Based on archival documents, the article gives information on the origin of ancient sculptures located in the area of the Faculty of arts of the Masaryk university in Brno and coming from Kyme in Asia minor. The author analyses circumstances of the transformation of its plaster replicas from Prague to Brno, where they have been placed in the "Exposition of contemporary culture in the Czechoslovakia" in the year 1928, and the role of professor A. Salač in this process.
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.
The study deals with the question of a possible interaction between the learned tradition, or more precisely Latin and Old Slavonic literature, and the environment of secular elites in the Czech lands in the 11th and 12th century. The essay considers the significance of the Přemyslid dynasty in contemporary obituary records and of reflection of history in diplomatic sources. This is followed by an analysis of surviving manuscripts of the historiographic texts, which proves mutual inter-institutional relations. An analysis of selected accounts of the written sources as well as reasoning about mental background of period works of fine arts is included.
Based on the example of the Apologia by Nicholas of Dresden, a treatise written in July 1415 as a reaction to the prohibition of the lay chalice issued by the Council of Constance, the article discusses certain aspects and difficulties of textual criticism. It presents several so far unstudied manuscript details that may help discover valuable information about the function of the texts and their later reception. It also examines the limits of textual criticism and the problems of constructing a stemma of theological texts with a rich textual tradition. It shortly discusses certain orthographical peculiarities which are traditionally disregarded in critical editions, but which can - upon closer examination - reveal valuable details about the author and the function of the text.
The paper focuses on Liechtenstein architecture of the first half of the seventeenth century. Stylistic features of the chateau in Eisgrub (Lednice), built by Prince Karl I of Liechtenstein, and the chateau in Butschowitz (Bučovice), which Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein had rebuilt in the 1720s, serve as evidence of the spread of theoretical principles from the works of Sebastiano Serlio and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. This stylistic groundwork defined the appearance of the princely summer palace as well as the princely residence, while hinting at possible authorship of both projects, which the paper links with the figure of Giovanni Maria Filippi, a court architect to Emperor Rudolf II.
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.
In 1965 the French left-wing parties joined forces and lent support to their common presidential candidate François Mitterrand. However several left-wing candidates ran for President in the following election in 1969. What were the reasons for suspending the unification process? Was it the occupation of the Czechoslovakia or student riots in 1968? Could that be ideological divergences or personal conflicts between French left-wing forces? The article is based on analysis of press releases, political science research made in the 1960s and observations of the Czechoslovak embassy in Paris.