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Female education is a central topic of the historiographical debate and, particularly for the nineteenth century, it represents an original visual angle to follow the difficult and contrasted path of female emancipation, together with the emergence of the bourgeois class and with others structural changes that occurred in the Italian society in that historical phase. Over the time the affirmation of women's education has proceeded hand in hand with the development of the various societies and, in the western count...

The Sibyls and the art of prophecies have played an essential role in history, proving the inclination of the human spirit towards mysticism and the belief of all societies that at the base of any symbolic story is a real event. In the book of Enoch, which describes the making of the world according to the Jewish tradition, often cited by the authors of the New Testament and even by Jesus Christ, it speaks of angels who loved women and married them, making them known the derisory mysteries they knew, the small mys...

Landmark preservation is an endeavour to conserve cultural heritage objects for future generations. Necessarily, to protect cultural objects from peril the states impose restrictions on individual owners, namely regarding the way these are to be maintained and repaired. Such constraints are in public interest. However, public interest might be contradicting the individual interests of the owners, or at least it might bring extra costs to them. The contribution seeks to explain what legal provisions restrict owners...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the cultural heritage in order to promote and develop cultural tourism in Transylvania. An important region of Romania with a population of different ethnic groups (Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Slovaks, Armenians, Roma) had a continuous multicultural background and history. Known as Transilvania (in Romanian language), Transylvania (English), Erdely (Hungarian), Siebenburgen (German), this region holds a cultural heritage of inestimable value. Starting with fortified chur...

Despite the fraught relationship between abyssal psychology and cultural anthropology, both are applicable to human behavior. Anthropological analysis is directed from the exterior to the interior (i.e., the historical and cultural framework of the Renaissance), in contrast to the psychoanalytical perspective, which follows from the inside out the internal complexity of the human mind and its contribution to the cultural act. Anthropologically, the structural model of the psyche contains both the Freudian personal...

Museums are essential and important elements of saving information, local traditions and ways of lives of our ancestors. It is very important to preserve and protect museums themselves – their buildings and their collections against extraordinary events. Extraordinary events are, for purpose of this article, undesirable, unwanted and objectionable events, which require rescue system arrival. For example, natural disasters such as flood, windstorm, heavy snowfall etc., but also human caused disasters such as fire, ...

A new awareness around animal welfare has risen in the last decades. While in the past the animal used to be considered as res to exploit, nowadays many people see them as life companions. This new condition of the domestic animal originates, from a legal perspective, significant questions, and it can have non-negligible implications. Some scholars believe that in order to give more effective protection to animals a form of legal subjectivity has to be recognized. Such a relevant change needs anyway a deeper refle...

In the Renaissance era, the mastery of the organists is increasing, and they are the ambassadors of the increasingly pronounced orientation for instrumental music, supporting and consolidating the instrumentalism. Important organists, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, etc., offer and promote the solution of instrumental music in the European space. The new trend in the approach of instrumental music develops in parallel with the compositional professionalization. Among the Iberian organists, Pedro Alberto Vil...

Modern transport development with an increase in the number of vehicles and increase in fuel consumption as well as building roads is also causing unintended, adverse consequences. Transport adversely affects the air, water, soil, produces noise, creates waste, and harmfully affects wildlife. It is one of the largest polluters of the environment, so it is not surprising that the various stakeholders are interested in topics related to the environmental impact of transport, as well as in measures to reduce the nega...

According to the provisions of Romanian Law no. 85/2014 on insolvency proceedings, the purpose of this procedure is the payment of the debts of the insolvent debtor to its creditors [1]. It is therefore a collective procedure involving all the known creditors of the insolvent debtor. Consequently, such a procedure is carried out under the conditions governed by the above-mentioned law, a law which determines both the ways in which insolvency proceedings are initiated and the conditions under which such proceedings...

