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Vyšší Brod 42

Manuscript 42 from the Cistercian monastery in Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurth), Czech Republic, compiled in 1410, today represents one of the mos...

A Unique Music Source from Pre-Hussite Bohemia

Templáři

Have the Templars really disappeared? And their famous treasure with them? Has the curse uttered by the last Grand Master of the Order at...

Vybájený poklad a skutečná moc

Okno příležitosti

Even with borders closed, the environment brings people together. As tensions between East and West began to ease in the late 1980s, a wi...

Životní prostředí a přeshraniční vztahy na březích Dyje 1984–1995

Emperor Charles IV and the Origins of the Great Schism, c. 1375–1378

Emperor Otto I the Great made history in the Holy Roman Empire with a significant dynastic achievement: in 967, he persuaded the pope to ...

Filling in the Gap

This volume provides an insight into the world of the Carolingian monks and clerics who created the fascinating liturgical organism known...

The Post Pentecost Series of Gospel Antiphons

Mezi solidaritou a zklamáním

The COVID-19 pandemic was an absolute social phenomenon, a period of both urgent and less serious crises, and a time that can reveal a lo...

Česko v době covidové a postcovidové

Od trestu k terapii

How did experts living in post-war Europe understand violence? The book explores the approaches of psychiatrists and psychologists to vio...

Forenzní psychiatrie v poválečné obnově Evropy

Charles IV. Portrait of a Medieval Ruler

Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called “one of the most learned and diplomatically skillful sovereigns” of t...

Living Torches in the Soviet Bloc

Living Torches in the Soviet Bloc presents the lives of those who chose self-immolation as a radical form of protest against the politica...

Politically motivated cases of self-immolation in 1966–1989

Člověk na železnici 1

For two centuries, the railway has been a place where the stories of all kinds of passengers intersect – including those of politicians, ...

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Dějiny cisterckého řádu v Čechách 1142–1420. Svazek IV

The book Constants and Changes in Monastic Life is the fourth and concluding volume of the series entitled A History of Cistercian Order ...

Konstanty a proměny klášterního života

Hospodářský vzestup českých zemí od poloviny 18. století do konce monarchie

From the reign of Maria Theresa and Joseph II to the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the Czech lands underwent fundamental economic, social,...