Preachers, Partisans, and Rebellious Religion : : Vernacular Writing and the Hussite Movement / / Marcela K. Perett.

In early fifteenth-century Prague, disagreements about religion came to be shouted in the streets and taught to the laity in the vernacular, giving rise to a new kind of public engagement that would persist into the early modern era and beyond. The reforming followers of Jan Hus brought theological...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. From Golden Boy to Rabble- Rouser: Jan Hus and His Preaching Career
  • Chapter 2. Creating a Faction: Jan Hus and the Importance of Moral Victory
  • Chapter 3. Battle for the Minds: Vernacular Propaganda For and Against Hussite Reform
  • Chapter 4. The Parting of the Ways: Prague and Tábor
  • Chapter 5. Combining Education with Polemic: The Price of Theology in the Vernacular
  • Chapter 6. The Dangers of Popularizing Wyclif: The Eucharistic Debates That Fragmented Bohemia
  • Chapter 7. Writing History to Shape the Future: Historia Hussitica by Lawrence of Březová and Historia Bohemica by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments