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The personality of a Moravian warrior Jan Jiskra of Brandýs has gone down in the history of many countries. His military career represents an extraordinary rise to power. In 1440, he entered into the services of the Queen Dowager Elizabeth as an experienced warrior who had proved himself successfully in the services of Elizabeth's father, the Emperor Sigismund and her husband Albrecht, a Holy Roman Emperor and the King of Hungary and Bohemia. The Queen defended her recently born son Ladislaus the Posthumous and his rights to the Hungarian throne. Her rival was a Polish King Wladyslaw III who accepted the proposal of the Hungarian delegation on March...
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The period from 1813 to 1815 saw the final stage of Napoleonic wars in which the French emperor was definitely defeated and Central Europe was liberated from his supremacy. This conflict has become known in the German historical memory such as wars of independence. According to a traditional interpretation, during the course of events a large popular uprising spread over the whole Germany and all social classes whose supporters ought to fight not only for freedom but also for the establishment of the German national state. The present paper attempts to support the groundlessness of this claim and to point out the fact that a question of a political...
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The article describes information about students of the Philosophical Faculty of the Francis University in years 1827-1837. 20% of the students were students of the Philosophical Faculty. Obligatory subjects were restricted to the students of the Philosophical Faculty, while the optional subjects could be also attended by other students.The offer of the obligatory subjects was not changing compared to the offer of some of the optional subjects. There were subjects that took place every year, but also subjects that took place every odd year. As regards national groups they were mostly represented by Moravians, then Silesians and Czechs.
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The paper represents the first attempt to outline political activities of Ján Donoval, who has been more known such as a poet Tichomír Milkin up to the present. It is understandable because his literary qualities have been more considerable in a comparison with political ones. He belonged to a small group of Catholic priests, who decided from various reasons, the most often personal ambitions, to participate in the Agrarian Party labelled such as liberal or even non-Catholic. As a prominent linguist, he cooperated on publishing the Catholic Newspapers considered a press party body. At the same time, his name also appeared on a government list of candidates...
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The paper deals with the analysis of British-Egyptian relations in years 1892-1907, when a post of the British Consul - General in Cairo was held by Lord Cromer. At the end of 1890s the occupation of Egypt gained a long-term character, which led to more intensive interference of the British into the course of the Egyptian administration. When Khedive Tawfīq died in January 1892, the British position became more complicated as a consequence of the succession of his Anglophobic son Abbas II Hilmi. The following two years Lord Cromer had to struggle with Khedive's attitudes that gradually crystallised against the British presence in the country....
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The aim of this article is the analysis of the Catholic modernist print (periodicals Nový život, Rozvoj, Mane, Bílý prapor a Rozkvět) as a literal and ecclesiastical reformatory movement developing its activities in Czech lands at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. It tries to trace the relationship of Catholic modernists towards ideas of Cyril and Methodius, the heritage of the life's work of Slavic apostles Saints Cyril and Methodius, Cyril and Methodius and Velehrad traditions. The Catholic Modernism claimed allegiance to Cyril and Methodius traditions after 1889 when was forming as a movement attempting to transform Czech society under the...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 46 (2014), 127-168
The present paper is concerned with a relation between reforming movement within the western church, usually referred to as the Gregorian reform, and formative stages of the development of the canonical jurisprudence from the perspective of modern historiography. The point of departure is Paul Fourniers' thesis presented in his article Un tournant de l'histoire du droit (1060-1140), published in 1917, which represents not only the first serious attempt to answer the question, but also the establishment of the field of interest for the further research. The first half of this essay reiterates Fourniers' argumentation, its influence on historiography,...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 46 (2014), 169-178
The matter of this study is a satirical science fiction short story Soumrak četnictva written by Bohumil Mladý in 1921, in which the author reacts to main issues of the security service. They appear to be primarily in bureaucratization of gendarmerie. Mladý responds to some real events of that period and satirizes concrete personalities in his book. The author urges to reduce administration and to modernize and professionalize security forces, furthermore, he emphasizes the necessity to inform the public more about gendarmerie problems.It is necessary to perceive the book in a context of a conflict dealing with a military or civil character of...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 46 (2014), 179-195
The paper The Changes in the Holy See of Saint Peter on the Eve of the Second World War deals with last months of the pontificate of Pius XI (1922-1939) and first months of the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958) in connection with the dynamic development in pre-war Europe. The author outlines personalities of both pontiffs, their spiritual and political activities. The core of the work is a period between mid-January and mid-March in 1939, when Pius XI died, the funeral took place and a new convocation of Cardinals met and selected his successor from their midst, the pope Pius XII. Pius XII followed politics of his predecessor to a certain extent,...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 46 (2014), 197-219
A relatively large collection of written sources of the Czechoslovak provenience, its government and institutes, are materials coming from activities of the Czechoslovak Foreign Institute, the Consulate General in Sydney and the emigrant Czechoslovak Club in Sydney. Representatives of these institutes officially communicated together, informed each other and cooperated because of their mutual goals. Czechoslovak Communist government also received information about exiles from its secret policy, which utilized sources of secret collaborators from ranks of civil inhabitants as well.Czechoslovak Communist government attempted to have an overview of...
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