The study deals with the previously neglected aspects of interwar history of the Department of History in Brno, namely unsuccessful attempts at habilitation, financial provision, process of building the library, lectures and seminar activities and Ph.D. graduates and theirs dissertation thesis.
The study deals with the events related to the last wave of the Nazi courtmartial hearings in Brno in the other half of April 1945 that meant a death penalty for 20 Czech inhabitants of the city. The text also contains a brief genesis of the Nazi courts during the protectorate, taking into account the court in Brno, and the analysis of the post-war investigation of April executions and the trials with the representatives of the court-martials who were members of the Nazi security machinery in 1945–1947.
The authors examine the professional carrier and social standing of the council scribe in Brno and diplomat Jiří Hovorka from Vyškov in the pre-1620 period.
This paper focuses on selected rules of interpretation in Příručka práva městského, which were taken from Digest incorporated into this text by Jan from Gelnhausen, an author of this legal monument. These rules represent, together with other sentences, a large corpus of legal maxims, which is called De regulis iuris et de verborum significatione. This title corresponds with the two final titles of 50th book in Digest. Author of this paper focus on the rules of interpretation of specific nouns, which are in modern legal theory called legislative abbreviations. In addition, attention was also given to the interpretation of grammatical features, which can not be interpreted only from a linguistic point of view, but also in connection with their legal aspect. Both of these rules of interpretation have one thing in common – the need to simplify the legal text.
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.
JUC Šebastián Sutor, who worked in Brno between the years 1647 and 1666 as an urban syndic, compiled a unique office order pertaining to the principles of the administration and managing a registry. In this study, the author analyses these principles and, in the context of the research, other official municipal sources of that time and indicates that only documents of an economic and accounting character were exempted from direct supervision of the city council in the 17th century and were administered through the city accounting office (Buchhalterei). The author also states that Sutor's office order, which has not thus far been subjected to any kind of research activity, is unique testimony to, at that time, the very progressive practices of the Brno syndic. These practices were followed in Brno long before they were observed in other cities and foreshadowed 'bureaucratization' of the 18th century in the sense of the orderly management of documents.
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.
Истоки славянской филологии в Нижегородском университете относятся к первым десяти- летиям XX века. Устанавливаются основные вехи развития славянской филологии в ННГУ. Углубление славистической подготовки студентов рассматривается на современном этапе как одна из приоритетных задач развития международной академической мобильности студен- тов, освоение филологами-русистами инославянского языка – как необходимый компонент славистической подготовки. Выявляется ее специфика на филологическом факультете ННГУ. Доминирующее положение среди изучаемых филологами славянских языков занимает чеш- ский язык, в преподавании которого ставятся практические задачи. Активному практическому овладению чешским языком способствуют успешно развивающееся с 2003 года сотрудни- чество с философским факультетом Масарикова университета в Брно и функционирование единственного в России нестоличного Чешского центра образования и культуры (создан в 2005 г.), ставшего базой углубленного обучения студентов чешскому языку и организации ежегодных стажировок чешских студентов-русистов. and The roots of Slavonic philology in University of Nizhny Novgorod refer to the first decades of the XX century. The main landmarks of Slavonic philology development in NNSU were determined. Extension of Slavonic training of students is considered to be one of the priority tasks of development of students’ international academic mobility, mastering of another Slavonic language by the students of philology being the necessary component of Slavonic training. Its specificity at the philological faculty of NNSU is exposed. The dominant position among the Slavonic languages studied by philologists is occupied by the Czech language, its teaching incorporates practical objectives. Active practical mastering of the Czech language is enhanced by collaboration with the faculty of philosophy from Masaryk University, Brno being successfully developed from 2003 and by functioning of the Czech centre of education and culture (established in 2005) which is the only one non-capital centre in Russia and which has become the base of students’ advanced studying of the Czech language and of arranging yearly training courses for Czech students specializing in Russian philology.