IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1119: Climate of Change: The Reform Movement in Late Medieval Bohemia
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Czech Science Foundation 'Observance Reconsidered: Uses and Abuses of the Reform (Individuals, Institutions, Society)' / Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |
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| Organiser: | Petra Mutlová, Department of Classical Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Moderator/Chair: | Petra Mutlová, Department of Classical Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Paper 1119-a | Reform Social Climate and the Religious Life of Urban Communities in East Central Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1119-b | Synodal Sermons in Late Medieval Bohemia as a Reflection of Societal Changes (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | Central Europe, and especially Bohemia, in the 15th century can be characterized as a period of reform responding to a critical situation in the Church and society at large. A central figure of the spread of reform was John of Capistrano, an ardent Franciscan preacher, whose grand tour through Central Europe in the mid-15th century initiated a rapid advance of the Observant Franciscan order. However, it was not only social climate that was changing: actual climatic changes in the period, which coincided with the first wave of the Little Ice Age, also influenced social realities. The papers in this session will focus on three aspects of change in 15th-century Central Europe: 1. The criticism of synodal preachers in Bohemia and the developments of their strategy and choice of topics; 2. The rapid development of urban friaries and the acceptance of the reform and religious cultures in an urban context, with special focus on selected towns from the Moravian-Hungarian-Austrian border region. |