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.
The Byzantine-style murals which adorned the interiors of Lithuanian castles and churches and were "exported" to Poland during King Wladislas II's reign are regarded as reflecting religious debates. This discussion highlights the Orthodox and Catholic interference in the display and iconography of these wall paintings and constructs hypothetical roles for those who commissioned, painted and supervised the content of the interior decoration. From the late fourteenth century, attitudes towards these paintings changed over a hundred years: from passivity towards their content, to religious alterations either by Orthodox masters or by Catholic patrons or supervisors, and ended with the murals being labelled as the style of the Jagiellonian house.
The transformation of legal culture from oral to written, which was taking place at a different pace and with varying intensity throughout Europe starting in the twelfth century, is the subject that has been regularly neglected by the Czech historiography. Similarly, little attention has been paid to the co-existence of legal ritual and its written records in diplomatic documents. Based on the analysis of the case from the late thirteenth century, the aim is to determine the way in which ritual circuicio was represented in charters. The question is: What strategies were chosen by the new written legal culture facing the tenaciously resisting old world of rituals? To be able to address the issue, the nature of the above mentioned sources will be defined along with the reconstruction of the intertextual network which they form.
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.
TGM dedicated this book to the Czech and Slovak soldiers joining the Allied armies in Russia, France, USA, Britain, Italy and other states. These soldiers demonstrated their anti-Austrian feelings and willingness to fight for the freedom and independence of our nation. The book was also dedicated to these who were forced to fight for Austria. The author explained the Czech national programme and his view on the First World War. He assessed its importance for the future of the independent Czech nation and advocated the restoration of an independent Czech and Slovak state which should be an equal partner in the political and social organisation of Europe.
The study deals with the transformation of the importance of the Ortho[d]ox Faith in Russia's History. Especially while concetrating on the role of monasteries.
This study focuses on the issue of Russian conservatism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The author works in a multifaceted way with Alan Sked's work on British conservatism in the early 19th century and points out that the conclusions which Sked outlined for the British setting can also to some extent be applied elsewhere, specifically to the setting of the Russian Empire.
The aim of the article is to discuss about the roots of modern Russian national identity as an expression of the activity of the Russian state and the Russian orthodox church. Goes to show, what role did the crisis moments of the Russian state in an attempt to rally the Russian people around traditional vision of the Russian sobornost', therefore, the unity of the state, the orthodox faith and the Russian people. The work places emphasis on determining the fundamental identification of the manifestations, which state officials tried to save Russia in the time of peril Napoleon and then build an official form of identity of the company, with the support of the orthodox faith, pointing rather to a political religion than the actual doctrinal profile. The culmination of this process was the so-called triad of the minister of education count Sergej Semjonovič Uvarov. Work is of an analytical character with the characters of the case study crossing the boundaries of political history towards a history of broad-based culture and the history of ideas.
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.