Theo-Politics of the Hussite Movement

From Reform to Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70053-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 246, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pjecha, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).