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Tvrdohlavé Marie

Stubborn Marys seeks to answer the question of how women can achieve success in the field of top-level science. It weaves together and co...

Životní příběhy žen generace okouzlené vědou

Vojáci věčné války

Historical re-enactment is a challenging imaginative activity involving many thousands of participants within the Czech lands. Through th...

Militární reenactment v českých zemích mezi historickou rekonstrukcí a nevyřízenými účty dějin

Václav IV. Římský a český král

Doba, duchovní proudy a dění v předhusitských Čechách

První pražská defenestrace

The first defenestration of Prague launched the Hussite Revolution, which fundamentally changed the form of the late medieval Bohemian st...

Krvavá neděle uprostřed léta

Wenceslas IV

In dramatic circumstances on the hot summer day of 16 August 1419, Bohemian king Wenceslas IV died at Nový hrádek near Kunratice, away fr...

King of the Romans and of Bohemia and the Origins of the Hussite Revolution

Husitská revoluce II

The second volume of the third expanded and revised edition of Husitská revoluce brings together the third and fourth volumes of the prev...

Země vymknutá z kloubů

Slovenské dráhy 1918–1948

Rail transport in Slovakia saw a dramatic development in the first half of the 20th century. Historians Miroslav Sabol and Ľudovít Hallon...

The Stojka family

The book traces the history of a Romani family from the territory of today’s Slovakia across the 19th and 20th centuries. Working with a ...

Spatial mobility and territorial anchoredness of Lovara Vlax Roms in the former Czechoslovakia

Peasantry in the Cheb City-State in the Late Middle Ages

The medieval peasantry represents a particularly compelling unknown for historians, as it holds the key to understanding both later econo...

Socioeconomic Mobility and Migration

Klášter cisterciáků v Oseku

The history of the Cistercian monastery in Osek in North Bohemia began more than eight hundred years ago. In its first part, the book pre...

Ancient Weeds

The handbooks of literary studies usually tell us that the emergence of popular and junk literature is related to the emergence of modern...

Contours of Popular and Trash Literature in Ancient and Medieval Times

Čeští Židé a jejich devatenácté století

The book focuses on selected periods of 19th-century Jewish culture and literature that have not received much attention. Drawing on a wi...

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