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Smrt konvertity. Zprávy o dobré a špatné smrti v konfesním kontextu

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Prchal Pavlíčková R.

Historie – Otázky – Problémy (History, Issues, Problems)

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2019

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vol. 11

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63-80

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The study analyses reports on the death of converts in the context of the period ideal of good dying. From the mid-16th century printed reports on the death of converts, which were conceived as public printed evidence that a member of a given denomination died a good death, confirmed his or her conversion and thus the authenticity and correctness of the given oracle. Doubts about the nature of the death of the converts appeared in the sources of a personal nature, too — in the Czech milieu they are found in some memes and journals from the period just after the battle of the White Mountain. Their analysis is aimed at revealing the attitudes of writers, often exiles, to the conversion and knowledge of ideas and values associated with the change of a denomination.

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Vlkodlakův rov. Rozprava kulturněhistoricko-etnologicko-archeologická

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Historie – Otázky – Problémy (History, Issues, Problems)

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2019

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vol. 11

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issue 1

135-145

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At the forefront of the author’s reasoning is the occurrence of two phenomena: The burial of a revenant as material culture of an existing grave and as a performative phenomenon within the framework of legends and myths. But, at the heart of the debate is the grave of an alleged werewolf, a remarkable monument, which, by a happy coincidence, was found in the somewhat specific region of today’s Latvia. Since there was no archaeological survey, we do not know whether the so-called antivampire interventions were applied to the deceased. The external form, that is a pile of stones which will prevent the vampire from coming out, recall the tomb of a vampire, at least according to the measures known from the legends of the 18th–20th century, but it attaches to it a longer-term werewolf tradition. Some of the positive connotations associated in the region of Latvia with werewolves could explain the grave in Mazirbe as a monument that has been preserved in the present times. Here, too, there is a remarkable ambivalence. Seen through the prism of the ancient legends, a werewolf is a dangerous creature; however, in the case of Mazirbe, it was a person considered universally to be popular and respected. Since the pastor’s tomb is also located within the space of the sanctified burial site of the cemetery, the potentially unclean deceased is excluded from the community of upright people, Christians, which contrasts sharply with the case of Peter Stumpp, whose person was dishonoured and his physical substance was destroyed.

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Čechami obchází strašidlo byrokrata. Posmrtné obrazy úředníků

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Chalupová H., Reischlová D.

Folia historica Bohemica

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2019

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vol. 34

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issue 1

137-166

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The topic of this paper are folklore sources, namely demonological legends in which a revenant is embodied by a real historical personality - an official of the nobility. The study contains comprehensive biograms of officials whose personalities left a significant impression within the oral tradition. A comparison of the historical facts with the content of the plots of individual legends offers several hypotheses that can serve as an answer to the question of why have these personalities of officials of the nobility become the actors of the demonological legends.

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Smrt konvertity. Zprávy o dobré a špatné smrti v konfesním kontextu

Vlkodlakův rov. Rozprava kulturněhistoricko-etnologicko-archeologická

Čechami obchází strašidlo byrokrata. Posmrtné obrazy úředníků