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Nová syntéza o společnosti v českých zemích v dlouhém 19. století

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Hlavačka M.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2021

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vol. 119

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issue 1

135-148

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The new social history of the Czech lands in the 19th century is written on the basis of the concept of history as games, where however an analysis is not lacking of the structural framing of society, rhythm of historical movement, relationship between the continuity and discontinuity of modernisation changes, relationship between historical stability and dynamics and where Czech lands are presented as a unique “laboratory” of these modernisation changes. The author overcame the classical concept of modernisation by drawing into this general concept the value frameworks (especially the values associated with the Enlightenment, liberalism and nationalism), as well as new trends of that time (gender, social issues or the emancipation of the labouring class), which modernization inevitably or inadvertently created, and then especially his imagination.

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Sezónnost sňatečnosti z demografického a národopisného hlediska

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Valášková N.

Národopisný věstník

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2009

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vol. 26_(68)

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issue 1

171-177

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This paper deals with the seasonal character of nuptiality in the Czech lands with an accent on the month of May which shows, especially after the World War II, the lowermost values. It is usually connected with the superstition that the “May wedding implies an early death of one of the partners”. This superstition is known already from the period of the Roman wars, however, it had no continual influence on frequency of the May weddings in the Czech lands. As the demographic studies show, the May minimums started to be clear as late as the second half of the 1920s. The author also follows the superstition as a proverb in some Czech paremiological collections created since the19th century.

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Povodně v českých zemích v 16.–18. století ve světle starých tisků

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Munzar J., Ondráček S., Kysučan L.

Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)

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2015

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vol. 22

23-39

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The catastrophic floods in the Czech lands in July 1997 and August 2002 showed that historical flood memory had been lost. The little used sources to recover it include early printed books. This article brings a selection of everal exceptional flood cases captured by printed documents from the 16th–18th centuries. Extant early printed books and the information that they contain (verified from other sources where possible) suitably complement and extend the potential of historical hydrology and meteorology for the study and documentation of early floods that occurred before the beginning of instrumental observations and measurements.

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Autonomie vysokých škol a jejich financování v českých zemích v letech 1848-1939

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Fasora L., Pečinková A., Miler S.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2020

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vol. 118

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issue 1

68-108

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The text analyses the development of the autonomy of higher education institutions in the Czech lands following the Prussian model with an emphasis on the aspect of the economic dependence on the state, which was very significant in European comparison. It notes the gradual development of autonomous identity in the representation of higher education institutions with a core at the universities and the achievement of a high degree of autonomy in the decision-making of the state in 1890–1930. At that time, higher education institutions became the leading bearers of a liberal vision of corporate management and a liberal-democratic view of the role of the state. Increasing cases of the abuse of the autonomy by the representations of higher education institutions mainly in the economic sphere led to the intensification of oversight and the gradual reduction of autonomy in the search for postliberal social order in Czechoslovak society with the advent of the economic and political crisis after 1929.

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Liberální matka Božena Němcová

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Bahenská M.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2012

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vol. 99

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issue 3

307-318

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The preserved correspondence of Božena Němcová can be used as a source for an analysis of her attitude to her children. The letters enable us to reflect if these attitudes diverged from the conventions of the time, to what degree her personal experiences reflected in her raising of the children and what priorities she envisioned for them. The principles Němcová quoted can be to a certain degree seen as representing a clash of only slowly changing social norms (i.e. the notion of the patriarchal family with father-provider) and the rapidly changing social and economic reality. Němcová herself was forced to submit to the economic situation of her family and through her own income tried to improve its situation. As for the raising of the children, she mostly advocated traditional views. However, we can consider modern her conviction of the importance of first-rate education, without regard to gender. As for the future professions of her children, she viewed this question in a practical way, considering the possibilities for professional fulfilment and salary. There is a marked difference in the approach of Němcová to her sons and to her only daughter, influenced of course by the fact of their greater or shorter distance from home, but also probably by certain traditional and gender-stereotypical thinking. The educational style of Němcová should not be considered liberal, as she most often reminded her children of their duties, moral principles, obedience, respect and responsibility.

