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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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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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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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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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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Diplomacy and Recruitment of Mercenaries before the Battle of Žalgiris by Sven Ekdahl

“…The total number of those soldiers who then changed sides is not known, but a letter to the Grand Master tells at least about two big troops of Bohemian mercenaries. There might have been more. …”
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The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) by Cicero Moraes, Johari Yap Abdullah, Jiri Šindelář, Matěj Šindelář, Zuzana Thomová, Jakub Smrčka, Mauro Vaccarezza, Thiago Beaini, Francesco Maria Galassi

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Peníze v životě měšťanek předbělohorského období by Michaela Hrubá

“… This study focuses on the relationship women had with money in Bohemian towns before the Battle of White Mountain. …”
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Od porodní báby k porodní asistence by Milena Lenderová

“…On July 24th 1753 Maria Theresia published General health order for the Bohemian Kingdom that included the ordinance about the education and exams of midwives. …”
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Obraz křesťanského rytíře? Turcika ve šlechtických zbrojnicích raného novověku by Vítězslav Prchal

“…During the period of the most imminent Ottoman threat, i.e. in the 16th century, there was little or no Turkish weaponry added to the armories of Bohemian and Moravian nobility. Even the noblemen who actively participated in the wars against the Turks and who were deeply interested in the conflict had no such needs. …”
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Recent Advances in Biotechnological Methods for Wheat Gluten Immunotoxicity Abolishment – a Review by Vijole Bradauskiene, Lina Vaiciulyte-Funk, Bakht Ramin Shah, Darius Cernauskas, Mihaela Adriana Tita

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Poutníci a jejich peníze na cestě do Říma. Zamyšlení nad edicí Il Libro del pellegrino (Siena, 1382–1446) by Roman Zaoral

“…Seven pilgrims from the lands of the Bohemian Crown are mentioned in the entries from 1384–1433: two come from Bohemia, four from Moravia and one from Sile- sia. …”
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Dva příběhy z kriminálního podsvětí – padělatelé peněz na hradě Žampachu a přepadání Židů v roce 1542 by František Šebek

“…When interrogated on the rack, both confessed to having been involved in an attack on a convoy of Jews who, at the order of the Bohemian Landtag and King Ferdinand I, were being forced to leave the country. …”
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„O pecunia totius mali regina, fraudis et doli amica...“ Peníze v kultuře středověku by Tomáš Krejčík

“…Opinions evidently differed, and eventually diet decrees set the legal rate of interest. In 1484 the Bohemian diet (Landtag) set the maximum permissible interest rate at 10 percent, which was later reduced to 6 percent. …”
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