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Historica Olomucensia vol. 40 (2011), 11-24
A historiography-methodological introduction into the inspirational synthetic approaches of Austrian and German historiographic(al) production to the 19th century has brought the following results: 1. the description of solely political and cultural history does not meet the requirements for successful synthesis; 2. the history of society is the principal paradigm of the present days; 3. this history of society is based on three respected and potentially modifiable pillars which are defined by the slogans Wirtschaft - Herrschaft - Kultur; or rather Arbeit - Macht - Sprache; 4. the history of society from the structuralist point of view ceases to be...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 40 (2011), 25-51
The purpose of this article, based on a lecture given at the Department of History, Palacky University in Olomouc, is to present the readers with some insight into the complex set of motivations that led one part of the United States to embrace the "states' rights" theory and, in the end, to put it into a political reality, starting the American civil war. Author explicitly follows two main sources of motivation - the cultural dichotomy of the original colonial society, the one which grew over time instead of leveling itself - i.e., the tension between agrarian and ever more conservative South, more and more dependent on its "peculiar institution"...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 40 (2011), 53-63
The General Civil Code, published for the non-Hungarian area of the Habsburg monarchy in 1811, belonged in those days to the most progressive norms revising civil law in Europe. The monarchy was in a (very) complicated situation and was exhausted by the long-lasting war. The Financial Patent must have been published in spring 1811. It changed significantly the economic situation of all inhabitants. In the context of that time, the Financial Patent was more noticeable than the new Civil Code. Nevertheless, the impacts of the changed civil law were apparent in the very next period. The most visible changes could have been found and proved among wealthier...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 40 (2011), 65-93
The author, inspired by Pierre Nora, focuses on busts, statues and monuments of the prominent Czech historian and politician František Palacký (1798 - 1876), who was also called the "Father of the Czech nation". He pays special attention to Moravia where Palacký was born in Hodslavice, Wallachia. The artefact installations in public space culminated when the foundation stone of his stately monument was laid (1898) and then unveiled in Prague (1912). Between 1876 and 1912 this type of founding new places of memory was connected with the Czech national festivals. The elements of (pseudo)religious rituals and theatre performances including various stage...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 40 (2011), 95-108
Beda Dudík (1815-1890), the prospective Moravian historiographer and a monk of the Benedictine abbey in Rajhrad, was one of the students who obtained the doctor's degree at František University in Olomouc. Abbot Viktor Schlossar supported him in his effort to obtain higher education because the monastery in Rajhrad was obliged to provide the philosophical institute in Brno with some teachers throughout its existence. Dudík completed the first part of the preparation for his doctoral exams privately during his theological studies in Brno, the second part during his one-year sojourn in Olomouc (September 1839-July 1840). He kept his private diary and...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 40 (2011), 109-124
The aim of this contribution is the search for the position of Catholic journeymen unions as the first associations of young workers and craftsmen in the Czech Lands in the prehistory of the Christian-social movement. The study refers to the causes of the journeymen movement formation in the Czech Lands which was adopted from the German area. It expounds its activity through a case study about the history of the union in Prague. In the second part of the article the author mentions some facts about the life and work of P. František Koželuha, one of the protagonists of this movement in the Czech area, on the background of his activity in Prostějov....
Historica Olomucensia vol. 40 (2011), 125-140
The formation of the Czechoslovak state in 1918 was a novelty in the Central European area. It became a new component of international politics. Its existence was accepted neither by neighbouring countries nor by the Holy See. Vatican was "shocked" with the events which took place after the Czechoslovakia was established. There were iconoclastic riots, plunder of churches and chapels, destruction of sculptures of the Saints, cutting of wayside shrines. People left the Catholic Church and dishonoured everything religious. Vatican took a delaying stand on it. The relations between the Czechoslovak Republic and the representatives of the Holy See were...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 40 (2011), 143-146
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