19-09-2019, 05:56 AM
(18-09-2019, 11:09 PM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[...] but I get the sense from other people's stories that Italian government and religious authorities put up a lot of barriers to amateurs wanting to access ancient works of art and literature, to deter antiquities trafficking and historical revisionism / tampering. Does the same hold true in Czechia, for the most part, for those who've tried to do fieldwork there?
If you mean at the present time, I can only bring the good news that it is quite the opposite. Both in Italy and in the Czech republic you will find a lot of help and collaboration from all types of institutes, including libraries and archives.
When there are limitations, these will usually apply to amateurs and professionals alike. In such cases it will be easier for a professional with a demonstrable research task to get an exception, but that would usually apply everywhere.