The study deals with the parish topography of the Dobruška deanery and its clergy until 1436. The focus is on defining the extent of the deanery, the patronages of churches, papal tithes and the distribution of the patronage right. It also deals with the factors associated with the benefice work of clerics. The study focuses on the following issues: who was chosen for presentations; where the clerics came from; how long they worked at benefices; and why their work ended. It also analyzes the careers and mobility of clerics, and with reference to particular cases explains possible motives for exchanging benefices.
This study focuses on the door-to-door agitation based on the ideology of the communist system. As the everyday practice of propaganda and mass mobilization, the agitators were appearing in the homes of families in Budapest regularly between 1948 and 1953. The documents of agitation uncover how the Hungarian communist party intended to mobilize the society to support the party-state and what was the social perceptions of this attempt. Since the home was considered female territory, the work of the local party organizations also offers insights into the role of women in the agitation campaigns.
The paper deals with two texts by Mařík Rvačka, a participant in the Council of Constance, whose new copies were found in the Vatican Palatine Library and in the Library of St. James Church in the Municipal archive in Brno. The author of these texts, the prior of the Cyriac order and one of the leading critics of the Czech reformation, refers in them to the contemporary bad state of the Church. His words were aimed especially against the expansion of simony. In the second tract, he critically opposes the communion under both kinds by laymen that was widespread in Bohemia in the second decade of the 15th century.
The contribution will focus on the philosophical conception of cultural and national identity of Erazim Kohák and journalistic thinking of the history of Pavel Tigrid in 20th century. In both cases, the aim is to find the concept of national identity. Kohák formulated his concept clearly and peculiarly in the book Hearth and Horizon (2009), Pavel Tigrid somewhat indefinitely in the book Pocket Guide of an Intelligent Woman After Her Destiny (1988). Both authors were political exiles after February 1948. In terms of opposition to the Communist regime, Kohák and Tigrid represent not only prominent figures, but also a sample of diversity, which was characterized by anti-communist exile.
The aim of the article is to analyze the widely spread idea that the late medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania could unite the whole Rus' and pose an alternative to Moscow. It is shown that the Lithuanian rulers didn't lay such claims; the attempts to detect them in their statements made in 1358 and (allegedly) in 1399 are nothing but misinterpretations. It is also shown that Algirdas, Jogaila and Vytautas had no real chances to subjugate the Duchy of Moscow and its allies and vassals, both as the result of their military expeditions (1368–1372, 1406–1408) and due to the matrimonial union (1383/84).
The author deals with economic thinking in the general determination of production and exchange of material and ideal values between people going beyond the common determination of description and reflection of economic activity of manufacturing, trade and services. He ascertains that in the beginnings of the Bohemian Reformation not only understanding of the difference between the church and the society was formed, but also the foundations for the modern right-wing and left-wing thinking emerged. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that Catholic reformists and conservative Hussites maintained the opinions which may be labelled as radically liberal, while the opinions of radical reformers may be termed (proto)socialist.
The study "The Forgery of the Pledge Charter of Sigismund of Luxemburg for Václav Sekáč of Újezdec from 2nd January 1421" deals with the analysis of the forgery mentioned in the title. It contains the description of the common forms of Sigismund's pledge charters for the church estates and the comparison of the forgery with the original charters. It concludes that the forgery has originated after 1450. There is also the edition of the text in the appendix.
The paper is devoted to the application processing procedure for granting wedding permission to the Jewish population after the introduction of the Familiant Law of 1726. The study concentrates on the written material of the administration with the competence for Bohemia. The agenda was in the competence of the Jewish Commission that was established in 1714 in connection with attempts to restrict the Jewish population. The issuance of the Familiant Law was accompanied by a number of measures, which were reflected in the written production not only of the Jewish Commission but of other offices as well. Examples of these documents and those directly related to the processing of applications for wedding permission, from submission to conclusion, document the whole process of implementing the law and the practical course of the approval procedure.
The topic of the article are the exams of qualification to become a pastor of a parish that were established by Joseph II as a part of the reforms of the church administration in his lands. The paper is based on the sources stored in the Diocesan Archive of the Brno bishopric and therefore it focuses primarily on the situation in the diocese of Brno. It studies the form of the exams in the course of the historical development, the process of enforcement of their results during the final appointment of priests to benefices and the way this statutory and time-tested method was harmo¬nized with the Canon Law.