Palček as a Reforming Hero and Reformed Saint: Towards a Bohemian Reformation Hagiography

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843844TE.25.013.21784" target="_blank" >10.4467/20843844TE.25.013.21784</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Palček as a Reforming Hero and Reformed Saint: Towards a Bohemian Reformation Hagiography

Original language description

Although the study of Christian hagiography still primarily targets ancient and medieval texts, the early modern hagiography has recently been established as a distinctive research topic. Its focus is not only on the transformations of the post-Tridentine hagiography of the Roman Catholic Church, which effectively appropriated the cult of the saints as its important identifier. In this respect, the early modern texts seem to have dissolved the conventional association of hagiography with Catholicism: the analyses of surviving early modern texts demonstrate that the Protestant churches-while still critical towards the cult of saints as they knew it from late medieval devotional practices-did not reject the concept of sanctity or hagiography as such. Martyrology in particular seems to have been very frequent in all early modern Christian denominations, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; indeed, research on Czech early modern hagiography of non-Catholic provenance has concentrated on texts about Jan Hus, or other Czech supporters of religious reforms who died violent deaths.However, literary works such as a series of twelve Czech short texts published anonymously at the early seventeenth century under the title &quot;Hystorye o bratru Janovi Palečkovi&quot; (The histories of Brother Jan Palček) show that the equation of early modern Czech Non-Catholic hagiography with martyrology is unjustified. Indeed, the series employs many textual practices and topoi of (late) medieval Christian hagiography, and although its main character is not called a saint, it still bears distinctive features of the concept of Christian sanctity. The article aims to argue that the series can be interpreted as an example of non-martyrological hagiography of a Protestant Reformation type.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Terminus

ISSN

2082-0984

e-ISSN

2084-3844

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

75

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

231-249

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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