IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1315: The Power of Discourse: The Old and the New in the Hussite Reformation, II - Negotiating with Heretics about Heresy - Hussite Bohemia and the Limits of Tolerance
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, Prague |
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| Organiser: | Pavel Soukup, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Praha |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne Hudson, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1315-a | Richard Rolle's Readers in Bohemia (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
| Paper 1315-b | Defining Heterodoxy in Hussite and Anti-Hussite Polemics (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 1315-c | 'Contra modernos haereticos': The Polemic against the Hussite Doctrine at the University of Kraków in the First Half of the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Abstract | Defining a group as heretical compelled the hereticating party to determine the kind of contact it would maintain with those it hereticated. Communication could take many forms, but while it lasted, definitions of heresy and orthodoxy were negotiable. Negotiation with the Hussites would become particularly urgent: revolution in Bohemia posed a serious threat to surrounding regions and to the unity of Latin Christendom. Panellists will address the issue of communication among opposing factions concerning heresy in Bohemia and the terms under which communication was tolerated. The papers will achieve this by analysing the circulation of devotional texts in 'orthodox' and 'heretic' communities and both Hussite and anti-Hussite polemical writings. |