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Heresy and Hussites in Late Medieval Europe
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The followers of the martyred Bohemian priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) formed one of the greatest challenges to the medieval Latin Church. Branded as heretics, outlawed, then forced to fight for their faith as well as their lives, the Hussites occupy one of the most colorful and challenging chapters of European religious history. The essays reprinted in this book (along with one here first published in English and additional notes) explore the essence of the early Hussite movement by focusing on the nature and development of heresy both as accusation and identity. Heresy and Hussites in Late Medieval Europe first examines the definition of heresy, and its comparative nature across Europe. It investigates the unique practices of popular religion in local communities, while examining theology and its unavoidable conflicts. The repressive policy of crusade and the growth of martyrdom with its inevitable contribution to the formation of Hussite history is explored. The social application of religious ideas, its revolutionary outcomes, along with the intentional use of art in pedagogy and propaganda, situates the Czech heretics in the fifteenth century. An examination of leading personalities, together with the eventual and more formal church administration, rounds out the study of this remarkable era.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Map of Bohemia in the Hussite period, c. 1415â1500
- Abbreviations
- I Defending âheresyâ: a theoretical elaboration
- II Image breakers, image makers: the role of heresy in divided Christendom
- III The âlaw of Godâ: reform and religious practice in late medieval Bohemia
- IV The âcrownâ and the âred gownâ: Hussite popular religion
- V The night of Antichrist: popular culture, judgment and revolution in fifteenth-century Bohemia
- VI Heresy and the question of Hussites in the southern Netherlands (1411â1431)
- VII âMore glory than bloodâ: murder and martyrdom in the Hussite crusades
- VIII âNeither mine nor thineâ: communist experiments in Hussite Bohemia
- IX Ĺ˝elivskĂ˝â˛s head: memory and new martyrs among the Hussites
- X VĂĄclav the Anonymous and Jan PĹĂbram: textual laments on the fate of religion in Bohemia (1424â1429)
- XI Crime, punishment and pacifism in the thought of Bishop MikulĂĄĹĄ of PelhĹimov, 1420â1452
- XII âAn ass with a crownâ: heresy, nationalism and Emperor Sigismund
- XIII Ĺ˝iĹžkaâ˛s drum: the political uses of popular religion
- XIV Hussite infant communion
- XV Visual heresy and the communication of ideas in the Hussite reformation
- XVI Seduced by the theologians: Aeneas Sylvius and the Hussite heretics
- XVII Reform and the lower consistory in Prague, 1437â1497
- Addenda and corrigenda
- Index