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Regional History Journals in European Context
Pánek, Jaroslav
A study on the developement and contemporary situation of publication activities in regional history in the Czech Republic and other European countries, especially on the assessment of the regional history journals in the European Reference Index of the Humanities by the European Science Foundation.
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Šimák´s historical homeland study and regional history collections of writings (the theory and practice)
Kábová, Hana
The contribution describes effort and activities of the first Professor of historical homeland study Josef Vítězslav Šimák (1870-1941), which led to establishing regional history periodicals, both in theory and metodology or in practice (particular periodicals of Šimák´s home region such as Od Ještěda k Troskám, Boleslavan, Sborník okresu železnobrodského, Lomnicko nad Popelkou, Bezděz, Krkonoše). The contribution covers the period since the 1890s until Šimák´s death.
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Regional natural history periodicals and their importance for the knowledge of the Czech epigraphic fund
Roháček, Jiří
Regional history periodicals are of a great importance for epigraphic studies of larger than regional scale. This is due to the specific character of epigraphic sources and their connection to works of art and artefacts of material culture. The fact is of a great interpretation value, on the other hand it predeterminates extremely difficult physical availability. Physical availability along with difficult restitution of inscriptions, which are often damaged, rarely enables fieldwork of a larger range and demands to work with various types of secondary approach to inscriptions. Regional periodicals represent a source of a great importance, a lot of material can be found in essays, which are primarily of a „non-epigraphic“ character. After being made properly accessible in bibliographical and other aspects, these essays can contribute with valuable tiles into the Mosaic of secondary sources for epigraphic studies of a larger than regional scale. These essays would be even more fruitful if at least basic editorial principles were followed.
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Český Brod and Kostelec nad Černými Lesy Regions in works of ethno botanist and pedagogue Josef Oldřich - Oldra Novotný
Suchomelová, Marcela
Josef Oldřich – Oldra Novotný (1885–1964),nearly forgotten pedagogue and ethno botanist, who worked in Český Brod and Kostelec nad Černými Lesy Regions Českobrodsko a Černokostelecko). Novotný edited a journal – or rather a sort of regional history periodical handbook – of the same title (i. e. “Českobrodsko a Černokostelecko”). The journal was issued only from 1919–1920, nevertheless it was one of the pioneering regional periodicals focused on contemporary regional and cultural history materials, including short ethnographic essays with educational meaning. All the ten issues of the first and the only volume concentrate on contemporary historical, ethnographic, and linguistic specialist research, and they are filled with the work of local teachers and J.O. Novotný himself. Josef O. Novotný personality also surprises through the recently rediscovered torso of his research legacy. There have been found his manuscripts from floristic and ethno botanical fields. J.O. Novotný worked nearly all his life on “Slovník lidových jmen rostlin”, (Lexicon of folk names of plants). Both editorial conception and manuscript corpus of the lexicon are worth remembering. The lexicon covers 7200 folders of typescript, abounds in botanical material and valuable observations for ethno botanical and linguistic studies, along with practical usage of plants, especially in traditional medicine.
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