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Czech Tramping as a Lifestyle

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Altman K.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2022

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vol. 32

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issue 4

293 - 306

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Czech tramping can seem to be a mere leisure-time activity of a selected segment of the Czech population (especially young people but by far not only of them), but its essence is much more complex and its importance usually bigger. Tramping does not only consist in unrestricted wandering through freely accessible nature (usually at weekends), in camping and development of peculiar festivities, but it also demonstrates its specific material and spiritual attributes, significantly influenced by scouting and woodcraft. It was mainly the tramps´ code of ethics, applied not only to tramping itself, that defined ethical attitudes of the tramps towards the environment and members of the majority society. Over the last one hundred years, Czech tramping has become a real lifestyle of its bearers not only in the period of their youth, but often also later in their life, often until their death. This lifestyle has always been a specific, even in the context of a certain space, non-consumption-oriented, and alternative way how to spend leisure time.

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Poválečná retribuce v českých zemích v historické a právněhistorické literatuře: komentovaná bibliografie

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Král J.

Central European Papers

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2025

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vol. 13

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issue 1

23-43

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The desire for retribution and punishment of those responsible for the significant suffering endured by the inhabitants of the Czech lands during World War II led the Czechoslovak political representatives in exile, both in London and Moscow, to the idea of dealing with these “traitors and collaborators” once and for all, ensuring a swift purification of the nation in the early post-war years. To achieve this goal, specific institutions were established in the form of 24 extraordinary people’s courts, the National Court, and criminal investigation commissions, which were to fulfill this ambitious aim. Research and evaluation of their activities, even after almost 80 years, continue to yield results and open new questions and potential areas for further research. This study aims to summarize the existing historical and, to a limited extent, legal-historical literature dealing with the phenomenon of people’s judiciary, which, even in the third decade of the 21st century, continues to attract considerable attention from both domestic and foreign researchers.

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Šlechtic a revoluce. Pohled Karla Chotka na revoluční rok 1848

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Dvořáková L.

Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

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2015

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vol. 23

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issue 1

1-20

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The submitted study looks at the opinions and acts of the nobility, in particular Karl Chotek, during the 1848 Year of Revolution. Before the spring revolutionary period, the Czech nobility enjoyed an exclusive status, but the revolutionary summer changed all that. Although some noblemen had already endeavoured to reform relations with their serfs before the revolution, had founded the Union to Encourage Industry in Bohemia and declared the ability to purchase freedom for serfs, during the revolution they signed a petition to avoid sudden revolutionary change and keep their current status as political representatives of the country, and they were confronted with the Herder-inspired Czech nationalist movement. They could not find a common voice with this movement because amongst other things, their reforms arose not from the language-profiled concept of the nation as declared by the Czech nationalist movement, but rather from the Enlightenment. Although the nobility were not passive and endeavoured to play a part in political events, they remained alone in their endeavours, with even the state itself drawing away from them and abolishing serfdom on 7 September 1848 independently of their demands, and through this also abolishing the whole of the previous patrimonial administration.

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Programové strategie politického boje o moravský venkov v éře masové komunikace:

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Cibulka P., Miller S.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2020

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vol. 118

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issue 2

324-362

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The submitted study deals with an analysis of the programme texts of the political parties oriented mainly on the Moravian and Bohemian rural areas in the period from the end of the 19th century to World War I. Its goal is to examine social and national collective self-identification in the Czech lands in this period. A comparison of the political programs of the Old Czechs, the Young Czechs, the Agrarians and the Clericals is intended to help determine how the relevant political parties have been able to influence the political attitudes of the peasantry. The text also deals with the development of agricultural associations and cooperatives in the Czech lands and their connection to the political structures of individual parties.

