Ve své monografii autor analyzuje zástavní listiny Zikmunda Lucemburského na církevní statky jako nástroj jeho finanční politiky v českém království. Nejdříve představuje dostupné prameny a dosavadní historická literatura na téma zástav církevních statků a jejich sekularizace. Hlavní část knihy tvoří rozbor Zikmundových zástavních listin na církevní statky v chronologickém sledu. Tento rozbor je doplněn sondou do poměrů chotěšovského a zbraslavského kláštera. Důležitou součástí publikace je také katalog s více než 400 zástavními listinami a podobnými akty, které jsou důležité pro pochopení mechanismu zástav na církevní statky, stejně jako edice vybraných listin a pramenů. ,In his monograph the author analyses the deeds of pledge of Sigismund of Luxembourg for the church estates as a tool of his financial policy in the Bohemian Kingdom. At first he introduces the available sources and also the up-to-date historical literature to the topic of the pledging of church estates and secularization. The main part of the book is the analysis of Sigismund´s deeds of pledge for the church estates in a chronological order. The next chapter contains two case studies about the pledging of the estates of Chotěšov and Zbraslav monasteries. The significant part is the catalogue with over 400 deeds of pledge and similar acts that are important for understanding the mechanism of the pledges of the church estates. At the end the edition of selected charters and sources follows.
This contribution deals with establishing of the International Women's Day in selected land or national organisations of social democracy before the First World War. Its primary goal is to answer, whether the introduction of the "new revolutionary holiday" in 1911 led to significant qualitative shifts in the content of women's activities contrary to previous years. Did the new holiday become the most visible manifestation of the "revolutionary struggle" of the female workers' socialist movement? Was the establishing of the International Women's Day reflected in rhythm of socialist women's organisations? Were there any differences in the land organisations of so called autonomist and centralist wing of Czech land social democracy in Moravia, social democracy in Austria, Silesia and Galicia? An integral part of this text is to outline of position of the new feast in relation to other spring memorial days in the socialistic calendar.
In my paper I focused on the anniversary of the Romanian "Great Union" (The Declaration of Alba Iulia, 1. 12. 1918) and of the Hungarian signing of the Trianon Peace Treaty (4. 6. 1920). Although these two anniversaries are closely connected, they play very different roles in the national narratives and in the collective memories of Romanians and Hungarians. No wonder that also the ways and aims of their commemoration are significantly different. First, I tried to explain in short what had happened on those two dates a century ago, then I sum up the history of the two anniversaries along the 20th century, and finally I took a look at their commemoration and instrumentalization in the present, with the occasion of the centenary.
The fragment of the book of St. Barbara brotherhood in St. Nicholas Church dating back to 1504–1523 is deposited in the Brno city archive in the collection of furriers' guild with the signature E 24/11. It contains an introductory record, which characterizes the book and mentions important circumstances in the days of its formation, along with the lists of members and accounting entries. The book is written – with the exception of one Czech formula – in German and Latin. Its comparison with other similar books preserved in Bohemia does not show any significant differences in respect of external and internal features. The cult of St. Barbara appears in guilds more often in the late Middle Ages, however, in a quite heterogeneous mixture of trades, even though the metal-working crafts prevail. Thus, it is not possible to say without any doubt that Barbara was the patron saint of a particular craft at that time. St. Nicholas, now in ruins, existed already in the first third of the 13th century. It was a subsidiary church to St. James parish church; therefore it was not a significant church. Since the guild itself and its cult activities at the altar of St. Barbara in St. Nicholas church are documented significantly earlier than the origin of the book, it is obvious that the book is only a residue of a range of books that were kept by the guild. The study is accompanied by an edition of the preserved fragment.
The paper presents a collection of maps by Johann Isidor Jelínek depicting the Šebetov estate in the 18th century. Johann Isidor Jelínek was an assistant surveyor and an apprentice of the architect František Antonín Grimm. His maps of the Šebetov estate capture in detail various formations in the landscape and are a valuable topographic source for exploring the landscape of the mid-18th century.
The paper focuses on the era after the democratic revolution of 1989, analysing the political agents' expectations about the nature of the future economic system. Describing the case of Czech-American economist Jaroslav Vanek and others, it shows that the contemporary debates included ambitious projects, which aimed at making Czechoslovakia a pioneer of new social orders, usually inspired by the ideas of so-called economic democracy. In conclusion, the paper compares these concepts with the actual development of the East European countries in the following decades, as it has been described in the conteporary researches.