The paper deals with the practice of rulership of the duchesses or queens in Bohemia and Moravia in central Middle Ages, focusing on their influence on issuing (intervention, petition, or as witness) the charters and their roles at the court of dukes of the Přemyslides dynasty. As the wife of a duke, a reigning duchess enjoyed a personal and political closeness to the duke, i.e. she used to follow his ruling practice, but she had, thanks to her dowry or higher status (for instance Eufemia, consort of duke Oto I. of Moravia, or Elisabeth, wife of duke Friedrich I., both princesses of Hungary), financial resources as well as household or in the late twelfth century court-officials that gave her some possibilities to make individual political decisions.
The twelfth–century forgeries for monasteries Kladruby and Opatovice in West– and East Bohemia are fascinating texts. These documents were written at the end of the eleventh century and in twelfth century. They recorded the beginnings of these monasteries in series of the deeds, and not in one single act, but all these deeds were in the second half of the twelfth century reshaped in one single document. As such, they are important sources for the establishment of the bonds between the central power and "periphery".
This study attempts to illustrate the document production of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava in the significant first phase of its rich history in the years 1920 to 1950. In this period, Comenius University in Bratislava underwent a fundamental change - its de jure demise and the subsequent establishment of the Slovak University in Bratislava. Paradoxically, however, this only had a slight effect on the internal organization and it did not fundamentally change documentation practices at the faculty. The article focuses not only on the written production of the faculty, but, in relation to the legislation in force at the time, it clarifies the faculty's activities and the functioning of its governing bodies and their mutual relations and powers. The work is based on information that was drawn mainly from preserved archival materials, which are now stored in the permanent archival custody and administration of the Archives of Comenius University in Bratislava. We also drew on archive documents from the National Archive in Prague.
This paper examines the personal interventions of the empress in the reform process. Maria Theresa intervened in this process in various ways. First of all, she was able to supervise it directly through her signing of official documents, to which she would add instructions for their enactment to the court authorities or to particular countries of her realm. She also tried to make sure that competent individuals were appointed to the administrative apparatus responsible for implementing and supervising the reforms, irrespective of their social estate - though in this she was only partly successful. In addition, she kept her civil servants in check by requiring them to file regular reports. Finally, by calling for fiscal economies she had a hand in controlling public expenditure., Zbyněk Sviták., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
The study is based on an analysis of the communication papers of selected manorial nobility administrations, mainly from the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, using four large Moravian estates Třebíč, Uherský Brod, Veveří and Židlochovice as examples. It is concerned with individual types of documents and the form of communication between the particular levels of instance administration.
In this study, we attempt to classify, describe and name individual types of documents used by the district council in Boskovice in written contact with authorities, organizations and private persons in the years 1870–1928. The structure is based on a combination of rank and formality. We then scrutinize the documents across the entire page, and we focus on papers and personal papers used exclusively by the district governor as the head of the office. We also deal with what are formally the simplest communication documents – indorsements. In a separate chapter we discuss the modernization of communication papers at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The text is supplemented by examples of selected documents in a separate pictorial appendix.
The article deals with formation of new documents for private messengers. In the age of poor post connections were developed which delivered private letters. The administration started to look at delivery of consgments as a source of revenue in the beginning of the 18. century. Private messengers thus harmed lordly post. The administration wanted to limit quantity of messengers by legitimation passports. The paper also describes this document from the diplomatic aspect.
The article deals with the causes of insufficient reflection of written production in the early and late modern period. It identifies the amount of documents and the issue of their division as the main obstacles to research insofar as they are a prerequisite for mastering the written material. Other problems relate to terminology issues (giving the same document different names), diplomatic terminology's over reliance on archival practice and the uneven depth of development in the various areas of early and late modern diplomatics.
The article deals with four charters regarding the monastery of Oslavany under the same date (May 21, 1288). Based on a diplomatical analysis of the texts, the study attempts to map relations among them and to reconstruct the circumstances of the creation of the charters.
This paper focuses on a unique and yet overlooked source which offers an interesting insight into the daily life of a late-medieval Italian castle during a time of war. It is a list of the guards as well as the other defenders of the castle of Collalto (north of Treviso) from 1373, which also contains a set of rules for them. After a short introduction to the history of the Collalto family and a description of the source, the author offers some theories as to what circumstances and motives may have led the lord of the castle, Count Rambaldo IX di Collalto, to drawing up the document in question. Subsequently, the source is used to analyse the social structure of the garrison and the defence system of the castle of Collalto.