Axiological worldview reflects the most important part of the linguistic worldview, i.e. values and their antipodes – disvalues. Linguistic axiology sees fictional text as a source of information about the values of the language speakers. Comparative linguistic axiology is a promising trend of research, as it doesn’t only help to understand mentality of a language speaker but also reflects values of different communities. Studying language in an axiological aspect involves dyad method. Axiological dyad means unity...

While the issue of the regional boyar families during the 15th and early 16th century Wallachia has already been approached, the princely council may yet be seen as a mixed up puzzle. Even if we have most of the pieces, the general picture continues to escape us. In our paper we wish to present the first results of a wider research. The study of the princely council during the reign of Radu the Great (1496-1508), but also with references to the previous reign of Vlad the Monk (1482-1496), his father, and to the on...

The study of metaphor dates back to the times of Aristotle when metaphor has mainly been the focal study point of literary scholars. The publication of Lakoff and Johnson’s book Metaphors We Live By (1980) challenged the traditional view on metaphor and completely changed its status. The scholars developed the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) within which they argue, “metaphor is not just a matter of language, but of thought and reason” (Lakoff, 1993: 208). Moreover, in 1996 the study of metaphor within cognitive ...

The article deals with the current state of cooperation of a selected regional university with practice. The case study focuses on selected aspects of the trilateral relationship of students, the university, and companies. The article describes these relations, their formation, maintenance, and the roles of the individual participants of this triangle. Each member of this triangular relationship has their own visions, goals, and ideas about the form, manner, and intensity of cooperation. Each group of participants...

The present study focuses on the analysis of the types of intertextual techniques as used in printed advertisements. By means of the analytical, the discourse analytical and the descriptive research methods, the printed advertisements featuring the use of intertextuality have been selected and analysed as to the stylistic patterns used to create intertextuality. Intertextuality in printed advertisements is used to attract larger and / or specific audiences, to promote specific features or advantages of a particula...

The family associations have a particular importance in the comprehension of those new social subjectivities that are emerging within an increasingly decentralized social fabric from a point of view not only institutional and economic but also epistemic and civil. The research conducted so far leave the question open on the new ways of declination of family associations in a supranational horizon. The last few decades have encountered a process of change and differentiation that has affected on different spheres o...

Risk management in museums of the Czech Republic is inadequate and is not implemented in most museums. The presented issue of risk management in museums is only the first step towards introducing this knowledge into museums. The introduction of risk management as part of an integrated museum management system is very important, as emergencies and disasters are very democratic and unexpectedly reach out to all countries of the world and thus to a variety of institutions.

The ordinary way of financing government expenditures is through taxation. It is to stress the fact that the “basics” of the budget-making process consists of different types of expenditures and revenues from taxation. The best fiscal system for a country is the one that accomplishes fiscal goal of taxation, i.e. allows maximum revenue in the long run and at least administrative costs, but satisfying both efficiency and fairness. Environmental (green) should be consistent with these criteria. On one hand it is fai...

The fluctuation of aesthetic and artistic values in contemporary art implies the need to shape the aesthetic sensitivity of children from an early age. The authoress focused on the analysis of the way, how Slovak non-fiction for children with the theme of visual arts contributes to this task. The reason for choosing the topic was the fact about visualization of contemporary culture as well as the fact that illustration is an integral part of children’s books and a dominant component of picture books, which are bec...

The aim of the study is to analyse the most important Czech and Slovak feature television and film productions devoted to the life and work of Saints Cyril and Methodius from 1989 to the present. The study examines a change in perspective on this subject under the influence of changes in the social and political situation in the last three decades. During the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Saints Cyril and Methodius were on the margin of the interest of audiovisual media and they were perceived only as creato...

In our study we intend to analyze a part of a hagiographic source, The Life of Saint Niphon, written by Gavril the Protos in 1520 or 1521, and whose main characters are Radu the Great and Neagoe Basarab, two princes who ruled Wallachia at the end of 15th and early 16th centuries. The writing of Gavril the Protos narrates facts from the history of the country from 1504 until 1520, from a perspective that was favorable for prince Neagoe and the Craiovesti family, being an excellent example of using the past as a dev...

