Právněhistorické studie / Legal History Studies (Charles University journal; below referred to as PHS or Journal) is a scientific journal listed in the international prestigious database SCOPUS. The journal is published by Charles University in Prague under the guarantee of the Department of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University. It is published by the Karolinum Press. The journal focuses on the field of legal history and related topics.
Issue 1 of the Journal was published by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Publishing in June 1955. The Journal was initially published by the Cabinet of Legal History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science (CSAV), later by the Institute of State and Law (CSAV) and then by the Institute of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of Charles University.
PHS is issued three times a year in April, August, and December and it presents original scientific works/papers as well as reviews, annotations and news from the scientific field of legal history. It also introduces annotated texts of a legal history nature. PHS accepts manuscripts from domestic as well as foreign authors. Manuscripts submitted by foreign authors are published in original language, namely in English, Slovak, German, French, Italian or Polish.
PHS (ISSN 0079-4929) is registered in the Czech national ISSN centre (supervised by the State Technical Library). The Journal is registered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic according to Act No. 46/2000 Sb., on Rights and Liabilities for the Publishing of Periodicals and Change of Some Acts (Press Act), and it is allocated with registration number of periodical press MK E 18813.
PHS is an open journal and ensures open access to scientific data (Open Access). The entire content is released as open to the public on the web pages of the journal.
The journal is archived in Portico.
PRÁVNĚHISTORICKÉ STUDIE, Vol 44 No 1 (2014), 67–79
K otázce viny a trestu Jana z Pomuku
[On the Guilt and Punishment of John of Nepomuk]
Jan Kotous
published online: 25. 02. 2015
abstract
The tragic end of John of Pomuk, a Czech national saint (saint John of Nepomuk), was predetermined by the complicated social and political situation in Bohemia at the end of the 14th century represented by two dominant personalities – King Wenceslaus IV and Prague Archbishop John of Jenstejn. The goal of Wenceslaus IV and of his Council was to make the Church into an instrument of reign (instrumentum regni). The King and his surroundings regarded any attempt for independent decisions and individual approach exceeding the scope of the Sovereign’s will as a crime of high treason and lese-majesty (crimen laise maiestatis). In fact, there was a long-lasting competence dispute over the authority of canon law and church immunity between the State represented by the King and the Church represented by the Archbishop. Vicar-general John of Nepomuk, who was executed by drowning at the King’s orders, became a victim of that dispute.
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