Testamenty urozených žen doby baroka. Několik poznámek k tématu by Kristina Swiderová

“… The article is based on set of accounts left by noblewomen of the Bohemian Kingdom in the period of 1650–1753. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis confronted with prescriptive document ́s point of view, it tries to find out the meaning of testament in noblewomen’s lives. …”
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Cultural heritage and flexibilization of touristic production in the eastern Brazilian Amazon by Maria Augusta Freitas Costa Canal, Elcivânia de Oliveira Barreto, Milene de Cássia Santos de Castro

“…This framework fuses social entrepreneurship with “neo-bohemian” local creative aspects and emphasizes “institutional commodification” via public-private partnerships. …”
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Le promeneur londonien au xixe siècle : une excursion dans l’obscur by Max Duperray

“…From Charles Lamb and De Quincey to Arthur Machen and even (a little later) Virginia Woolf, among others, the figure of the invisible bohemian recalls Baudelaire’s flâneur and the fictional character writing fiction. …”
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Hofmusici a lokajové. K postavení hudebníka na šlechtickém dvoře v Čechách první poloviny 18. století by Václav Kapsa

“… The starting point of the study is the division of private Kapellen maintained by Bohemian aristocracy into those consisting of servants (‘servant orchestras’) as opposed to ensembles featuring professional musicians (‘independent orchestras’) introduced by Helfert in his book on music at the court of Count Questenberg in Jaroměřice. …”
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Anchor test and long-term monitoring of grouted anchors instrumented with Fiber Bragg Grating sensing technology by Daniela Runcziková, Jan Záleský, Marek Záleský, Jakub Koller, Ladislav Šašek

“…This article deals with anchor tests instrumented with FBG deformation gauges of the root and the tendon of the pre-stressed strand anchor in a test field in the Central Bohemian Region. First, the anchor with three optic cables with FBG sensors for measurement of axial deformation was subjected to six loading stages of the anchor test. …”
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Jáchymovský mincmistr Mikuláš (Klaus) Kraus a jeho působení v obchodě s českým stříbrem v letech 1530-1535 by Petr Vorel

“…The law-suit was solved by the Kammergericht of the Bohemian kingdom and this court advanced this case to the king´s own resolution in 1535. …”
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(Neither) Expatriates (n)or Immigrants? The American Colony in Paris, 1880-1940 by Nancy L. Green

“…We can ask an Albert Hirschman question: to what extent did the businessmen have their own particular brand of “exit,” expressed through a distinctive “voice” (such as the bulletins of the American Chamber of Commerce) and reflecting “loyalty” rather than its opposite (Hirschman, 1970)? Far from the Bohemians of the Left Bank, the Right Bank Americans in Paris do not quite fit the usual history of immigration, but they show that specific forms of mobility and globalization existed well before the late 20th century.…”
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High trophic similarity between non-native common carp and gibel carp in Turkish freshwaters: Implications for management by Sadi Aksu, Özgür Emiroğlu, Paride Balzani, J. Robert Britton, Esengül Köse, Irmak Kurtul, Sercan Başkurt, Oğuzcan Mol, Emre Çınar, Phillip J. Haubrock, Pinar Oztopcu-Vatan, Ali Serhan Tarkan

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La Jolie Fille de Perth de Bizet  ou comment trahir et honorer Walter Scott by Gilles Couderc

“…Some characters remotely linked to Scott in a libretto that mostly abides by the rules of French opera or opéra-comique of the time and recycles the dramatic ingredients favoured by Saint-Georges, a purveyor of libretti for opera or the ballet second only to Scribe, who engendered such international successes as Flotow’s Martha and Balfe’s Bohemian Girl, whose gipsy, long before his Carmen, haunts Bizet’s “Scottish” opera. …”
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National Rivalry among Hospitallers? by Karl Borchardt

