Overview

This intellectual history of the dissident Hussite reform movement in early 15th century Bohemia explains the process of Hussite radicalization, which led to their overthrow of secular and religious structures in the so-called ""first European revolution"". It does this by discovering the political relevance of diverse heterodox leaders and the discourses they adapted into mobilizing calls to conflict. As such, the work represents a reimagining of the Hussite revolution which emphasizes the symbolic worldview of its agents. This includes an appreciation of the Hussite debt to unexpected traditions of thought, and of the movement's participation in innovative visions of theo-political order.

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Author:   Martin Pjecha
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   246
Weight:   0.613kg
ISBN:  

9789004700536

ISBN 10:   9004700536
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   29 August 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction  1 Monograph Structure 1 Veritas, Caritas, and Reform  1 Historical Background until 1412  2 Intellectual Precursors and the Christian Platonist Tradition  3 The Hussites  4 Truth and Being  5 Psychology and Ecclesiology  6 Reform Methodology 2 Order, Peace, and the Antichrist  1 Historical Background: the Indulgence Controversy until Hus’s Execution  2 Visions of Order and Peace  3 Visions of Identity and Disruption 3 The Lay Chalice  1 Historical Background: from Utraquism to the Dawn of Tábor  2 The Utraquist Controversy: Foundations and Significance  3 Theology and Anthropology  4 Sacred Politics and Voluntarism  5 Ethical Agency 4 Revolt and Revolution  1 Historical Background: 1419–1420  2 Jan Želivský  3 Reformist Tábor  4 Chiliastic Tábor  5 Revolutionary Tábor Conclusions Bibliography Index

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"""[...] a truly distinguished series, the list of whose authors reads like a Who's Who of early modern historians."" William V. Hudon, in: The American Historical Review ""There were some who worried that Brill’s Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions might languish once separated from the guiding hand of Heiko Oberman. One need not worry."" David M. Whitford, in: Renaissance Quarterly"

Author Information

Martin Pjecha, Ph.D. (2022), Central European University, is a researcher and project-member at the Centre for Medieval Studies (Prague). He has published on Hussites radicalism, apocalypticism, and heterodox thought, including the co-edited Radical Religious Communities around the Close of the Middle Ages (Brill, forthcoming).

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