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Kontinuita farní správy jako problém náboženských dějin Čech a Moravy v předbělohorské době

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Hrdlička J., Miller S.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2023

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vol. 121

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issue 3

737-780

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One of the manifestations of multi-denominational coexistence in the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Margraviate of Moravia between the Hussite Revolution and the year 1620 was the competition of individual confessions (apart from the Unity of Brethren) for the existing network of parishes as the fundamental unit of church administration. The study seeks an answer to the question of how the landed gentry tried to guarantee that the parishes on their estates, over which they held the right of patronage, would belong to their faith in the future, as was currently the case. It is mainly concentrated on localities owned by the nobility, who were the owners of the right of presentation (a patron’s right to propose a suitable person for a benefice to the ecclesiastical superiors) to approximately three-quarters of all parish churches.

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Interdisciplinární relace: Causa incolát

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Tomandl M.

Národopisný věstník

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2009

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vol. 26_(68)

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issue 1

178-196

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This paper attempts to present and to access some selected legal standards affecting the shape of the local administration institutions on the Czech soil (Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia) in the years 1848-1945. In the retrospection, some attention was paid to the turning points in the development of the basic unit of the territorial self government, i.e. the local administration. The author attempts to present a vivid picture of the situation by interpreting some legal standards of the local community system.The research focused on the local communities shows that the thesis supporting the existence of relations between the cultural activity of individuals and local communities and contemporary legal standard is justified. Those standards contribute - directly or indirectly, to the shaping of the mentality of the inhabitants concerning their belonging to a particular socio-geographic environment.

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České královny a královská Věnná města v pohusitské době (1436-1526):

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Beran Z.

Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica

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2019

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vol. 22

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issue 2

119-150

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The goal of this study is to capture and describe the specific characteristics of royal dowry towns in the post-Hussite period (1436–1526). As this is an institution that lasted from the High Middle Ages until the mid-19th century, caution is required to avoid transferring characteristics and evaluations from other periods. The approach used respects the state of institutionalization at the time, which in the Middle Ages often took a personal nature or was not continuous. The study asks the following questions: What made Czech royal dowry towns unique? What made them different from other royal towns? What importance did this group of towns have in the historical context of the time? What tied the dowry towns to the queens and the offices of their chamberlains? What effect did the frequent use of these towns as collateral have on them? The sources used most often are municipal rights, correspondence between dowry towns and manorial or regional officials, correspondence between towns, correspondence with the surrounding nobles, legal proceedings, normative sources, and chronicles.

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Ovruch slate spindle whorls in the Czech Lands

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Kouřil P., Přichystal A.

Przegląd Archeologiczny

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2022

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vol. 70

151-174

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The article discusses the state of knowledge and the significance of a special group of early medieval material culture artefacts – namely, spindle whorls made of Ovruch pyrophyllite slate originating from the territory of present-day Ukraine. Thousands of these artefacts, interesting not only for their specific, usually reddish color, but also for their professional standardized design, were made between the 10th and 13th c. Their occurrence in the Czech lands is very limited, however: only 13 specimens are presently known. In Bohemia, they have been discovered only in Prague, which was their target destination. In Moravia and Czech Silesia, they are known from five sites: with a single exception (a cemetery), they are important supra-regional and local fortified centers. Non-destructive analyses carried out have shown that all detected spindle whorls can be considered originals. An analysis of the archaeological contexts showed that the earliest occurrence of these imports can be dated as far back as the second half of the 10th century. However, most of them probably belong to the 11th century, and some, exceptionally, even to the 12th century. Given their low number, we assume that this most probably was not a regular item in long-distance trade.

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Liturgické rukopisy z českých cisterciáckých klášterů vzniklé do konce 15. století

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Valíková M.

Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica

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2022

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vol. 25

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issue 2

95-108

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The medieval Cistercian monasteries were distinctive centres where many unique and very valuable manuscripts were created over the centuries. Based on the available literature, this article presents for the first time a comprehensive inventory of the surviving medieval liturgical manuscripts from Czech and Moravian Cistercian monasteries, including their basic characteristics and current location. The manuscripts of the Golden Crown Monastery, the second largest collection of manuscripts, were the subject of more detailed source research. The main aim was to shed light on the local cults, specific celebrations of anniversaries and other particular elements of monastic life that distinguished the Golden Crown Monastery from other monasteries.

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Triad of Resistance, Defeat, and Reconciliation: The production of historical meaning in the performances of Czech military reenactment through the example of Estonian SS units

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Wohlmuth P.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2023

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vol. 33

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issue 5

3 - 18

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This study explores several military reenactor performances through the optics of reenactment studies after the affective turn and post-positivist oral history. These are co-organized or independently produced by a Czech military history reenactment club, which is specific for its unique affectivity, experience, and production of historical meaning. In action and film reenactment performances, which we refer to as The West, The March, and Division 45, the reenactors focus on the reconstruction of the final phase of the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) combat journey in the Czech lands in May 1945. In doing so, they produce meanings that conflict with contemporary Czech military culture and official memory, but they avoid historical revisionism. In this sense, the reenactor performances touch upon, among other things, the still highly conflicting local issues of the politics of memory – the so-called crimes of the victors of the summer of 1945, especially the crimes committed against prisoners of war of various types of the German armed forces, subjected to highly inhumane treatment. Until now, these crimes have been debated in the Czech historical community more or less only in relation to German civilians.

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National Indifference Concept and Contemporary WWII Military Reenactment in Czech Lands: A Comparative View of the Groups Reenacting Hultschin and Estonian SS Conscripts

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Wohlmuth P.

Acta Poloniae Historica

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2024

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vol. 129

223-250

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For the first time in the Czech Republic, a research project on contemporary military re-enactment has been carried out based on oral history. The research team managed to record memory narratives of, among others, three military reenactment associations, two of which still engage in a controversial reenactment of Wehrmacht Heer units (coming from the Hultschin/Hlučín/Hulczyn region). At the same time, the third reenacts Estonian SS units. In the spirit of post-positivist oral history, the collected narratives have been analysed primarily to reveal the cultural content, forms, and processes that shape the historical subjectivity of the narrators, that is, the way they understand themselves in history. One key cultural form the narrators use is the so-called ‘national indifference’. The reenactors refuse to identify themselves ethno-culturally (and ideologically) with German or Czech/Czechoslovak warring sides. These cultural forms are further augmented with the concept of an ‘ordinary soldier’, which is well-known in reenactment studies. As a result, reenactors self-interpret themselves as subjects who reenact Axis German armies, but consciously, within liminal contexts, whilst rejecting Nazi ideology, which makes them significantly more acceptable in Czech military reenactment milieus. In this respect, the study provides a comparative view of the Hultschin and Czech Estonian SS reenactors within the context of reenactor associations.

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"De sublimacione principum seu rectorum." : Paměť o počátcích panovnického rodu Přemyslovců v proměnách věků

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Antonín R.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2014

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vol. 101

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issue 3

335-358

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Author of the study presents, on the basis of the analysis of the modifications of the story on the origins of the Přemyslid dynasty in medieval narrative sources (Legend of Kristián, Chronicle of Kosmas, Old Czech Chronicle of the so called Dalimil, ...) as well as their comparison.

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Hospodářské dvory SS ve výcvikovém prostoru Böhmen

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Zouzal T.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2021

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vol. 119

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issue 4

775-811

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The study deals with the agricultural farms of the SS organisation located in the SS-military training areas Beneschau/Böhmen in 1942–1945. There were several dozens such farms in the territory of the training ground, so-called SS-Höfe, and they employed most of that part of the original population, which had remained in the region after the confiscation of the area. The text describes the genesis, activities, issues of administration, staffing and profitability of the SS-farms. The study’s conclusion discusses the liquidation of the yards after the end of World War II.

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Das Pasticcio in den böhmischen Ländern in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts

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Spáčilová J.

Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)

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2019

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vol. 22

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issue 2

123-136

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The study deals with the pasticcio, a significant sub-genre of the Italian opera seria in the 18th century. It discusses the structural principles of the baroque opera as prerequisites for the creation of the pasticcio and explains its defining framework. The countries of the Czech Crown with their different institutional conditions (municipal versus private aristocratic theatres) were chosen as an example of the spread of pasticcios at the time. On the basis of the librettos and scores obtained, different forms of pasticcio can be differentiated in the studied area, including extensions to the oratorio and religious theatre.

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Die Studie befasst sich mit dem Pasticcio, einer bedeutenden Untergattung der italienischen Opera seria im 18. Jahrhundert. Sie erörtert die strukturellen Prinzipien der Barockoper als Voraussetzungen für die Entstehung des Pasticcios und erläutert dessen definitorischen Rahmen. Als Beispiel für die damalige Verbreitung des Pasticcios wurden die Länder der böhmischen Krone mit ihren unterschiedlichen institutionellen Bedingungen (städtisches versus privates aristokratisches Theater) gewählt. Auf Basis der erhaltenen Libretti und Partituren lassen sich im Untersuchungsgebiet verschiedene Pasticcio-Formen differenzieren, Erweiterungen hin zum Oratorium und Ordenstheater eingeschlossen.

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Family businesses and their roots in Central European society in the 19th century

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Hlavačka M.

Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)

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2016

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vol. 24

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issue 2

1-24

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This study is the first attempt in Czech historiography at outlining certain methodical and methodological bases for research into the history of family businesses. It focuses on illuminating certain methodological options for defining family companies and their typology according to internal distribution of power and mutual (not just family) relations within the businesses. It expands this typology with a proposal for an external materially chronological framework for enterprise within Central Europe over the last hundred and fifty years. The linked appendix endeavours to apply this typology to four family businesses which operated within the Czech lands and Czechoslovakia. Specifically, it looks at four major ‘family’ businesses in the Czech lands whose operations encompassed the whole of the Habsburg Empire’s territory: ‘Lederer’ – producers of branded molasses-based alcohol; ‘Lanna’ – road, railway and water transport planning and construction; ‘Klein’ – road and railway planning and construction; and ‘Ringhoffer’ – railway vehicles (carriages for personal and freight transport).

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Nová syntéza o společnosti v českých zemích v dlouhém 19. století

Sezónnost sňatečnosti z demografického a národopisného hlediska

Povodně v českých zemích v 16.–18. století ve světle starých tisků

Autonomie vysokých škol a jejich financování v českých zemích v letech 1848-1939

Liberální matka Božena Němcová

Czech Tramping as a Lifestyle

Poválečná retribuce v českých zemích v historické a právněhistorické literatuře: komentovaná bibliografie

Šlechtic a revoluce. Pohled Karla Chotka na revoluční rok 1848

Programové strategie politického boje o moravský venkov v éře masové komunikace:

Kontinuita farní správy jako problém náboženských dějin Čech a Moravy v předbělohorské době

Interdisciplinární relace: Causa incolát

České královny a královská Věnná města v pohusitské době (1436-1526):

Ovruch slate spindle whorls in the Czech Lands

Liturgické rukopisy z českých cisterciáckých klášterů vzniklé do konce 15. století

Triad of Resistance, Defeat, and Reconciliation: The production of historical meaning in the performances of Czech military reenactment through the example of Estonian SS units

National Indifference Concept and Contemporary WWII Military Reenactment in Czech Lands: A Comparative View of the Groups Reenacting Hultschin and Estonian SS Conscripts

"De sublimacione principum seu rectorum." : Paměť o počátcích panovnického rodu Přemyslovců v proměnách věků

Hospodářské dvory SS ve výcvikovém prostoru Böhmen

Das Pasticcio in den böhmischen Ländern in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts

Family businesses and their roots in Central European society in the 19th century