Jan Raymund (1737-1808) was a member of the Maltese convent of Our Lady beneath the Chain in Prague. He worked as a preacher and later also a parish priest at the church of Our Lady Victorious in Prague. He is the author of a number of printed books containing mainly sermons. Five volumes with manuscript collections of his sermons and one short historiographical work have been preserved as well. He created a library with more than 1,300 simple shelf marks, of which it has been possible to trace 111 volumes., Pavel Trnka., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
a1_Autor rekapituluje vědeckou dráhu historika Mečislava Boráka (narozen 1945) a podává obsáhlý výběr z jeho bibliografie. Zdůrazňuje jeho regionální zakotvení v historii Těšínska a českého Slezska, které však dokázal úspěšně překračovat a vřazovat do měřítka celostátního a mezinárodního, stejně jako propojoval roviny mikro- a makrohistorie. Vždy ho zajímaly osudy obyčejných lidí, jejichž životní příběhy dokázal zajímavě a originálně zasadit do obecnějšího rámce „velkých“ dějin. K tématům, která ho zaujala, se opakovaně vracel a pokaždé přinesl nová fakta a pohledy, na jejichž základě byl schopen revidovat a rozšířit dřívější závěry a prohloubit stávající historické poznání. Před rokem 1989 se soustředil na témata německé okupace a odboje, poté se jeho záběr rozšířil na výzkum politických represí obyvatelstva v Československu i ve střední a východní Evropě od konce třicátých do poloviny padesátých let minulého století. Byl průkopníkem studia takzvaného retribučního soudnictví, svébytný tematický okruh představovalo zkoumání holokaustu a různých forem perzekuce židovského obyvatelstva, dalším jeho stěžejním tématem se stal katyňský zločin a jeho oběti původem z českých zemí, odtud pokročil k vyhledávání, evidenci a zpracování případů politických perzekucí Čechů a Slováků na území Sovětského svazu, posledním jeho velkým badatelským zájmem je pak situace polské menšiny a mezietnických vztahů v kontextu česko(slovensko)-polských soudobých dějin. Jeho vědecká dráha je dlouhodobě spojena s Ostravskou univerzitou, Slezskou univerzitou v Opavě, Slezským muzeem tamtéž a rovněž s Ústavem pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR v Praze., a2_Aktivity profesora Boráka zahrnují dvě desítky odborných knih, více než půldruhou stovku studií, účast na řešení téměř čtyř desítek výzkumných projektů, rozsáhlou editorskou, expertní a poradenskou, ale také publicistickou a popularizační činnost. Z půldruhé desítky dokumentárních filmů, které připravil jako scenárista a moderátor, měl mimořádný ohlas především Zločin jménem Katyň, který získal řadu cen na mezinárodních festivalech., b1_The author looks back at the career of the historian Mečislav Borák (b. 1945) on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, and discusses a large selection of his publications. He emphasizes Borák’s well-rooted regional interests in Těšínsko (Cieszyn Silesia, Těšín Silesia, or Teschen Silesia) and Czech Silesia, which, however, Borák has successfully moved beyond to precisely include the Czechoslovak and international context, as well as linking together micro- and macrohistory. He has always been interested in ordinary people, whose life stories he has put into the larger framework of ‘big’ history in an interesting and original way. He has repeatedly returned to topics that have interested him, each time coming up with new facts and views, allowing him to review and expand previous conclusions, and to add considerably to our knowledge of these histories. Before the Changes of late 1989, Borák focused on topics of the German occupation and the resistance to it. Later, he expanded his areas of interest to include research on acts of political oppression against the people of Czechoslovakia and, more broadly, central and eastern Europe, from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. He was a pioneer in research on the courts of retribution. A distinctive area of his research was his work on the history of the Shoah and various forms of persecution of the Jews. Another of his later key topics was the Katyn massacre and its victims from the Bohemian Lands. From here Borák proceeded to search for, record, and make sense of cases of the political persecution of Czechs and Slovaks in the Soviet Union. His most recent field of research is the Polish minority and inter-ethnic relations in the context of Czechoslovak-Polish and Czech-Polish contemporary history., b2_His academic career has long been connected with the University of Ostrava, the University of Silesia in Opava, the Silesian Museum, also in Opava, and the Institute of Contemporary History, in Prague. Professor Borák has published two dozen specialist books and more than 150 articles. He has participated in at least three dozen research projects, worked extensively as an editor, expert, and consultant, and also written works of journalism and popular history. Of the more than a dozen documentary films he has worked on as a screen-writer and narrator, the film Zločin jménem Katyň (A Crime Called Katyn), was particularly well received, and won a number of prizes at international film festivals., and Dušan Janák.
This article discusses an animal sculpture pendant, probably representing a deer, made from a tin-lead alloy, found in a waste layer at the bottom of a Medieval mill race. This item is unusual for the Czech Republic, although numerous similar items are known from Western Europe., Lenka Macháňová, Martin Hložek, Rudolf Procházka., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
At the beginning of the 18th century, numerous printing workshops were founded in the Czech countryside. On the example of the Znojmo printing workshop, the text follows the establishment of a new workshop in the region; it asks questions about the reasons for it and tries to define groups of the workshop’s customers and to determine the possible share of the printing production in the transformation of the society at that time. The article is divided into two complementary parts. The small Znojmo workshop is first presented through its owners whose fates were decisive for its functioning; on the basis of archival research, the existing picture of its operation is then corrected and complemented by means of contextualised biographical explanation. The second section provides, building on the analysis of extant printed books, the typology of their commissioners and presents the range of the workshop’s publications. Based on these analyses, the concluding part attempts to answer the questions raised above and outline the research directions that should complement the existing results. Besides the detailed description of the workshop’s production, the article presents the relations of the workshop to Moravian and partly also Lower Austrian printing workshops, the basic features of the distribution network, as well as the structure of the printed books published not to order but at the initiative and risk of the printer., Jiří Dufka., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy