Spreading of school chronicles in the second half of the 19th century allows collection of information from larger geographic areas.Despite being significantly different in terms of length and nature of records, individual chronicles represent a valuable source of information for researchers. Authors of the chronicles were teachers, through whom we find out more about the lives of school children, troubles of teachers in the 19th century or about disputes accompanying attempts to build own schools in municipalities, but also about municipalities themselves, national and international events and natural disasters.The paper focused on festivities in a social group of the municipality from the perspective of school chronicles as a unique and not quite yet explored source. Thanks to these records, it is possible to rebuild the course of official visits of high state and church representatives, sanctification of buildings or celebrations of Christmas trees, but mainly the position of the school and its involvement in social life. Thanks to the chronological recording, the development of the festive life in the municipality can be observed, and despite the fact that it is primarily a source from the school environment, information recorded in it is of indisputable importance for the creation of a complex view of the culture and life in a municipality in the 19th century.
The Franciscan Library at St. Mary of the Snow in Prague holds a manuscript of a Kadaň Town Chronicle not quoted by special literature till now. The manuscript dates from the end of the 16th century and describes the history of the town from its origin in the year 829 – this part was overtaken from the Chronicle by Václav Hájek of Libočany – untill the days of its author, till the year 1599.
The Franciscan Library at St. Mary of the Snow in Prague holds a manuscript of a Kadaň Town Chronicle not quoted by special literature till now. The manuscript dates from the end of the 16th century and describes the history of the town from its origin in the year 829 – this part was overtaken from the Chronicle by Václav Hájek of Libočany – untill the days of its author, till the year 1599.
The Franciscan Library at St. Mary of the Snow in Prague holds a manuscript of a Kadaň Town Chronicle not quoted by special literature till now. The manuscript dates from the end of the 16th century and describes the history of the town from its origin in the year 829 – this part was overtaken from the Chronicle by Václav Hájek of Libočany – untill the days of its author, till the year 1599.
The Memorial Book of the central Bohemia town of Velvary started in 1576, ranks among noteworthy early modern age memorial books. A number of municipal scribes took part in its production. Besides official records it contains a number of chronicle entries that portray the town´s life until the last quarter of the 18th century. It comprises the oldest depiction of the Velvary town coat of arms dating from 1807.
The study examines chronicles from the second half of the 18th century written by the České Budějovice master baker Lukas Bernard Schneider. In addition to the Schneider Chronicle recounting the history of the town between 1253 and 1768, attention is paid to its copies. The external dnd internal attributes of the manuscripts have been analysed and the filiation and comparison of Schneider´s Chronicles with other chronicles produced by České Budějovice burghers during the early modern age have been carried out.
Javorník, in the Horňácko region, is one of two villages where people still use old hymnbooks and where human piety is not a matter of mere formality. Hymnbooks, postils, bibles, catechisms and many other books that were handed down through generations can be found in numerous families. ‘Religious educational literature’, as we can call this specific type of literary production, played a very important role in the lives of ordinary people. Although they were persecuted for it, this literature had in return served and supported them in difficult times of religious, social and war oppression. this explains why people fervently shared the chronicles of their life stories inside these books. Now they bear testimony of those times.
This study deals with the historiography of the mining town Jáchymov. In the 16th century a few historiographic works originated, the most attractive of which being the chronicle by Johan Mathesius, a pastor in Jáchymov, and his folllowers. The works by Johan Seltenreich and David Hüter, local scribes, are less known. The writings are housed in the Jáchymov Municipal Archive and in the National Museum Archive in Prague.