The study focuses on questions relating to the deaths of professors of the Utraquist university in Prague from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century (cause of death, funerals, ...estates, forms and means of commemoration, etc.). It is based on sources of official provenance as well as on certain egodocuments and literary, iconographic, and material sources. Because from the Middle Ages they most commonly served as the final resting places of university masters, attention is also devoted to the Corpus Christi Chapel in New Town, Prague, and the Bethlehem Chapel in Old Town, Prague.
The study focuses on a subject that has, as yet, received little scholarly attention: the humanist reform attempts at the University of Vienna from the mid-1450s until the appointment of Conrad ...Celtis as professor in 1497. Unprinted files are available as source material from the faculty of arts, allowing for a re-evaluation of the supposed conflict between a seemingly conservative faculty of artists and ʻmodernʼ humanist poets as well as between representatives of an assumed Italian or German humanism.
The tradition of matriculation records at the University of Heidelberg dating back to the founding year 1386 is currently being digitized as part of a DFG project. At the end of the 19th century, ...these records were made accessible by an edition up to the year 1870. Together with a database structure developed at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the foundations have been laid for the creation of a database of the university members in Heidelberg for the period 1386 to 1920.
Brief notes on the relationship between tourism and Italian literature. Using literary sources, the essay covers three points in the relationship between Italians and holidays: the first is the ...transition from vacation to tourism; the second from summer vacation as a moment of rest (mainly in the countryside) to vacation as an opportunity for fun (mostly at the seaside). In addition to these two, we have a third point: in the second half of the Twentieth century, holidays become a mass phenomenon, no longer elitist as they had been until the first half of the same century. They become something possible for most Italians who, especially in August, leave the cities empty. This historical-sociological parable is revisited through literary testimonies that go back to the roots of the mother literature, the Latin one and then it resumes its path, interrupted in the High Middle Ages, around 1300 in conjunction with the first literary testimonies (the triad Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio). The vacation phenomenon, intended as staying for the summer months in a villa more or less outside the city walls, finds its maximum expression starting from the 16th century with the Renaissance villas of the aristocracy, until it meets the aspirations of the small nobility and of the upper middle class in the 18th and 19th centuries. Crucial testimony is Carlo Goldoni's “Vacation Trilogy”, a triptych of three comedies that actually constitute a single text portraying the vacation phenomenon as a status symbol far from the motivations of previous centuries (vacation as a moment of peace, ‘’otium’’, rest). During the Nineteenth century, holidays are associated with tourism (especially in the thermal baths and in the mountains), while from the Twentieth century, the favourite option is the seaside. However, another change will characterize the use of leisure in the Twentieth century: the birth of mass tourism. With brief literary notes, we try to explain how in Italy holidays have now turned into something with anxiety-inducing traits, especially among young people and not only, in an almost spasmodic search for fun (with Dionysian and Bacchic traits) at the expense of original motivations (rest, leisure, “otium”) in a relationship in which the “horror vacui” seems to have ousted the “horror pleni”.
„Kompas” operating in the years 1921-1939 was one of the most famous publishers offering religious literature addressed mainly to members of the Baptist Church. In addition to publications on ...religious topics, the offer also included numerous calendars, paper accessories, and publications commissioned by other social or economic entities. The Kompas publishing house benefited from the support of American members of the Baptist Church as well as local entrepreneurs associated with this denomination in Łódź. In connection with the economic crisis in 1929, the „Kompas” Society was dissolved and the associated printing house focused on performing commissioned work.
This article examines the question of the participation of professors from Poland in the academic life in Prague from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Because the article is a ...prosopographic study, the group of surveyed professors is presented in the context of their academic careers, territorial and social origins, motivation to take up an academic career in Prague, and life after their academic endeavours in Prague had come to an end.
The author of the paper attempts to capture the evolution of the libraries of individual university masters at the single-faculty post-Hussite university until its takeover by the Jesuit Academy at ...the beginning of the Thirty Yearsʼ War. He asserts that these libraries were frequently extensive in their scope and diversity of content; however, the material, to a large degree anonymous, is so fragmentary, and so little analytical work has yet been carried out to fully penetrate it, that a definitive conclusion cannot be drawn.
The study is based on the prosopography of 93 professors, who have taught at the Prague Utraquist University in the years 1526–1622. It examines the careers of 63 of them, who have left the ...university and settled down in royal cities. They usually served in the intellectual professions (scribes, chancellors) or took part in the municipal self-government (councillors in town councils).
Against the background of the reform councils of the 15th century, the role of professors from the University of Heidelberg as envoys and their relationship to the Hussite question will be examined. ...They also acted as anti-Hussite experts, authors of treatises, polemical writings and sermons. When inquisition trials took place in the area of influence of the Electoral Palatinate during the Hussite Wars, professors, council envoys and scholars were also involved, so that a core of anti-Hussite advisors around Elector Palatine Louis III becomes recognizable.
