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Dec 12, 2001 · As Milos Fikejz, a historian from the National Film Archives says, today's Ponrepo cinema - located in the same building as the archives - is not the first movie theatre of this name in...
Jul 31, 2019 · The event, which has since become known as the First Defenestration of Prague, is often seen as the starting point of the Hussite Wars. Dr. Pavel Soukup, an expert on medieval history from the Czech Academy of Sciences, talks about the role of the defenestration and how it came to be.
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“Hus preached many things that were not so much in contrast with what the medieval Church and especially the reform-minded members of the church were saying themselves. It was a time of a Church crisis that almost everybody perceived and wanted to solve. Both Hus and his judges,who condemned this eventually had the same aim – to reform the Church. ...
“Some appeared at the sermon with weapons hidden under their clothes. There are also more hints that suggest it was prepared and pre-negotiated with members of the more radical Hussite wing in both the New and the Old Town of Prague. "One thing worth mentioning is that we don’t know exactly what Jan Želivský preached. We have written sermons, but t...
“It was an important part of a chain of events. Another very important factor, which isn’t connected to the defenestration, was the death of king Wenceslas IV. “The chronological coincidence is significant, because the heir to the throne was Sigismund, the brother of Wenceslas. He was the one blamed for the death of Jan Hus, because he was the secu...
In this piece, we’ll explore the city’s theatre scene to find out top 8 best movie theatres of the city and the history of movie theatres in Prague. Movie theaters in Prague offer a vast choice of cinematic experiences that suit the varying preferences of the city’s population, whether it’s an old-time Czech film, an international ...
3 minute read. The Impact of The Defenestration of Prague. Table of contents Show. On the 23rd of May, 1618, tensions flared up in Bohemia. Then, in what became known as the Defenestration of Prague, three Holy Catholic leaders were defenestrated by native Protestants.
Aug 23, 2018 · Jan Culik tells the story of the Prague Spring of 1968 and the invasion by Warsaw Pact countries, which took place 50 years ago this week. In his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1981), the Czech-French author Milan Kundera, originally a communist, describes the 1948 communist takeover and subsequent developments thus: “So the ...
Soon after its opening, productions in Czech were staged alongside those in German. The Estates Theatre is thus connected with the beginnings of Czech professional theatre. The first, sporadic Czech-language performances took place in 1785 (basically for commercial reasons: in order to increase sales by alluring the Czech-speaking public).
