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The objective of the paper is to point to some of the issues of the recent historiography on the orders of Templars, Johannites and Antonites in Slovakia as well as in the neighbouring central European countries. While quite many publications have been published recently, their quality varies considerably. The present paper tries to respond to some of the published data in order not to let them go unnoticed. Thus, the author wants to correct numerous errors that have appeared in the recent literature and put the record straight. That is because some of the works published today are strongly influenced by Romantic writings of the 19th century and have nothing to do with modern research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of associations in the era of dualism was growing rapidly in Košice as well as in Hungary. Statutes constitute an important primary source for the research of an association's life. The regulation by the Minister of Interior no. 1508/1875 ordered the associations to write their statutes and send them to the Minister of Interior for acceptance. Thus, the statutes were the first documents made by associations. Based on this primary source it is possible to study the creation, character and functioning of every association of that time. The aim of the paper is to analyze the statutes of associations in Košice in the era of dualism and to present possibilities of the research based on these statutes. By way of an example of the selected type of associations and the selected information excerpted from the statutes, the paper also presents the character of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The town of Ružomberok, thanks to a rapid development of industry at the end of 19th century and important figures of cultural and political events (Andrej Hlinka, Karol Sidor, Vavro Šrobár a.o.) is ranked in the group of the most important cities of Slovakia, within the inter-war period. Education has not been left aside which, by means of the clerics and their grammar school, was famous beyond the borders of the kingdom. Today, hardly anyone knows that in lower Liptov, at the beginning of the last century, there were other, less important schools, mostly lower type (elementary schools). The ambition of this study is, therefore, to overcome this negative fact and enrich the history of church education with interesting knowledge acquired by regional research. The introductory part, the aim of which is to inform percipients in the broader historical context of the socio-political situation and the school system in the newly established Republic, then in the paper to turn the attention of the reader to a micro-history, where the status of Catholic schools in Ružomberok, within the period under review, is analysed. The benefits of the work in this case are the new findings about the activities of the School Sisters of St. Francis O. S. F. in Ružomberok, as well as the establishment of the Institute for Education of Kindergarten Teachers, which has so far remained on the periphery of interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]