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Elusive equality
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ISBN: 082294281X 9780822971030 0822971038 9780822942818 9780822961970 0822961970 Year: 2006 Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA University of Pittsburgh Press

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"Through extensive original research, Melissa Feinberg assembles a compelling account of how early Czech progress in women's rights, tied to democratic reforms, eventually lost momentum in the face of political challenges facing the state in a young republic. Elusive Equality offers a prism to help sharpen our view of the evolution of twentieth-century European democracy and provides a cautionary tale for all who want to see democratic governments thrive."--Jacket


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The Velislav Bible, the finest picture Bible of the Late Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9048529735 9789048529735 9789462980440 9462980446 9462980446 9789462980440 Year: 2018 Volume: 4 Publisher: Amsterdam

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The Velislav Bible is one of the most beautiful medieval Bohemian manuscripts. It is a heavily illustrated manuscript that contains only short selections of the text, that instruct the reader about the story depicted. The last picture in the manuscript shows a man kneeling before St. Catherine, identified as Velislav, hence the name of the manuscript. The Bible comprises stories from the Books of Genesis and Exodus, visions of Daniel, and the stories of Samson as well as of Judith. The narrative of the Antichrist precedes the Christological part. The New Testament continues with the Book of Revelation, stories following the Ascension of Christ, and key events from the lives of St. Peter and St. Paul. The manuscript closes with the legend of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia. The essays in The Velislav Bible, Finest Picture-Bible of the Late Middle Ages: Biblia depicta as Devotional, Mnemonic and Study Tool analyze the manuscript from historical, textual, art-historical, and iconographic perspectives. However, a shared concern of all the authors is to think about its functions. An edition of the Latin titulis is being published here for the first time.

Schriften im Umkreis mitteleuropäischer Universitäten um 1400
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ISBN: 9004140530 9789004140530 9781429427128 1429427124 9781433707469 1433707462 1280859857 9781280859854 9786610859856 661085985X 904740615X 9789047406150 Year: 2004 Volume: 20 Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands Boston Brill

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The papers published here were presented at an international symposium held in 2002 at Heidelberg, at which international experts investigated the literary output at the end of the 14th century and at the beginning of the 15th of the first three universities founded within the medieval Holy Roman Empire north of the Alps: Prague, Vienna and Heidelberg. The articles provide insights into a great variety of academic texts till now rarely examined and the specific conditions of their production, and trace the interrelations between these universities which were narrowly interlinked by many itinerant teachers and scholars. The papers deal with the scholarly Latin texts, which often originated directly from teaching, as well as the vernacular texts stimulated or influenced by academic learning in the practice fields of preaching, religious doctrine, edification, pastoral theology, and general popularizing of scholarship.

Die Präger [i.e. Prager] Universität im Mittelalter
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ISSN: 09266070 ISBN: 1281457884 9786611457884 9047411498 9789047411499 9004154884 9789004154889 9781281457882 6611457887 Year: 2007 Volume: v. 28 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The present collection, divided into three thematic sections, includes twenty-one studies on the history of the University of Prague from its foundation in 1348 to the 16th century. The first section is devoted to the birth of the university, its first institutions, the growth of the earliest colleges and the victory of the Reformist party. The second part concentrates on the curriculum, examinations, graduations and annual disputations of the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Section three deals with university polemics about universalia realia, mainly in relation to the scholarly and literary activity of Jerome of Prague (+ 1416).


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From England to Bohemia
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ISBN: 9781107016798 9781139061438 9781107479906 9781139338707 1139338706 9781139336963 1139336967 1139061437 1107016797 9781139340281 1139334395 9781139334396 1107230535 9781107230538 1280394137 9781280394133 9786613572059 6613572055 1139337831 9781139337830 1139341863 9781139341868 1107479908 113934028X Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This is the first book-length study of the influential cultural and religious exchanges which took place between England and Bohemia following Richard II's marriage to Anne of Bohemia in 1382. The ensuing growth in communication between the two kingdoms initially enabled new ideas of religion to flourish in both countries but eventually led the English authorities to suppress heresy. This exciting project has been made possible by the discovery of new manuscripts after the opening up of Czech archives over the past twenty years. It is the only study to analyze the Lollard-Hussite exchange with an eye to the new opportunities for international travel and correspondence to which the Great Schism gave rise, and examines how the use of propaganda and The Council of Constance brought an end to this communication by securing the condemnation of heretics such as John Wyclif.


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Folia zoologica.
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ISSN: 15731189 Year: 1977 Publisher: Praha, Academia,


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Sbornik Jihoceskeho Muzea v Ceskych Budejovicich : Prirodni Vedy
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ISSN: 01398172 Publisher: Dukelska [République tchèque] Jihoceske Muzeum


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Biológia.
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ISSN: 13369563 00063088 Year: 1953 Publisher: Bratislava : Berlin : Slovenskej Akadémie Vied Versita co-published with Springer-Verlag Walter De Gruyter


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The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia
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ISBN: 303036383X 3030363821 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book explores the remarkable interconnections of the Czechoslovak environment and the work and legacy of the Vienna Circle on the philosophical, scientific and artistic level. The Czech lands and later Czechoslovakia were the living and working space for the predecessors and catalysts for Logical Empiricism, such as Bernard Bolzano, Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein, along with key figures in the Vienna Circle such as Philipp Frank and Rudolf Carnap. Moreover, Prague hosted important academic events in which Logical Empiricism was presented to the public, such as the September 1929 1st Conference on the Epistemology of the Exact Sciences, which launched the key manifesto, The Vienna Circle. The Scientific Conception of the World. In addition, this book investigates both the positive and negative receptions of Logical Empiricism within Czech and Slovak intellectual circles. The volume features a selection of contributions to the international conference, The Vienna Circle in Czechoslovakia, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in February 2015. These essays are supplemented by two texts of vivid personal memoirs by Nina Holton and Ladislav Tondl. The book is of interest to scholars and researchers interested in the history of philosophy and science in central Europe and the philosophy of science and the Logical Empiricism of the Vienna Circle.


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Osvobozené Československo očima britské diplomacie
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ISBN: 8024624044 9788024624044 9788024618494 8024618494 9788024618494 Year: 2010 Publisher: [Prague, Czech Republic]

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Analytická monografie rozebírá zprávy britských diplomatů z Prahy roku 1945, které vynikaly obdivuhodnou schopností na základě analýzy shromážděných informací postihnout podstatu československých poválečných problémů. Zprávy si nejvíce všímaly československého státoprávního uspořádání a politického systému, vztahu Československa k SSSR, USA, Velké Británii a dalším státům, postavení německé menšiny, vojenských záležitostí, rekonstrukce či složitého propletence vzájemných ekonomických, finančních a obchodních vztahů mezi Velkou Británií a ČSR. Stranou však nezůstával ani život a problémy běžného občana, což představuje dosud nevyužitý pramen k poznání každodennosti v bezprostředně poválečném období. Publikace vyvrací, na základě dlouholetého detailního výzkumu autorů v mnoha různých fondech v britském národním archivu v Londýně, přetrvávající názory, že Velká Británie se o středoevropské dění příliš nezajímala či že mu nerozuměla. Britská diplomacie si byla dobře vědoma reality poválečné situace ve střední Evropě a svého postavení v rámci protihitlerovské koalice a rozhodně nelze říci, že by Československo jako sovětský satelit předem odepsala. ...Základní přínos publikace spatřuji již v samotné příležitosti nahlédnout vnějšíma očima stav české společnosti bezprostředně po válce, na prahu složitého období rekonstrukce a současně v první etapě politického zápasu, jenž o necelé tři roky později vyústil v osudové komunistické vítězství. Zároveň kniha jednoznačně vyvrací v domácím prostředí zakořeněné mýty o domněle odsouhlaseném, "jaltském" začlenění Československa do sovětské sféry vlivu, podle nichž Západu údajně nikterak nezáleželo na dalším československém osudu ani vnitropolitickém směřování. Tyto ukřivděné legendy jsou v publikaci vyvráceny doslova ad fontes, na základě interní britské dokumentace. Ta totiž naopak zaznamenává dlouhou sérii návrhů a konkrétních opatření, jak limitovat československou závislost na SSSR a napomoci představitelům demokratických stran čelit komunistické ofenzivě. Z recenzního posudku Víta Smetany

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