Pursuing a new order. Volume II, Late Medieval vernacularization and the Bohemian reformation / edited by Pavlína Rychterová with the collaboration of Julian Ecker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rychterová, Pavlína, editor.

Ecker, Julian, contributor.

Series:

Medieval translator ; Volume 17.2.

The medieval translator = Traduire au Moyen Âge ; Volume 17.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Native language.

Christian literature--Translating--Europe, Central--History--To 1500.

Christian literature.

Christian literature--Translating--Europe, Central--History--16th century.

Native language and education.

Religion and literature--Europe, Central--History--To 1500.

Religion and literature.

Religion and literature--Europe, Central--History--16th century.

Literature and society--Europe, Central--History--To 1500.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--Europe, Central--History--16th century.

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

In the first two decades of the fifteenth century, the Hussite religious reform movement emerged in Bohemia; it used one of the realm's vernacular languages, Czech, both to disseminate its reform ideas, and to establish strong foundations for the reform. The vernacular became a significant strategy for identification, capable of binding together disconnected religious, ethnic, political and regional identities and generating a very potent aggregate of identifications. This volume considers material from the second half of the fourteenth century to the first half of the sixteenth, beginning with the so-called Hussite 'forerunners' and ending with the early German reformation. Individual essays discuss the various functions of the vernaculars in different text types, social situations and religious and political contexts. Together, they correct former assumptions about the topic and provide a basis for further study of Hussite vernacular theology and contribute to the transformation of scholarly narratives about the Hussite movement by including works of vernacular religious education among the most important source material. It offers a basis for the comparative research on the role of the vernaculars in late medieval European religious reform movements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-261) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-58183-8