Anne's Bohemia : Czech literature and society, 1310-1420 / Alfred Thomas ; foreword by David Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Alfred, 1958-

Series:

Medieval cultures ; v. 13.

Medieval cultures ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Czech literature--Social aspects.

Czech literature.

Czech literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

Literature and society--Czech Republic--History.

Literature and society.

Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Social conditions.

Bohemia (Czech Republic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 194 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Considers the development of Czech literature and society from the election of Count John of Luxembourg as king of Bohemia in 1310 to the year 1420, when the papacy declared a Catholic crusade against the Hussite reformers. This period is of particular relevance to the study of medieval England because of the marriage of Richard II to Anne of Bohemia, the figure around whom this book is focused.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; A Note on the Use of Czech Proper Names; Introduction: Anne's Bohemia: Toward a Comparative Study of Medieval Czech Literature; 1. Prologue: Literature in Old Church Slavonic, Latin, and Czech before 1310; 2. A Literature of Their Own: Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Bohemia; 3. The War of the Bohemian Maidens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Language in The Dalimil Chronicle; 4. Alien Bodies: Exclusion, Obscenity, and Social Control in The Ointment Seller; 5. A Bohemian Imitatio Christi: The Legend of Saint Procopius

6. The Radiant Rose: Female Sanctity and Dominican Piety in the Czech Life of Saint Catherine; 7. Bohemian Knights: Reflections of Social Reality in the Czech Epic and Verse Romances; 8. From Courtier to Rebel: Ideological Ambivalence in Smil Flaška's The New Council; 9. Writing and the Female Body: The Weaver, The Wycliffite Woman, and The Dispute between Prague and Kutná Hora; 10. Epilogue: Continuity and Change in Fifteenth-Century Czech Literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8867-2

OCLC:

239885850