In historical sources, the perception of landscapes reflects a struggle for existence, power and control of the space, man's creative activity, his thinking, and his ideas. The projection of a picture of the landscape into a wide range of sources documents the changing image of the landscapes with the goal of passing it on to future generations. At the same time, the descriptions of individual lands and regions expanded the contemporary geographical horizon. The presented text concentrates on selected written narrative materials from the European late Middle Ages and early modern period that can be characterized as topographical and historical geographic sources.
History is an endless well of diverse stories and events from which individuals, small groups of the population, minorities, majorities, nations or humanity itself choose what is important to their image of not only historical reality. Queer history often transcends the notion of narrowly understood boundaries of nations, religions, social classes, gender, or other social categories. In this paper I would like to answer the question – what historical events or personalities were most often commemorated by the Czechoslovak queer community in the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) and why? The answer to this main question will be aided by an analysis of the press of the Czechoslovak sexual minority from the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Years after February 1948 was a difficult period for the Czechoslovak Church. Although the ideologically divided church had a partially negative attitude towards the communist regime, another significant part of ordinary believers and priests (including church leadership) saw the communist state as an opportunity to fulfill the idea of Christian socialism. Czechoslovakia was to become a happy home for unbelievers and Christians alike. The paper is focused on the daily life of the religious communities of the Czechoslovak Church in Brno between 1948 and 1960. It seeks answers to the questions of how the vision of the coexistence of the communist state and the Czechoslovak Church was accepted among the believers themselves at the local level and how the relationship of believers to their new home developed during the dynamic 1950s.
The authors use the example of the personality of Tomáš Řehoř Wolny (1793–1871) to describe the development of historical topography in Moravia in the 19th century, following the founding work of František Josef Schwoy (1742–1806). Wolny, who upon his entrance to the Benedictine monastery in Rajhrad near Brno in 1817 adopted the order name Gregor, was also an avid researcher-historian. Although his life and professional destiny has already been examined in earlier Czech and Austrian historiography, his work has unfortunately not yet been comprehensively evaluated, not only in terms of the methodological procedures Wolny used, but also in reflecting on his monumental works dealing with general and ecclesiastical topography in contemporary research. The aim of the presented paper is to at least partially fill in this gap in current knowledge.
This study deals with remembering of former "Leader of the Nation" František Ladislav Rieger in the annual years of his birth and death in 1918, 1938 and 1948. It will be focused on celebrations and commemorative acts, which took place in these years, and on the participation of the political representation, historians and Rieger's family. The main questions are: how Rieger's legacy was interpreted by different political parties and how Rieger's place in the Czech historical memory changed owing to the events happened in the years ending with eight which are traditionally considered as an important milestones of the modern Czech history.
The study deals with the issue of emigration propaganda in the Habsburg Monarchy during 19th century until the outbreak of the First World War in the context of emigration issues. Specifically, it focuses on the analysis profit by selling one-way ticket to overseas, in fact to USA. This service was provided by agents of shipping companies, who often operated at the edge of the law. The Habsburg monarchy, due to liberalism, did not want to change the established system and tolerated emigration from the country. It never prohibited the operation of agents or travel agencies in its territory and left them relatively calm.
In addition to a wide variety of data, mostly of an economic nature, Schallers's Topographie des Königreiches Böhmen also provided information in several fields of auxiliary historical sciences. One of the questions in the questionnaire focused on the shape of the coats of arms of the cities and towns. This study deals with an analysis of two parts of Schaller's Topographie for the Boleslav and Rakovník regions from the perspective of heraldry and attempts to give an answer to the question of how far this work is still useful primarily for research into the historical development of civic heraldry.
This paper focuses on selected historiography concepts of the soviet historian and ethnologist L. N. Gumilev (1912–1992). The main aim is to present Gumilev's revision of the Kulikovo battle (1380). Paper is based on his two articles published in 1980 on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the event. Primary sources are supplemented by Gumilev's correspondence deposited in Prague and St. Petersburg. Paper clarifies alleged Eurasianist aspects of Gumilev's articles and consequences of their ambivalent reception in the intellectual milieu of Russian nationalists.
This contribution deals with the so-called sociotopography of a specific example of the town of Český Brod in the 18th century. Firstly, its methods in relation to historical urban topography are briefly presented. One of the means of researching the history of everyday life and social history is by conducting an analysis of the appurtenances of civic households. This means that this study of the situation in Baroque period Český Brod can also be regarded as a contribution to the general knowledge of the culture and everyday life of royal cities in Bohemia during the Baroque period. The study is based on inheritance inventories, as they are a universal and very well-organized contemporary source related to the topic. The author analysed approximately twenty inheritance inventories from the town of Český Brod. Based on this research, he divided the local civic households into three social groups.
The focus of the paper is on the topic celebrations of anniversaries important for society of The First Czechoslovak Republic. Emphasis is put on the contrast between the celebrations of the Czechoslovak Legion and the sidelining of non-Legionary military activities after the First World War. The article covers the forms of commemorating during the representative festivities and the progressive development of their selection. The Czechoslovak Army posed an integral part of all of significant celebrations of the Czechoslovak nation. The study doesn't see the army exclusively as a stationary part of acts of reverence and commemorations, but also as an organiser of such festivities.