IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1215: The Power of Discourse: The Old and the New in the Hussite Reformation, I - The Narrow Way to Salvation - Sinners, Sacraments, and the End of Days
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, Prague |
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| Organiser: | Paweł Kras, Instytut Historii, John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Brenda M. Bolton, University of London |
| Paper 1215-a | Inquisition in Medieval Bohemia: Its National and International Contexts (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Paper 1215-b | Prophets, Martyrs, and Saints in Hussite Apocalyptical Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Theology |
| Paper 1215-c | Preaching and Penance under Dispute: The Hussite Debates at the Council of Basel and their Impact on Late Medieval Sacramentology (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Theology |
| Abstract | This session deals with the problem of the origins of the Hussite reformation - the current research stresses the importance of the Bohemian theologian Matthew of Janov. His work, and not John Wycliffe's have had the greatest impact on the leading figure of the Hussite Reformation after the death of Jan Hus, Jakoubek of Stribro, the real architect of the Utraquist confession. The papers in this session describe how the most important theological concepts of the reform took shape in 1380s and 1390s and discuss the reaction of the Catholic orthodoxy: the first paper deals with the basics of Hussite apocalyptic thinking, the second compares the meanings about heresy and inquisition in central and western Europe on the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. The third paper analyses the teachings on sacraments in the Church's controversy with the Hussites, anticipating thus the theme of the Session 2. |