Historica Olomucensia vol. 38 (2010), 9-19
The ministeriality as a solely medieval phenomena, typical especially for the Roman-German Empire, is interesting for a couple of reasons. Not only because it puts into question our previous traditional concepts of the medieval society, but also for its origin and increasing significance and influence between the periods of the 11th and 13th centuries, which is also known as a 'classical period' of the ministeriality. From the not-freeborn social class some influential and indispensable ministeriales gradually arise under the Hohenstaufen rulers, and those ministeriales played an important role not only in local politics but also throughout the entire...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 38 (2010), 21-30
The legal institute of guardianship, as defined by the Town Law of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the March of Moravia, which was confirmed in the year 1579 and expired with the publication of the General Civil Code in the year 1811, ensured underage orphans and their property legal protection. There were different kinds of orphan's property trusteeship and the respective form depended on the initial account balance of the property. In a case when debts exceeded the receivables, the whole or a part of the property was generally sold. The yield of sale was then kept in the orphan's treasury at the Town Hall. Often the Town Council and the orphan's guardians...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 38 (2010), 31-39
The author examines the possibility of researching the mutual relations of the bourgeoisie and workers on the local level, taking into account the availability of sources and the likelihood of receiving inspiration from foreign research. The author's starting point is the class theory of Max Weber with his concept of the "contact". The Czech, or Austro-Hungarian, environment offers us a very interesting background, as it combines the influence of a conservative state with liberal-oriented bourgeois governments in the larger municipalities. Furthermore, the development of the working class was in many respects unique within Europe. This was the result...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 38 (2010), 41-54
The 19th century was for the whole South American continent a century of a great changes. The United States became industrial great power and started to raise its international ambitions, at the end of the century in Latin America and Pacific in particular. The first quarter of the century in Latin America was characterized by wars for independence, through which the continent liberated itself from the rule of the old colonial powers - Spain and Portugal. The character of those wars is still a matter of large dispute among scholars, who study the question of existence of modern nations in the region during this period. Nevertheless it seems, that recently...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 38 (2010), 55-61
The text of this article was presented as a lecture to the students of history at the Philosophical Faculty of the Palacký University, Olomouc in 2010. The author analyses factors and processes leading to the break-out of the Great War 1914-1918 and doing so, he examines three main areas: international relations, economy, and the cultural situation in Europe in general. He argues that the in historiography usual reduction of the "causes" of war to one or two historical facts is further impossible to maintain. In the multi-causal model, it is on the other hand difficult to find an unifying structure among all the historical facts and to appraise their...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 38 (2010), 63-87
Monastic priest - Premonstratensian PhDr. Isidor Zahradník counts among the most interesting and controversial figures of the Czech clerical history at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He began his career as a curate in Jihlava where he was an active preacher and vigorous organizer of national life. The German city administration, however, forced him to leave for Prague where he started working at the Strahov monastic library and very soon became an expert in Czech prints. However, he probably was not completely satisfied with his career as a scholarly researcher, and so he left the Strahov Monastery in order to become an inspector of the Church...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 38 (2010), 89-97
This paper focuses on the reaction of the Czech security forces in the Egerland area and the growing threat of Nazism within this context during the years 1933-1938. From the examined archive documents it appears that even though the Czech security forces took action against the radical political party Deutsche nationalsozialistiche Arbeiterpartei, their actions against the growing Henlein's separatist movement was slow and gradual.In the years 1933-1936, the security forces predominantly restrained themselves to keeping order during the Nazi meetings and to monitoring and charting the major Nazi activists including Konrad Henlein. Only in 1936...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 38 (2010), 99-112
Czechoslovakia already had some tradition of the arms trade from the pre-World War II period. After the second World War and the establishment of the communist power monopoly in February of 1948, this tradition was to an extent revived. The world entered into a period of tension and expectation of a military conflict.Each block therefore tried to enlarge it's sphere of influence, and Czechoslovakia played a unique role as being the main weapons supplier.The task of this paper is, therefore, to reconstruct the course and the form of this part of Czechoslovak history - a unique and scarcely known operation MTC Cairo - and to point out its broader...
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