Reception, Translation, and Manipulation: Latin Rewriting of Hussite Texts in 15th-Century Bohemia

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angličtina
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Reception, Translation, and Manipulation: Latin Rewriting of Hussite Texts in 15th-Century Bohemia
Original language description
Czech Sunday Postil is one of the most famous vernacular works of John Hus. He finished it in 1413, only one year before his departure to the Council of Constance, where he tried unsuccessfully to defend himself against the accusations of heresy. Some years after his death a translation of the homiletic collection was made, which is preserved today in the ms. Mk 91 in the Moravian Library in Brno, Czech Republic. The translation has attracted only a modest scientific attention and only a few of its sermons were studied and published. However, it is noteworthy for many reasons: From the linguistic point of view it features a macaronic Latin-Czech, almost word by word translation heavily dependent on the Czech syntactical constructions. It resembles quite well some reportationes or sermons based on preacher's drafts, albeit its different origin. On the semantic level the translator did some very substantial changes in the content, which mainly escaped the previous research. He not only o
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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