The paper presents the typical course of education, life journeys, and careers of professors of theology and law based on selected Viten (Vitae, biographies) from an early-modern collection of ...biographies by the Heidelberg historian Melchior Adam (1575–1622), who was originally from Silesia. First and foremost, it attempts to determine the degree to which professors were involved in non-university structures: theologians as priests, superintendents, etc., jurists as princes or town councillors, etc. It also examines the role played by graduation from and study at foreign schools in their future university and other careers.
The study presents the first two generations of professors at the University of Kraków in the fifteenth century. The first generation was made up of Polish, Czech, and German professors from the ...University of Prague, who in the year 1400 organized the university in Kraków. The second generation of professors in Kraków formed thanks to years of work on the part of masters who came to Kraków from Prague and other European universities. Both generations had a decisive influence on the development of the University of Kraków in the fifteenth century.
The paper focuses on a group of masters loyal to the Catholic administrator Hilarius Litoměřický who attempted to take control of the university at the end of the 1450s. Their gradual removal from ...the ranks of members of the University of Prague concluded the search for the schoolʼs profile. By 1462, it had become a well-defined Utraquist institution linked to the Church through communion under both kinds. The episode is an example of the politization of the activities of masters, particularly in academic self-administration.
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”.
This article presents the online database being created as part of the project Universitas Magistrorum: Professors of the Utraquist University of Prague (1458–1622). It briefly outlines general ...development in the area of digital humanities and sets it in the context of other prosopographical projects.
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.
„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.
This study focuses on university professors as owners and inscribers in the autograph culture of the early modern period. It contains an analysis of autograph books (friendship books, alba amicorum) ...of professors as well as of professor inscriptions in student autograph books. It takes note of the form of the inscriptions, accompanying illustrations, and the role of these dedications in the communication practices within the academic setting. The study depicts autograph books as a distinctive form of social self-presentation closely bound to the academic and scholarly environment.
Latin poets of the early modern period were fond of using prosaic models as themes in their work. The paper examines a unique group of poetic compositions inspired by manuscripts of medieval sermons ...of professors at the university in Prague. Inspiration was found in them also by Jan Campanus, a professor of history and poetry who encouraged his students to explore historical themes and engage in the study of sources and thus had a significant influence on their work.