The literary portrayal of physical disability and death in the book by Czech author Daniel Rusar Spring of Cripples (Paskuda books, Bratislava, 2011) combines the means of narrative and non-narrative textual strategies and at the story level uses the contrast between emotional and deemotionalised attitudes of the protagonists to difficult life situations. The resulting textual incoherence creates a receptional situation that makes the reader’s cooperation in relation to the plot (his temporal and emotional immersi...

A comparative analysis of the European language policy of multilingualism and its analogue in the Russian Federation is carried out using a systematic approach to the study of the regulatory framework and practical implementation. As a result, common features and obvious differences inherent in these political entities were identified. In the modern world, in the context of globalization in all spheres of human activity, language policy in the state or supranational education is closely related to political and ec...

The study I conducted is an analysis of how the world of jewels and precious stones was perceived in the legal system during the different ages of the Ancient Roman era. My work is therefore a survey through which I explored the Ancient Roman jewelry world under the magnifying glass of property law: from the purchase of a property right to its limitations to its claim in court thus including also a brief history on how this right, including its multiple facets such as possession and the usucapion, has evolved duri...

Our study aim to identify the main sources of individualism, in Renaissance. We have established the conceptual relationships between greek Christian terms hypostas-enhypostas-parahypostas-polyhypostas and their metamorphosis under the influence of iudaic and gnostic philosophy. We are sketching the typology of the individual, reflected in symbolic portraiture of Adam. The individualism excludes any form of constraint and impose with necessity the idea of authenticity. We can observe the deconstruction of the esse...

The article reflects not just a personal concern of the author of the fate of social and philosophical thought in the era of the tectonic social shifts. This article discusses the problems of modern social and philosophical knowledge, as an appeal to the ontological foundations of sociology and the need for a new perspective on the social phenomena underlying the sociological theories (personality, society, social structure, etc.) taking in account intense social changes in the society of the XXI century. Sociolog...

In the paper we focus on three literary works for children and youth in Slovak translations. Cecil Bodker (Silas and the Black Mare, 1977; Slovak translation in 1979 [1]) represents Danish literature in this particular selection, Ivona Brezinova (Boy and the Dog, 2011; Slovak translation in 2011 [2]) represents Czech literature and Alan Marshall (I Can Jump Puddles, 1956; Slovak translation in 1978 [4]) is the sample of Australian literature. In addition to their artistic persuasion and belonging to the literature...

Migration is a process in which individuals and groups of people leave their homes for various reasons, which generally puts them to some disadvantages. The introduction of the study outlines the types of processing of the topic of external and internal migration in the original Slovak literature for children and youth from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. Migration as a disadvantageous social problem has gained new literary modifications especially after 2010. In three parts of the stud...

Under the influence of the Renaissance humanist trend, the Romanian musical space is experiencing a period of transformation and flourishing in a diverse and effervescent musical landscape. Being under the influence of Western music, the Romanian musical life assimilates and accepts the Renaissance elements in particular manifestation forms, specific to the historical-geographical space of the historical regions known as the Roman Countries (Principalities). For more than two centuries, numerous European countries...

Italy has more World Heritage Sites than any other country in the World. This extraordinary legacy needs to be maintained and preserved. The awareness of the importance of this legacy in Italy dates back to the Renaissance, or even earlier. A brief overview of the development of the legal acts aimed at preserving the cultural heritage in Italy in the last centuries shows an advanced approach to the issue. While the pre-unitarian legislation attests a careful awareness and adopts better legal tools in specific area...

The present case study deals with the trilateral relationship of the student, the university, and the employer. The article describes the current state of the cooperation of organizations with other partners in their contact sphere. The article also includes a basic classification of organizations, their goals, and their ideas concerning the cooperation of organizations in this trilateral relationship. Organizations can be broken down by jurisdiction into the public and the private sector, but also by industry, by...

