Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025)
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 126-129 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2025.020
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 130-134 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2025.021
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 135-140 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2025.022
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 5-19 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.006
This article explores English-language prints concerning the early days of Frederick V of the Palatinate’s reign in Bohemia, with a particular focus on propaganda strategies. Taking John Harrison’s A Short Relation of the Departure of the High and Mightie Prince Frederick as a central material, it examines how English readers were encouraged to support Frederick and his wife, Elizabeth Stuart, during the turbulent early stages of the Thirty Years’ War. The study situates Harrison’s work within broader debates about early modern print culture and literacy, mentioning both the limits and the potential of pamphlet literature...
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 20-29 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.009
Medieval and early modern urban society was highly structured and essentially closed, with a variety of social, confessional, cultural, professional, and gender-diverse groups coexisting in the same city. A key ritual that symbolized the city’s cohesion was the annual renewal of the city council, which took place in both royal and dependent cities. These ceremonies followed a fixed format and were an important part of the city’s governance, with outgoing councillors proposing their successors. The composition of the council, often a twelve-member, reflected the symbolism of the twelve apostles. The renewal ceremony involved several rituals,...
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 30-48 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.008
This paper focuses on the dynamics of the relationship between monarchical power and guild institutions within the Estates during the 15th and 16th centuries. It analyses the evolution of these relationships, paying particular attention to the granting of guild privileges, especially those associated with the creation and transformation of guild symbols. Such privileges often bear the insignia of royal power and the monarch’s personal initials, creating a direct link between monarchical and guild representation. The paper also examines the relationship between the increasing number of privileges granted and the formation of the Estates State,...
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 49-70 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.005
During the 15th and 16th centuries, it is possible to observe the dynamic development of regulations contained in guild privileges in serf towns. Many of them did not focus only on the economic functioning of the guilds, but also aimed to their ceremonial roles and modes of public representation. They extended into the private lives of guild members, compelling them to present themselves in specific ways not only within the guild community but also within the broader urban society as well. This study seeks to examine selected ceremonial aspects of guild corporations and to reconstruct their forms and functions in the towns owened by the bishops of...
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 71-83 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.004
The monastery of the Discalced Augustinians in Německý Brod was founded in the 1670s. The initiator of the order’s arrival in the royal city was the imperial court and the chamber. Initial conflicts with the city council and the local dean were quite heated. The city council argued about the lack of financial resources to support the mendicant order after several major fires and economic problems after the Thirty Years’ War. The Augustinians represented competition for the dean. Nevertheless, the monastery managed to establish itself in the city, and its (self)presentation also played a significant role in this. From the few preserved,...
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 84-101 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.010
When examining the topic of the festive culture of the elite nobility of the Early Modern Habsburg monarchy, it is worth looking through the eyes of an aristocrat who knew how to celebrate equally well out of joy as out of necessity, be it in the countryside, in the city, or at the imperial court. Johann Joachim von Zierotin (1667–1716) spent nearly fifty years between Velké Losiny and the nearby domains that he owned, as well as in Wrocław, where he visited family relatives and later also his studying sons, Brno, where he traveled for the sessions of the land diet and court, and Vienna, where he served as the actual imperial chamberlain. What...
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 102-115 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.001
The paper aims to shed light on the circumstances that led to the signing of the first Franco-Japanese trade treaty in 1858. Because of the growing interest of the great powers in Japan in the second half of the 19th century, the study also follows the development of the French approach to the Japanese Islands and briefly addresses also the implementation of trade agreements and the growth of xenophobic tendencies in Japan. The core of the work is focused on the analysis of French interests in Japan and the effort to include them in the value spectrum of French foreign policy.
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 116-117 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.002
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 118-120 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.003
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 121-123 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2026.007
Historica Olomucensia 2 (2025), 124-125 | DOI: 10.5507/ho.2025.019
