Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 11-22
At the turn of the 1560s and 70s a polemic between Jakub Niemojewski, a devotee of the Unity of the Brethren, and a canon Benedikt Herbest began to arise in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. These authors newly retrieve a story of Hus' life and death in their writings. Both of them use it to reveal weaknesses of the opponent above all. Herbest shows the newness of the Brethren learning through it, its roots in the recent past. And what is more, he strongly emphasises a negative side of these origins. Niemojewski turns it into the proof of the Roman Catholic hood, the unwillingness to discuss. Devotees of the pope are placed into the position of blind...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 23-36
Mikuláš Ištvánfi was an outstanding personality in Hungary in the second half of the 16th century and first decades of the 17th century. He held several important functions during his life; one of the most significant could be the post of the vice-palatine because of which he actively participated few important missions. In his declining years, he decided to write a chronicle of Hungarian history, in which he described events in 1490-1606 and drew upon the pieces of work of his predecessors or his own experience and pieces of knowledge. Considering his position, it may be supposed that depicted events are authentic to a certain extent and quite reliable....
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 37-61
This study deals with the image of Catholics, papists in early modern English drama between 1580 and 1640. The main emphasis is put on Spanish and French on the Elizabethan and early Stuart stage. Although the construction of French and Spanish characters could be motivated by various reasons, in the background there were usually the religious causes because when the English Protestantism was put at risk, the whole community felt unsafe. This article examines all the roles and functions that French and Spanish could have on the stage. In Elizabethan drama they were introduced as the bad ones, which went hand in hand with the anti-alien xenophobia and...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 63-83
Crisis situations generally are very good cases to study urban organism. One of such situations among others could be a war conflict. We will look at urban society of Moravian city Olomouc during long-term Swedish occupation (1642-1650). Following archive files we will observe two ways of communications. First one - how the city council representing whole city community negotiated with Swedish military authorities (above all with commanding officer). Second one - how the city council comunicated dealt with Olomouc community itself. The main question ist, how far the city face to face enemy occupation forces figured as one. Or if some signs of disunity...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 85-99
This contribution shows a marriage in the tangle of law, state's interests and the Catholic Church. The presented attitude of the society towards a marriage has been outlined on the basis of legislative amendments of the Czechoslovak state in the area of the marriage law. The development of the marriage law is analysed with respect to the period the first Czechoslovak Republic, resp. "the marriage amendment". The study reveals bills, the course, difficulties and imperfections, which arouse with its application and realization as well as with the effort to eliminate newly-emerged problems. The previous adjustments and changes in the area of the marriage...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 101-119
The history of the German House in Olomouc has not been presented in a separate study yet. That is why the following study deals with the birth of the idea to build the German House in Olomouc in the second half of the 19th century, its realization in 1933 and its meaning for German speaking people in Olomouc primarily in the twenties of the last century.The first part of this article focuses on the birth of the idea to build the German House and the attempts to realize it before the eruption of the First World War. The second part concentrates on the effort of German culturally involved groups of German society in Olomouc to turn the project of...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 121-139
Reports from meetings of the third category, stored in funds of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Masaryk Institute and the Archive of the ASCR, belong among the most fundamental sources for understanding of its activities. The aim of this article is its analysis in a given period 1918-1952 and characteristics of classical philologists' work, especially in permanent executive committees organising research projects of the category. Since the birth of the Academy in 1890, the Committee for Publishing of Bibliotheca of Greek and Roman Classics has been in operation, in 1943 the name was transformed into the Committee for Publishing of Greek...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 141-153
The article deals with the most frequent disciplinary problems of Czechoslovak gendarmerie officers and the ways of their solution. The research focuses on the period of twenties when it is possible to frequently meet the cases of officers' unbecoming behaviour, primarily in the relationship towards subordinates. The political and national thoughts of concrete individuals as well as their behaviour have often become the subject of investigation before 1918; however accusations in such cases have appeared to be proofless or inconclusive. Economic activities of officers have belonged to the less common phenomena. Punishments have been usually quite low...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 155-167
Count János Esterházy became one of the leading political figures of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia in 1930s. In 1932 he was elected a leader of one of two Hungarian parliamentary minority parties, the Provincial Christian-Socialist Party. In 1935 he took a seat in Chamber of Deputies of National Assembly and in 1936 he became an executive chairman of the United Hungarian Party (Egyesült Magyar Párt; EMP). Also thanks to his influence, legislators of both Hungarian parliamentary minority parties did not adopt a negative attitude towards the presidential election for the first time and voted for Edvard Beneš in December 1935. President Beneš...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 169-203
The study deals with so-called anti-parachutist subsection IV 2b of the Prague Gestapo Command Office in 1943-1945 and primarily concentrates on a personnel composition of this section. The opening part introduces circumstances of the large reorganization of all command offices of the Gestapo with the consequence of the subsection's establishment, resp. its transformation from the special section SBF established in 1942 after the attempt on R. Heydrich's life. On the basis the detailed testimony of the chief subsection IV 2b decipherer K. Schnabl (1911-?) and other sources, eight charts, which transparently show not only a structure and personnel composition...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 205-216
The article deals with the role of Czechoslovakia in the period of the Suez Crisis. It comes with the outline of mutual relations (especially in the military area) before the crisis and during this war. It briefly discusses shooting supplies and activities of military instructor groups with future prospects. The core of this study informs a reader about the establishment of the Czechoslovak battalion for needs of the United Nations' action to stop military operations in Egypt. All events are put in broader context of the world history at that time.
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 217-245
The Cabinet for Greek, Roman and Latin Studies was established in 1952 (officially, it has been running since 1 Jan 1953) as one of the research departments of newly founded ASCR. It has been perceived such as a highly specialized institute, the only one of this sort in the republic, dealing with Ancient history and also Latin studies in the era of the Middle Ages and Humanism and its influence on the Czech culture. As regards complicated international relations in the described period, a research cooperation of the Cabinet has been orientated (with some exceptions) especially on countries and research institutes of the socialist bloc. Their specialists...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 45 (2013), 247-264
The main aim of the thesis is the typology of conflicts between the Greek Catholic and Orthodox Church during normalization. After the restoration of Catholic Church's Byzantine Rite in 1968, the compromise between Greek Catholic and Orthodox Church did not come respectively an agreement on the division of assets, their property and legal relations got worse or even more. These relations resulted mainly in local conflicts that could be broadly classified according to the nature as the violent and non-violent. The first group were mainly incidents that started first with verbal insults, later grew into a disturbing personal domicile, and in some cases...
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