This study deals with reforms by Josef II, in particular with the abolition of the monasteries as recorded in contemporary sources supporting the reforms being carried out. The author selects some significant themes treated by the proponents of reform. The main theme is the criterion of human nature. Related themes include: monks’ asceticism, celibacy, monasteries as the quintessence of baroque piety, and mendicant orders., Petr Hasan., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
Italský historik a právník věnoval svou knihu atraktivnímu tématu role katolické církve, respektive Vatikánu při poválečném útěku nacistických zločinců před spravedlností do zemí západní Evropy, na Blízký východ a do Latinské Ameriky. Hutná práce, která obratně zasazuje Vatikán do mezinárodního dění po druhé světové válce, vychází z autorova dlouholetého studia ve vatikánských, evropských a amerických archivech, díky čemuž představuje fundovanou polemiku s přežívajícími ideologickými klišé některých historiků a černobílým viděním novinářů. Autor zcela odmítá vědomý podíl vatikánské hierarchie na pomoci nacistickým činitelům, takže se jeho postoj může zdát až příliš apologetický, konečný soud však podle recenzenta lze vynést až po zveřejnění relevantních dokumentů Tajného vatikánského archivu., The book under review, by an Italian historian and lawyer, is about the attractive topic of the role of the Roman Catholic Church, particularly the Vatican, in helping Nazi war criminals to avoid justice after the Second World War and to escape to countries of Western Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. This dense work, which skilfully places the Vatican into international events after the Second World War, is based on the author´s many years of research in the archives not only of the Vatican, but also of other countries in Europe and America. The result is a well-supported argument against the surviving ideological clichés used by some historians and against the black-and-white way of looking at things used by journalists. The author absolutely rejects the idea that senior members of the Vatican counsciously helped Nazi officials. This might make his approach seem too much like apologetics, but the final judgement, according the the reviewer, can only be made after the relevant records of the Vatican Secret Archives have been made public., [autor recenze] Marek Šmíd., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
The study deals with the fates of monastery of Nepomuk (Pomuk) in exile in the time of Hussite wars. The core is compresed of an analysis of newly found sources, particularly the accounts of the court of the Ebrach Abbey in Nuremburg. Here, the exiles had part of their financial reserves deposited, acquired from the sale and pledge of valuables and books of their cloister. On blank folios of the accounts, there are drafts of letters by the administrator of the court, Hermann of Kottenheim, for the Nepomuk exiles. The mentioned sources deliver a detailed testimony on the as yet unknown place of their residence, the composition, functioning, and financing of the Nepomuk exile monastery. It was also possible to correct the idea that the Nepomuk monks set out for their maternal abbey of Ebrach immediately after the Hussite wars broke out. The core of the monastery resided at the economic court in Weinzierl bei Krems and was finally disbanded only after 1430 when the exiles ran out of finances., Ondřej Vodička., and Obsahuje literaturu a odkazy pod čarou