Pawel Lukaszewski is the famous contemporary Polish composer, born in 1968 in Czestochowa, educated in Warsaw, the full professor of composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. His sacral and religious music gained the renown around the world. He was awarded with the ‘Orphee d’Or de l’Academie du Disque lyrique’ and nine ‘Fryderyk’ Awards in Poland. The prestigious vocal ensembles form Europe, Asia and America perform this music [1]. Lukaszewski's music of religious and sacred character operates largel...

This paper intends to critically reflect on the work of Austrian film director Willi Forst. Forst has been widely regarded as one of the great names in the history of German-speaking cinema, and in discussing Forst’s work, scholars have repeatedly pointed to the close connection between Forst’s films and Austria’s history and cultural tradition. In fact, Forst has been often labeled as the most Austrian film director, typically associating Forst’s work with the musical genre and the so-called Viennese Film, of whi...

The paper presents the results of a synchronic interdisciplinary study, which combines the approaches pertaining to sociolinguistics (gender studies), contrastive linguistics (the data analysed have been obtained from an unconstrained colour describing experiment, the participants of which are native speakers of Latvian and English), and cognitive linguistics. The aim of the study is to find out commonalities and differences in the way respondents – native speakers of Latvian and English – describe (rather than si...

The article explores the specifics of the work of the Siberian monumentalist V.A. Grigoriev, formed based on a complex interaction of various stylistic approaches. The main methods used are comparative-historical, structural-semantic, iconological and formal analysis. A special role was assigned to the practical definition of the inner design concealed by the artist in various symbolic images. The artist’s creative biography is closely connected with the city, distant from the general artistic environment that fol...

Pawel Lukaszewski (Polish composer born in 1968) [1] belongs to the leaders of contemporary choir and religious music. His music is widely known not only in Poland but also abroad. It gained special recognition in Britain, where prestigious vocal ensembles perform it regularly. This music can be treated as the area of a special sounds space evoking the mystical space. Mystical space is built here upon the modern musical language using the elements of musical drama. This music also refers to the forms known form th...

The paper aims to map the roots of the Unity of the Brethren, a religious movement whose origins date back to reform religious thinking represented, e.g. by John Wycliffe in England. The text mentions the key moments in the history of the Unity of the Brethren, notices the influences and contacts with Martin Luther in Germany and later Jean Calvin in Geneva and focuses on the development trends within the church itself. It especially points out the trend towards humanistic traditions of education, scholarship, lit...

The theme of the contribution is the eroticism in the novel The Camp of Fallen Women (1992, Tabor padlych zien) written by Slovak author Antor Balaz. The novel focuses on the period of the first years of building the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia and depicts the efforts of the incoming regime to re-educate prostitutes from the Vydrica (district of Bratislava) to conscious citizens in the area of forced labour camp Novaky. The labour camp in Novaky is known as the camp of three totalities in which Jews were in...

The issue of migration is a highly topical issue with major human implications, which generates many ethical and ecclesiastical issues related to human dignity, social justice, respect for human rights, solidarity in front of the risks of poverty, fragility, vulnerability, violence, injustice, exploitation and instrumentalization of the person, as well as the need to promote fair and consistent policies. According to the United Nations Reports, there are more than 250 million migrants worldwide, of which 25.4 mill...

This article looks at connections and parallels between Machiavelli’s depiction of a state leader in his work The Prince and Pratchett’s portrayal of a character ruling a city state in his fantasy novels. To accomplish this, we analyzed the character of Machiavelli and Pratchett’s leaders and looked for similarities and differences in their statecraft. This paper will also look for intertextual connections as well as other Renaissance influence that can be traced in the British fantasy. One of Terry Pratchett’s ch...

