This study is the first part of a planned series of articles on the issue of disputations about Wyclif in connection with his 45 articles. It analyses the anonymous undated refutation of Oxford University’s testimonial on the blameless life and work of John Wyclif, and makes it accessible in a critical edition in the form of an appendix. By taking into consideration manuscript preservation, argumentation, and literary arrangement as well as chronology, the author proves for the first time the immediate relation of the refutation to the Carthusian cloister of Údolí Josafat (Valley of Josephat) in Dolany near Olomouc and its prior Štěpán of Dolany. A component of the study is an excursion into the issue of Archbishop Zbyněk’s synodal directive to surrender books by Wyclif. and Dušan Coufal.
Liberalization of political and ideological barriers after the fall of Communistic regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989 has led to intensification of research of period 1918-1948. Although it presents relatively short historical period, it involved some milestones like first Czechoslovak Republic, after-Munich fall of democratic parliamentary, the Second World War and transformation after the war, that altogether resulted in start of Communistic regime in February 1948. and Jaroslav Šebek.
Kniha původně vyšla ve Spojených státech pod titulem The Long Road to Victory: A History of Czechoslovak Exile Organizations after 1968 (Boulder (Colorado) - New York, East European Monographs - Columbia University Press 2012). Raškova práce je podle recenzenta výsledkem pečlivého zkoumání osobních sbírek a pramenů v archivech v České republice, Velké Británii, Spojených státech a Itálii. Jedná se o unikátní shrnující studii, jež přichází s řadou zajímavých zjištění o dosud málo známé exilové kapitole československých dějin. Autor v devíti kapitolách seznamuje s „druhým dechem“ československého exilu, tedy se spolky, organizacemi a osobnostmi, které měly silné slovo v exilové veřejnosti po roce 1968, poté co na Západě přibyla další masivní vlna uprchlíků z Československa, vypuzená vpádem vojsk Varšavské smlouvy. Recenzovaná práce sice v tomto směru nepokrývá úplné exilové spektrum, představuje však mimořádně užitečnou příručku., The book under review is a Czech translation of The Long Road to Victory: A History of Czechoslovak Exile Organizations after 1968 (Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia UP, 2012). Raška´s work is, according to the reviewer, the result of careful research using personal papers and other archival documents in the Czech Republic, Great Britain, the United States, and Italy. It is a unique comprehensive work that offers much that is new and of interest, concerning a little known chapter in the history of Czechs and Slovaks in exile. In nine chapters, the author acquaints us with Czechoslovak life in exile, that is, clubs, organizations, and individuals, after they had caught their second wind, and were listened to by other exiles after 1968, once the West had received the large wave of Czechoslovak refugees driven out of their country by the Warsaw Pact military intervention. Although the book under review does not, in that sense, cover the full range of exiles and their activities, it remains an extraordinarily useful work of reference., [autor recenze] Martin Nekola., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy