A Companion to the Hussites

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-39786-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 90, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

The Hussites, as the Bohemian reformists have come to be called, became one of the most vocal and influential reform movements of the late Middle Ages, with significance for the reformations of the sixteenth century and later. They represented an interchange between “town and gown” that was largely unprecedented in medieval Europe. Scholarship on the Hussites has a long and distinguished tradition, and current studies must continually contend with a historiography that is implicated in the nationalism, confessionalism, and politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume gives students and scholars a clear sense of the historiography and current trends in Hussite studies, as well as concise statements on major emphases in Hussite theology, ecclesiology, philosophy, and religious practice.

Contributors are: Eliška Batová, Pavlína Cermanová, Dušan Coufal, Phillip Haberkern, Ota Halama, David Holeton, Stephen Lahey, Jindrich Marek, Pavel Kolár, Olivier Marin, Petra Mutlová, Pavlína Rychterová, Pavel Soukup, Michael Van Dussen, and Blanka Zilynská.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dussen, Michael van

Soukup, Pavel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Conventions on the Use of Proper Names

English Equivalents of Czech Names

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Hussite Histories

Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup

Part 1: Influences

The Early Bohemian Reform

Olivier Marin

Wyclif in Bohemia

Stephen E. Lahey

Part 2: Major Figures

Major Hussite Theologians before the Compactata

Petra Mutlová

Major Figures of Later Hussitism (1437–1471)

Jindrich Marek

Part 3: Religious Politics

The Apocalyptic Background of Hussite Radicalism

Pavlína Cermanová

The Utraquist Church after the Compactata

Blanka Zilynská

Part 4: Theology and Religious Practice

Key Issues in Hussite Theology

Dušan Coufal

Preaching, the Vernacular, and the Laity

Pavlína Rychterová

Liturgy, Sacramental Theology, and Music

David R. Holeton, Pavel Kolár and Eliška Batová

Part 5: Later Developments

The Unity of Brethren (1458–1496)

Ota Halama

The Bohemian Reformation and “The” Reformation: Hussites and Protestants in Early Modern Europe

Phillip Haberkern

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Van Dussen is Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at McGill University. He has published articles and volumes on late-medieval religious controversy and manuscript studies, including From England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2012).

Pavel Soukup is researcher at the Centre for Medieval Studies (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) in Prague. He has published on heresy, preaching and religious warfare in fifteenth-century Central Europe, including a monograph of Jan Hus (Stuttgart, 2014).