“…The paper edits and discusses a document from 1392 where the prioral chapter deals with a quarrel between Hospitallers in Austria and Styria; their fellow-Hospitallers from the lands of the Bohemian crown (Bohemia proper, Moravia, Silesia) carefully avoided to be offend Duke Albert III of Austria. …”
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Snahy šlechty českého severovýchodu o zmírnění následků pobělohorských konfiskací by Ondřej Tikovský

“… This study analyses the situation of several selected noble families from within the Hradec Králové Province, the members of which were punished by the property sanctions after the uprising of Bohemian estates in the 17th century. The research documented general characteristic features accompanying the restitutional efforts of the fined and punished nobles as well as of the persons related to them. …”
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Evaluation of the Contribution of Deposited Precipitation by Jaroslav Fišák, Miroslav Tesař

“…Present paper summarizes the results of measurements of deposited and falling precipitation in three localities: Suchdol, Prague (capital of the Czech Republic), Poledník (Bohemian Forest), and Smĕdava (the Jizerské hory Mts.). …”
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Effect of Boiling on Colour, Contents of Betalains and Total Phenolics and on Antioxidant Activity of Colourful Powder Derived from Six Different Beetroot (Beta vulgaris L. var. co... by Jan Bárta, Veronika Bártová, Tereza Šindelková, Markéta Jarošová, Zuzana Linhartová, Jan Mráz, Jan Bedrníček, Pavel Smetana, Eva Samková, Ivana Laknerová

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Music of Festive Days in 18th Century Český Krumlov. Depiction of Festivities in an 18th Century Monastic Chronicle by Markéta Králová

“…The chronicle entries illuminate in detail the course and form of extraordinary days in this renowned South Bohemian town, including the festive events connected with the prominent noble family of Schwarzenbergs. …”
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Parodies de dandies : travestissement et transgression des genres au music-hall by Catherine Rovera

“…This paper will focus on those protean artists known as male impersonators, as they depart in many respects from their male predecessors, the lions comiques, who used to mock London’s bohemian upper classes in a crude yet gentle way. Male impersonators (Nellie Power, Vesta Tilley, Ella Shields...) portray dandy characters in a more subtle and ambivalent manner. …”
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Řeholní kongregace v Čechách na přelomu 19. a 20. století v kontextu proměn náboženského milieu by Miroslav Novotný

“…It is also thanks to his commitment and work that the status of Catholicism in the whole region significantly improved and that in the second half of the 19th and first half of 20th century, the South Bohemian diocese became the place of foundation or activity of quite a number of regular and lay religious communities. …”
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Chrudimský Kristus a zázračné souřadnice jeho barokní legendy by Pavel Panoch

“…Early Modern Ages created several opposite theories on its historical origin – the scholars looked for its provenance in the Biblical Era, within the artistic collections of the emperors and Bohemian kings Charles IV. and Rudolf II., or they made a groundless direct connection between the oil-painting and the works of German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder. …”
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Interconnection between house and fenced area by Petra Schindlerová, Jana Klementová, Miroslav Popelka, Miroslava Šmolíková

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Jan Václav Michna z Vacínova a emblematická výzdoba kostela sv. Jakuba Většího v Kratonohách by Pavel Panoch

“…The decoration programme in Kratonohy doesn´t link to any of the elder Bohemian emblematic cycles and thus it is an iconographic curiosity here. …”
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Centra, zázemí a periferie hospodářského života raně novověké společnosti v zemích České koruny. O smyslu hospodářských dějin raného novověku by Václav Ledvinka

“…The second probe shows the possibilities and benefits of analysing data from contemporary tax records and lists of serfdom duties and corvées for understanding the function and status of cities and towns in the South Bohemian domain of the lords of Hradec. It describes the structure of the urban network and the hierarchy of urban settlements in the 17th century, captures the original traces of war damage, and suggests the possibility of following the trends of early modern urbanisation in the territory of the former Bechyňsko region in a long wave from the end of the Thirty Years’ War to the beginning of industrialisation and the new “industrial” urbanisation in the 19th century. …”
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