This article focuses on military handbooks from the first half of the 17th century placed in the collections of the Military History Institute Prague. In the introduction, it summarises the history and structure of the collection of early printed books in the library under study. After that, it characterises the set of the handbooks i.a. in terms of their topic, the language and the publisher’s provenance, as well as format. Its main aim is to analyse the frontispieces and engraved title pages of these publications with regard to the iconographic motifs that are usually depicted on them. The final part of the work outlines the possibilities of using the frontispieces and engraved title pages of the studied publications as iconographic sources in historiography and it places the title illustrations of the military handbooks in a wider context., Klára Andresová., Obsahuje anglický abstrakt a shrnutí., and Obsahuje bibliografii
In addition to providing subsistence and consumable resources, one of the most important features of water is the ability to provide transport and communication between geographically separated areas. In both uses, vehicles play a key role. While current research into boats and ships on the seas is relatively well recognised, recent results in the area of inland waterways seem to be barely taken into account in current investigations. Too foten scientist have to rely on an otdate state of research, but in fact several findings have laterl been re-edited and presented. This article provides an updated look at the subject of inland navigation in the Early and Hig Middle Ages and focuses especially on current pbuliactions or those that are difficult to obtain. Further, an overview on the state of research in neighbouring countries is offered, thereby presenting a fuller view of the subject´s potentional., Lars Kröger., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Early historic settlements on the lower course of the Morava River (Lower Austria) - continuity and discontinuity of the cultural landscape: Prehistoric and early historic settlement region on the lower stream of the Morava River represents a typical setlement landscape influenced by the presnece of a river. A route along the Morava River was used as a interregional way, so called Amber Path, with a ford in the southern direction frm Macegg. This is proved by the chronological and spatial distribution of the archaological sites on the region. This way corresponds to a settlements chain on the western margin of the ravine, however any path structure was archaelogicaly documented here., Marianne Pollak., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Kniha líčí životy necelých dvou stovek jugoslávských politických emigrantů, kteří se po roztržce mezi Sovětským svazem a Jugoslávií v roce 1948 natrvalo usadili v Československu, aby manifestovali svou věrnost Stalinovi a odpor k Josipu Brozi Titovi. Recenzent oceňuje, že autor do hloubky ukazuje mikrokosmos jejich prostředí, připomínající ghetto, a zpřítomňuje ideologií a vášněmi nasáklou atmosféru zakladatelské fáze komunistického režimu. Z perspektivy „jugoslávského problému“ přitom nasvětluje některé vztahy a mechanismy fungování komunistické diktatury v Československu, a právě tento druhý rozměr podle recenzenta povyšuje práci na zřetelně nadstandardní úroveň. Za jedinou výraznější slabinu pokládá chybějící teoretické zakotvení výkladu., This publication considers the lives of almost 200 Yugoslav political exiles, who, after the rift between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1948, settled permanently in Czechoslovakia, where they could manifest their loyalty to Stalin and opposition to Josip Broz Tito. The reviewer appreciates that depth with which the author discusses the microcosm these exiles lived in, which in some respects resembled a ghetto, and he presents a vivid picture of the ideology and the atmosphere, fraught with passion, of the founding phase of the Communist régimes. Considering the ‘Yugoslav Question’, he casts light on some relations and mechanisms in the operation of the Communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, and it is this second dimension, according to the reviewer, which elevates the work clearly above the usual standards. One of the marked weak points, according the reviewer, is the absence of a theoretical basis of the interpretation., [autor recenze] Přemysl Houda., and Obsahuje bibliografii
The study offers a basic overview of the manuscripts of the ars memorativa treatises in late medieval Czech lands. On the basis of the surviving evidence it is possible to prove that during the 15th century this ancient art (however suspicious and cumbersome it may seem today) was known and practiced here. It coexisted with general (often primarily medical) set of advices on efficient studying some of which openly criticize the art of memory for being too impractical. Besides copies of Italian and West European art of memory models, there is a number of these treatises and shorter treatments of the art composed in the Czech lands. Each of them includes specific features and innovations not encountered elsewhere. The manuscript context of ars memorativa shows that it was not seen as a part of rhetoric theory intended for a restricted number of intellectuals but as a means of storing and recuperating important information actively used especially by students and preachers. and Lucie Doležalová.
During a resecue excavation in the area of Mušov-Neurissen (Land-register territory Mušov, municipality Pasohlávky, district Brno-venkov) in 1993-1994 we investigated an area with numerous traces of Roman military presence, and we also found evidence for settlement activities of local barbarian populations. An important Marcomannic wars site is located beneath Burgstall hill. In the area of Neurissen (Mušov-Neurissen IV), human skeletons (34 individuals) and parts of animal skeletons have been found. This article is focused on small artefacts of barbarian provenance which have been recovered from the ditch filling. One possible interpretation of this unusual find is that the humans found in the ditch were killed and discarded in the ditch during rituals, the details of which remain unknown., Ondrej Šedo., and Obsahuje seznam literatury