This article examines the mutual relationship between King Sigismund of Luxembourg and his sister-in-law, Czech Queen Sophia of Bavaria. Sophia of Bavaria, the wife of Czech King Wenceslas IV, was forced to leave the Kingdom of Bohemia; accompanied by Wenceslas’ brother Sigismund, she left for Hungary. She spent the last several years of her life (1422-1428) in exile in Bratislava. The sojourn of the Queen in Bratislava is surrounded by many legends that originated primarily as a result of unilateral interpretations of Sophia’s correspondence with her brothers, Dukes Ernest and Wilhelm of Bavaria. This study attempts to confront this correspondence with available written sources from the Hungarian province. and Daniela Dvořáková.
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
Monografie navazuje na předešlou Kopečkovu práci Éra nevinnosti: Česká politika 1989-1997 (Brno, Barrister & Principal 2010) a pojednává o okolnostech a důsledcích takzvané opoziční smlouvy, kterou po volbách v roce 1998 uzavřely dvě největší české politické strany - sociální demokracie pod vedením Miloše Zemana a Občanská demokratická strana v čele s Václavem Klausem - o podmínkách tolerance Zemanovy vlády Klausovou opozicí. Předmětem politologického výkladu jsou jak hlavní aktéři tohoto mocenského paktu, tak početná opozice proti němu, které se podařilo zabránit, aby se proměnil ve stabilní systém dominance dvou stran. Přes až přílišnou závislost na žurnalistických pramenech představuje Deformace demokracie? podle recenzenta spolu s autorovou předešlou publikací základní syntézu o českém politickém vývoji po pádu komunistického režimu., The publication under review, whose title translates as "A deformation of democracy? The opposition agreement and Czech politics, 1998-2002", follows on from Kopeček´s Éra nevinnosti: Česká politika 1989-1997 (The age of innocence. Czech politics 1989-97, Brno: Barrister a. Principal, 2010). It is concerned with the circumstances and consequences of what was popularly known as the Opposition Agreement, which, after the general elections of 1998, was signed by the two largest Czech political parties - the Social Democratic Party, led by Miloš Zeman (b. 1944), and the Civic Democratic Party, led by Václav Klaus (b. 1941) - and concerns the terms and conditions under which the Klaus-led opposition would tolerate the Zeman-led government. The focus of this political-science interpretation is not only the main actors of the agreement but also the large opposition to it. The latter ultimately succeeded in preventing the pact from leading to a system run by only two parties. Despite its excessive dependence on journalistic sources, the publication, according to the reviewer, constitutes, together with the author´s preceding volume, a fundamental work on Czech political developments since the collapse of the Communist regime., [autor recenze] Petr Roubal., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy