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Bishop Andrew of Prague and Church in Medieval Czech Lands after the Fourth Lateran Council
No full textThe paper focuses on the personal actions of Bishop Andrew of Prague and the situation within the church in the Czech Lands after the Fourth Lateran Council. Andrew is a central representative in the process of immediate reception of the Fourth Lateran Council in the Czech Lands. Previous research has focused on the fundamental question of Andrews’s episcopate: his conflict with King Ottokar I regarding the church reforms introduced in the Czech Lands between 1216 and 1222. However, it is necessary to study the conflict in a long-term perspective (from the middle of the twelfth till the end of the thirteenth centu¬ries) and in the context of the promotion of the patronage law, the judicial exemption of clergy, and the enforcement of church control over tithes. The analysis shows that the church was a strongly decentralized institution controlled by local lay elites and damaged by nepotism. The private life of the clergy was corrupted by concubinage and, resulting from that, we can see attempts to create “clerical dynasties.” The route to a change only began with Bishop Andrew and the implementation of the change would not have been possible without the overall transformations of the political, economic, social and mental structures
Annika Elisabet Frieberg: Peace at All Costs. Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish-German Reconciliation.
Get PDFMaren Hachmeister: Selbstorganisation im Sozialismus. Das Rote Kreuz in Polen und der Tschechoslowakei 1945–1989.
Get PDFDer Sudetendeutsche Tag. Zur demonstrativen Festkultur von Heimatvertriebenen. Hrsg. von Elisabeth Fendl.
Get PDFSébastien Rossignol: Maiestas principum. Herzogsurkunden als Medien der Herrschaftsrepräsentation in Schlesien, Pommern und Pommerellen (1200-1325)
Get PDFZenonas Norkus: An Unproclaimed Empire. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empires
Get PDFEwa Palenga-Möllenbeck: Pendelmigration aus Oberschlesien. Lebensgeschichten in einer transnationalen Region Europas
Get PDFToo Small to Succeed? East Central Europe and the Historical Study of State Assessment
No full textIn the three essays of the newly established JECES “forum” in issue 2/2018, three col-leagues posit contemporary East Central Europe as “interwar period 2.0” and emphasize the significance of references to interwar history in contemporary memory politics. Their contributions point out the importance of these historical references for nation and state building after 1989/90 and for contemporary national identities. Building on this diagnosis, we would like to propose a methodological framework that looks at state-building in East Central Europe from a different perspective: by taking as an object of study the broad range of different—and often negative—views on the performance and capabilities of the states of East Central Europe from the nineteenth century until today. We argue that if we want to understand the various conflicts that affected—and continue to affect—the devel¬opment of states in this region, we need to understand how views on states shape activities towards states. If we achieve this, we can challenge deeply entrenched narratives—both popular and historiographical—that center around the idea of the inevitable collapse of states in East Central Europe, be they the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Habsburg and Romanov Empires, the interwar states or the states of the Warsaw Pact