IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 822: Wycliffe, Hus, and the Impact of Reform, IV: Battle of Words - Battle of Swords
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Lollard Society / Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Praha / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Wien |
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Organiser: | Fiona Somerset, Department of English, University of Connecticut |
Moderator/Chair: | Pavlína Rychterová, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Paper 822-a | Nobility and Religion in Hussite Bohemia (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 822-b | Sir Richard la Zouche: Another Lollard Knight? (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Social History |
Paper 822-c | The Taming of the Warrior?: Concepts of Violence in the Life of Bohemian Nobility in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Social History |
Abstract | The Wycliffite and Hussite projects of Church reform represent the most thorough attempts in late-medieval Europe to reshape religious and political ideologies and practices. In both cases, an academic controversy was immediately followed by a long-lasting ecclesiastical-political conflict. Despite the achievements of research into the Bohemian reception of Wycliffe's writings, new comparative approaches need to be adopted in order to better understand the preconditions, realities and developments in England and Bohemia, as well as the Hussites' bold experiment aimed at implementing some of the most radical Wycliffite ideas. The set of four sessions brings together specialists from Wycliffite and Hussite studies who will discuss their research into these late-medieval religious and political reform programs. In this session, the focus will be on the reaction of power centers to reform ideas and on the formation of Wycliffite and Hussite movements. |