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Theo-politics of the Hussite Movement
From Reform to Revolution
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 246
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This intellectual history of the dissident Hussite reform movement in early fifteenth-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 so by uncovering the political relevance of diverse heterodox leaders and the discourses they adapted for 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 the theo-political order.
Martin Pjecha, Ph.D. (2022, Central European University) is a researcher and project member at the Centre for Medieval Studies in 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).
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
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
Medievalists, church historians. Keywords: heresy/heterodoxy, apocalypticism, medieval, Bohemia/Czech, Taborites, Jan/John Hus/Huss, religious warfare/violence, John Wyclif/Wycliffe, Matthias of Janov/Matěj z Janova, Church reform, Antichrist, Platonism, eschatology, mysticism, intellectual history.