selected region (Teplicko) is delineated, as well as the changes in the subsequent century. The region was inhabited mostly by Bohemian Germans, Follows the typology of inscriptions according to Kloos, on which the article is based. The rest of the text is dedicated to the possibilities of use of inscriptions in the study of religiosity and popular religiosity in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. In this connection it aims to formulate and partly also to answer such questions as what were the images of the afterlife and the resurrection of the body, what was the relationship of iconographic and epigraphic decoration, how did the religious ideas change reflect in the inscriptions of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Two supplements attached to the article explain, among others, the occurrence and frequency of the cults of the saints in the studied area.
The North Bohemia Region, especially Teplice, was along with Prague one of the key centres of the opposition community, which later acquired the term ‘underground’. The underground movement soon came into conflict with the normalisation regime. Using the example of one specific city and its community, we have aimed to demonstrate its multifaceted nature. We have begun in 1965, when the underground was spawned, with 1985 being a year of its resurgence following harsh persecution at the beginning of the 1980s. For clarity, we have had to give a brief description of events already well-known and studied in our paper. It also proved impossible to describe the regional issue without anchoring it within its society-wide context, as well as the status of the authorities on the one hand, and the underground on the other. As yet unpublished archive sources, mainly of State Security provenance, were used in the writing of the study.
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