Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-281) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- From Golden Boy to Rabble-Rouser : Jan Hus and His Preaching Career -- Creating a Faction : Jan Hus and the Importance of Moral Victory -- Battle for the Minds : Vernacular Propaganda For and Against Hussite Reform -- The Parting of the Ways : Prague and Tabor -- Combining Education with Polemic : The Price of Theology in the Vernacular -- The Dangers of Popularizing Wyclif : The Eucharistic Debates That Fragmented Bohemia -- Writing History to Shape the Future : Historia Hussitica by Lawrence of Brezova and Historia Bohemica by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini -- Conclusion.
Summary:
Marcela K. Perett examines the early phases of the so-called Hussite revolution and illustrates how vernacular discourse diverged from Latin debates on the same issues, often appealing to emotion rather than doctrinal positions.
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