The present paper aims to investigate the ways in which the First World War was portrayed on the Italian screens during the Fascist regime. For this purpose, the paper will discuss a number of films about the war made in Italy between the 1920s and 1930s, ranging from Mario Volpe’s Il grido dell’aquila, produced in 1923 on the occasion of the first anniversary of Fascism’s seizure of power, in October 1922, to Marco Elter’s Le scarpe al sole, which is commonly regarded as one of the best Italian films on the Great...

The present paper is dedicated to investigation of a specific pattern of memory narrative – recollecting the past by the protagonist when visiting sites of personal memories – as a framework of reconstructing personal and collective identity in Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s novel “Cat’s Eye” (1988) and Latvian writer Anita Liepa’s memory narrative “Davana jeb Flensburgas noskanas” (A Present or Reflections of Flensburg, 2013). The methodology of the research draws on contemporary developments in the field of m...

The term globalization has defined the reflection on the contemporaneity of the last thirty years, according with two directives: in an interdisciplinary sense, starting from the economic sciences up to the social and political sciences; in a broader sense, in the public opinion, for the affinity between the meaning of expression and the concrete experience of individuals. The globalization represented one of those rare cases of correspondence between science and doxa, so much to seems extremely effective in defin...

The fantastic is the evolution and the reincarnation of the characters and heroes in Mythology and fairy tales, which are the evolution of real legends, and myths as well. The fantastic reveals the hesitation ‘Is it real or not?’ in receiver’s mind. The fantastic transgresses the border between the imagery and the reality, the true and false. The true and false, the imagery and the real are all intermingled. The receiver does not come up with the answer in the fantastic; on the contrary, it pushes the reader into ...

The work examines the story of the Lanerossi spinning plant in Foggia, a case of a company that experienced the negative effects of the extraordinary intervention policies for the South of Italy and which, together with other industrial companies, arose in the same years and under the same auspices. a few years after its establishment, all the criteria on the basis of which the firm operated their strategic choices and the ways in which it implemented them had been questioned. The changes in public opinion and in ...

In Romania, at this moment, the framework for the analysis on water protection is specifically debated, under the effervescent pressure of pollution caused by some natural phenomena, from the sources in industry, transport, agriculture, as well as the existence of certain forms of cross-border pollution that significantly disturbs the quality of the waters by forming and depositing new sediments harmful to the environment. In order to prevent and combat water pollution, Romania, as a member of the European Union, ...

The right to mobility is one of the most important rights that form the core of the European union's passenger rights policy. However, the exercise of this right is unfortunately not equally and available to all persons. The right to transportation is not always easy to exercise for people with disabilities and people with reduced mobility. Enabling free movement and accessibility of public transport is necessary for inclusion of persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility in everyday life. Availab...

The article is dedicated to a theoretical study of a person legal status, which is one of the most important entities and, at the same time, an object of environmental legal relations, which occupies a central place in the system of fundamental environmental values. The author considers the features of the of a person status in the theory of environmental law, the problems of legislative consolidation and implementation of its basic environmental rights and obligations. In particular, the scientific discussions on...

The paper studies the personality of Anna Lauermannova-Mikschova, founder of the first literary salon in the Czech lands, who was also actively involved in creating Czech feminist movement. She published her work under the name Felix Tever. Her Stastny u brehu Tibery (Happy at the Banks of the Tiber River) looks back at the happiest years of her life spent in Italy (Rome) where she found a shelter from her unlucky marriage and illness. The work of Anna Lauermannova-Mikschova (aka Felix Tever) features a wide varie...

The representation of various geographical places and topographical peculiarities is a typical feature of the travelogue genre. However, the reception of one and the same space could be depicted in travel literature in a variety of ways. Such a diversity of images appears due to existing stereotypes opposing each author’s reception and interpretation of the places visited. Besides, the same place can also acquire various representations in different centuries and due to different historical events and paradigms. T...