Politique, histoire et histoire scolaire

L’effondrement du communisme en 1989 fut suivi par la partition de la République tchécoslovaque dès 1993. Sortir de la lutte des classes, c’est rechercher une cohérence nationale en réinterprétant un passé complexe. L’analyse du phénomène de « renaissance nationale » et la place des minorités restent deux questions difficiles à résoudre. Mais l’activité historienne intense, concrétisée par la publication de nombreux manuels scolaires, et le contrôle libéral des autorités réservent une grande capacité d’initiative aux enseignants

Hájek's depiction of the Hussite era

The detailed analysis of parts in which Václav Hájek of Libočany in his Czech Chronicle (1541) described the Hussite era shows that the Catholic author did not have the strict antihussite attitude. He fully respected the political and religious organization of the Czech state formed in the years of Hussite revolution

Hussite movement and Hussites in eastern Bohemia (Outlines of the problem)

East Bohemia significantly enrolled in the history of the Hussite movement at the beginning of the movement, where many of the local nobility protested against the burning of Jan Hus. In 1420, in eastern Bohemia set up a separate Hussite Union (Orebites, then Orphans´ Union). A historic role played East Bohemian Hussites in promoting of results of Hussite movement in the period after 1437. Eastern Bohemia remained the support of Utraquism until the Thirty Years War

The Prague university from its foundation until the Hussitism (the dream of Wenceslaus II which came true)

This summary follows the development of the Prague university from its founding in 1348, through the split into the university consisting of three faculties and the law university, up to the shock caused by Hussitism

Reimagining Athletic Nudity: The Sexualization of Sport as a Sign of a ‘Porno-ization’ of Culture

This paper traces some historical and contemporary instances in which sporting and other bodies naked physiques have been utilized to affect religious, social, ideological, or political agendas. We argue inherent aesthetic values of performative flesh have been lost (or minimized) in recent times which have, intentionally or otherwise, degraded, and objectified the naked body. To satisfy society’s insatiable consumer needs and desires, bodies, especially sporting bodies, have been sexualized to the extreme. This overt sexualization is symptomatic of a wider porno-ization of Western (North American and European) culture and cultural products. Porno-ization (characterized by exploitative modes of production for pecuniary gain) has limited our contemporary readings, and respect for, the body and its educational, transformative, artistic, and emancipatory potential. Tentative though our theorization may be, we call readers to appreciate athletic nudity anew; to reimagine the eroticism of sporting bodies in cultural and aesthetic terms, akin to artistic appreciation, rather, than as provocative objects of sports’ capitalistic desires