The study presents the emerging discourse among Czech national economists and business elites during the First World War on the economy of the future independent Czech/Czechoslovak state. The preparation for economic disengagement from Vienna and Budapest acquired institutional form, when the top national Czech business associations were formed; press form, namely reflections on the state of the economy and future economic policy in the pages of the daily newspapers and magazines; and, above all, the form of an explicit transition-transformation economic programme/ project. In addition to the programme itself, the focus of the research is on its creators as a specific, exclusive group of people with unusually high economic, social and cultural capital. The collective biogram shows a very close link to the business environment, especially to the banking sector.
This article examines how artificial intelligence, particularly large language models, can be integrated into historical research, teaching and public history in Slovakia without undermining evidentiary rigour. It highlights opportunities that build on existing digital infrastructures, including rapid localisation and translation of sources, prototyping of historical narratives, automated detection of discursive shifts in large twentieth-century corpora and conversational interfaces to digitised collections. It also analyses key risks, among them fabrication, opacity, loss of provenance, ideological bias, model-collapse effects and the erosion of core research skills. These risks are illustrated through classroom examples demonstrating how small changes in prompt framing can substantially alter causal interpretation in Slovak twentieth-century history. Drawing on recent work on AI and memory and on emerging technical and editorial frameworks such as FAIR data principles, Content Credentials/C2PA and datasheets for datasets, the article proposes a minimal and enforceable set of documentation and transparency guidelines for Slovak historians, journals and memory institutions. It argues that AI should serve as a heuristic multiplier rather than an evidentiary authority and offers a pragmatic roadmap for critical AI literacy and reproducible workflows in Slovak historiography.
The study focuses on a specific group of secular and ecclesiastical dignitaries whom the monarch referred to as fideles nostri and rewarded for their demonstrated-mostly military-services in the 1230s-1260s. I focus on how the loyalty (fidelitas) of King B & eacute;la IV's supporters was represented, particularly in royal donation charters, which include arengae and narrationes that are the main sources of information on this topic. In these charters, the term fidelitas plays a central role, demonstrating the mutual relationship between the monarch and other actors of the time. Loyalty to the king was primarily demonstrated through military service and heroism in battle, but loyalty shown through diplomatic or judicial activities, or the settlement of territories, was also rewarded. Descriptions of the deeds of the king's supporters reflect contemporary ideals of chivalric culture, especially emphasizing loyalty and bravery. Through proven loyalty, an image of the ideal or exemplary faithful servant of the king was constructed. The above mentioned examples show the close link between loyalty and disloyalty, a loyal nobleman expressed his fidelitas by, for example, fighting against or judging those who had "fallen into disloyalty." During dynastic conflicts, it was not uncommon for a faithful servant of B & eacute;la IV to be seen as the arch enemy or traitor to the younger king, Stephen. Demonstrated loyalty to the king and the virtues of the nobles served as justification for acquiring property or holding various positions at court or in the administration of the kingdom.
