Historica Olomucensia vol. 59 (2020), 13-51 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2020.021
The Church of St. Peter was the oldest church in Olomouc, recorded in written sources as early as 1063 in connection with the restoration of the Moravian diocese. The see was transferred in 1141 to the Church of St. Wenceslaus. The onset of the thirteenth century (1207-1213) saw the Church of St. Peter settled by Augustinians, who lived here until the 1260s. By then the Church of St. Peter had become parish. The church was torn down due to the reforms of Joseph II in 1792.Excavation work in 1901 and 1902 and archaeological research in 1948 revealed the floor plan of the Gothic church, which was confirmed by addiotional research carried out between...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 59 (2020), 53-74 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2020.022
The text analyses the property strategies of an important nobleman of the first half of the fifteenth century, Hašek of Valdštejn. The study demonstrates that Hašek was focused on acquiring royal property lien (Ostroh, Víckov, Orlovice, Nový Hrad, Bludov). Although Hašek of Valdštejn is often mentioned in the documents as the owner of the property, Hašek managed all his property along with his brother Beneš. This includes the allod estate of Veliš, which, as written records maintain, had been acquired by Hašek of Valdštejn, but was actually governed by Hašek of Valdštejn and his brother Beneš. Hašek made a strategic decision before 1410 and moved all...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 59 (2020), 75-88 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2020.023
The paper maps out all the notarial instruments of Materna, an imperially authorized notary public and the son of the physician Martin of Kladsko. This cleric of the Prague diocese was one of the six notaries from the county of Kladsko. He wrote six of these specific texts of Medieval diplomacy between 1412 and 1421.The paper studies Materna's instruments from the palaeographic and the diplomatic perspective. The diplomatic description includes both the external description of the archived material and its content and an analysis of the document formulas and Materna's style. The comparison of his entire production was focused on deviations in stereotypical...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 59 (2020), 89-100 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2020.024
The monastery of the Český Krumlov Minorites boasts an outstandingly well-preserved archive fund - Minorité Český Krumlov, which is stored in the State Regional Archive in Třeboň. As the monastery was a joint double convent for both the Minorites and Poor Clares, the Minorite archives also tell of the life of local nuns. Most of the Minorite collection documents are from the times of Superior Hyacinth Sperl (1690-1754), who was in charge of the Český Krumlov monastery from 1726 until 1750. The main source of information about this time above is the five-volume monastery chronicle Liber magistralis. Addiotional data about life in the monastery were...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 59 (2020), 101-121 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2020.025
The article discusses the history of pencil-making on several levels. Firstly it deals with the development of graphite pencils, influenced by the discovery of natural graphite near Borrowdale in England in 1564. Secondly, it addresses the discoveries of artificial graphite by Nicolas-Jacques Conté (patented in 1795) and Joseph Hardtmuth (patented 1804 - the Viennese method), after which pencil production grew extensively as it was much cheaper compared to the "true" graphite. Thirdly, the paper describes Nuremberg and its surroundings in relation to the historical roots of pencil production - this natural junction of trade had a great influence on...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 59 (2020), 123-137 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2020.026
The study deals with the compatriot club called Czechoslovak Beseda Svatopluk Čech in Zurich in connection with the so-called Masaryk Campaign Abroad, during which TG Masaryk and his team promoted the Czech Lands in WWI with the view to establishing their autonomy and, in the final year of the War, declaring an independent Czechoslovak State.The Svatopluk Čech Club was one of the eminent compatriot clubs which supported the resistance movement in Switzerland. They also participated in illegal activities against Austria-Hungary. The club management and its members were consequently monitored by authorities reporting to the general staff of the imperial...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 59 (2020), 139-154 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2020.027
Entry into marriage was highly regulated for the gendarmerie by law. Even if a gendarme was permitted to marry, his married life continued to be supervised by his superiors. Occasionally, actual and perceived transgressions against social norms would be criticised by the public, and these cases would then be seen as a threat to the gendarmerie's reputation. A blemished married life often led to the relocation of the gendarme to a new area. Gendarmes, restricted in civil rights by regulations, could realize, however, their business, political or other ambitions through their wives. While marriages between gendarmerie and military families were common...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 59 (2020), 155-171 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2020.028
Representatives of the First Czechoslovak Republic Social Democratic Party exiled in London were generally united in the belief that the future Czechoslovakia needed to differ 'somehow' from the one destroyed in Munich. Yet, the history of exiled Czechoslovak Social Democracy during WWII is largely the story of a dispute between two sides: Social Democrats supporting the Czechoslovak President-in-exile Edvard Beneš, and presidential critics around Rudolf Bechyně. After the Soviet Union entered the war in the summer of 1941, the influence of the Communist Party grew accordingly, and the differing view of the two party wings became increasingly distinct...
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