On 24 May 2006, Thomas Winkelbauer was presented with an honorary doctorate at Masaryk University in Brno. On this occasion a laudation was given, summarizing Winkelbauer's work as a historian of the Early Modern Age, as well as his role in establishing contacts between Czech and Austrian historiography. Winkelbauer's main area of interest is the history of the Habsburg monarchy in the 16th and 17th centuries in the widest geographical and methodological contexts. His research and publication activities cover the political, legal, social, economic, cultural and religious history of the period. Thomas Winkelbauer's academic work recently reached a new level with the publication of an extensive synthesis of the history of the Habsburg monarchy "Österreichische Geschichte 1522–1699. Ständefreiheit und Fürstenmacht", which was published as part of a series of "great" histories of Austria. Winkelbauer's office in the historical university building in Vienna’s Ring has become a natural meeting point for historians from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands.
Profesor Thomas Winkelbauer of the University of Vienna is a respected historian of the Early Modern Age. His bibliography reveals that a large part of his research work focuses on the princely Liechtenstein family, both in his monographs (in particular Gundaker of Liechtenstein and Karl of Liechtenstein), as well as contextually (as part of the history of the aristocracy in the Early Modern Age and the wider context of Austrian history). Thomas Winkelbauer wrote an important monograph on Gundaker of Liechtenstein, to which he later added specialist studies and editorial sources. He uses this Austrian-Moravian to demonstrate how the world of the aristocracy worked in the Early Modern Age. He also examines the themes of religion and conversion as one of the decisive elements directly linked to the political rise of individuals and families in the Early Modern Age. It is also important to remember that for Winkelbauer, the Liechtensteins represent "the aristocracy which knows no bounds". All of these issues are also addressed in Winkelbauer's outstanding synthesis on Austrian history in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The study focuses on the tract Largum sero written by the Benedictine monk Jan of Holešov. Four fifteenth-century manuscripts of this text exist; two are preserved in the Jagiellonian library in Cracow, one in the Library of the National museum in Prague and one in the Herzog August library in Wolfenbüttel. There is also an old print from Olomouc from the mid-eighteenth century. The author of the article describes how the tract reached Czech and foreign scholars, presents available biographical data about Jan of Holešov and analyses the content of the text based on the description of folk customs. Simultaneously, he offers references and quotations of late medieval primary sources of mostly Czech origin, whose authors comment on the ideas further developed by Jan of Holešov. Finally, comparing the manuscript material and the old print, he underlines their more significant differences and briefly evaluates the importance of this medieval source.
This paper deals with the conception of physical fight in postils by Jacob of Mies († 1429). A short tract De bellis included in the second redaction of gospel postil from years 1413 to 1414 is edited in the appendix. Jacob used subjects of this text based on ideas of John Wycliffe in his postils until the twenties of the 15th century.
The emergence of the Slovak state in 1939 constituted a fundamental change which affected all areas of society, including trade unions. The paper aims to answer the question whether the changes that the Slovak trade union movement has affected can be described as its transformation or rather the extinction. By its very nature, the Slovak state was heavily influenced by foreign countries, especially Nazi Germany. At some stage in the development of the regime, however, he sought inspiration even in fascist Italy. Subsequently these patterns embraced in their political and organizational practice. For this reason, the study will also deal with trade union status in Germany and Italy. In the comparative context, the paper will also examine which types of foreign patterns have been taken over in Slovakia, who was their originator, and what were the activities of the trade unions in the Ludak regime?
The administrative work of criminal proceedings is a rich source of information on the life of the population of a given region. Although many regulations were issued as early as the 1850s, they continued to be valid during the First Czechoslovak Republic. Changes in society and the increasing pace of life also forced an acceleration in criminal proceedings. In 1936, so-called block criminal proceedings were introduced by the government. During the Second World War, the form of accounting for criminal activity forced new regulations. An examination of documents of the former District Office of Humpolec revealed various types of documents that were typical for this kind of administrative work. Although the most frequently used term is criminal register, the meaning of it was not always clear.
The main aim of this paper is to deal with the origin of the working migration to the western/industrial Europe in the second half of 20th century. The paper focus especially on the questions of working migration from Turkey as a result of a bilateral treaty, which had been signed between Western Germany and Turkish republic. It also tries to briefly analyse actual problems, which flows from unclosed procees of the intergation of the immigrants to the western – European society.
This paper is focused on image of Turks and Ottoman expansion to the Europe in croatian and serbian sources from the middle of the 14th to the middle of the 17th century. It presents and explains frequent phenomenons connected to Turks, development of the image of Turks through the three centuries and the differences in serbian and croatian enviroments.
In a lecture given at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno as part of the "Days of Liechtenstein History in the Czech Republic" event, former Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the Czech Republic Ferdinand Trauttmannsdorff presented two projects by the Czech-Liechtenstein Commission of Historians. The first concerns the publication of „Fürstenhaus Liechtenstein – Böhmische Länder – Fürstentum Liechtenstein. Ad honorem Thomas Winkelbauer", which was published in the Studia Historica Brunensia journal. Authors from the Czech-Liechtenstein Commission of Historians have published a series of articles dealing with various aspects of the history of the Liechtenstein family and their ties to the Czech Lands, the history of the Principality of Liechtenstein, as well as with some more general topics from European history. The second topic presented was the publication of an English language version of the commission's "Summary Report of the Czech-Liechtenstein Commission of Historians", entitled "Czech-Liechtenstein Relations. Past and Present". The author of the lecture emphasized in particular the passages devoted to the places of Liechtenstein's memory and the construction of various historical stereotypes typical of Czech-Liechtenstein relations over the long run. He also emphasized some of the chances that, in his opinion, an improvement in Czech-Liechtenstein relations and the resolution of issues still considered as unresolved could bring in the future not only to both countries involved, but also to Europe as a whole.