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Ilness and Cure of the Body in the Light of The Wholy Montain Books of Miracles
Holubová, Markéta
This drala with faith in the posibility of beány able to cure ailments with the help of Our Lady in the background to the devotion of her romantic portrayals and all miracles in the Baroque period. The Marian pilgrimage site – i.e. Svatá Hora u Příbrami, which this artikle is about, was a place where man could be relieved of his internal anxieties. Based on the detailed analysis 800 manuscripts and printed Svatá Hora almost 70 kinds of various sicknesses and forms of afflictions were discovered. Attention is also paid to the way of seeking secular and "holy" healing.
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From the life of the family from the Stěžery village, the Hradec Králové district, in the 2nd half of the 19th century
Valášková, Naďa
This paper deals with records by František Řehoř (1857 – 1899) from the Stěžery village, the Hradec Králové district, in the 2nd half of the 19th century. F. Řehoř was considered as a prominent expert at the Ukrainian folk culture in Galicia (nowadays in the West Ukraine). But his inheritance (deposited in the Literary Archives of the Monument of the Czech Literature) contains also a manuscript of the "Family Chronicle" with records of the life of ancestors in the country farm estate in the 18th-19th century. Here are briefly presented records concerning travelling in the 1860’s. In the first case, there been described unpleasant experiences from the forced escape of family from the village as a consequence of the Prussian-Austrian war. The second case described an interesting travelling to the relatives to celebrate traditional feast.
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Martin Ješuta (1783-1875) – the bible-reader of Bystřice u Benešova
Petráňová, Lydia
The chronicle work of Martin Ješuta (cca 600 pages) includes two commemorative books: Family Commemorative Book and Commemorative Book of the Town of Bystřice. Shoemaker, sacristan and member of the literary fraternity Ješuta started write in 1848. His chronicles represent a unique source for reconstruction of the everyday life of individuals, families and various social ranks from the farm labourers throught the peasants, cratftsmen and traders up to the local dignitaries of small rural town.
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