Historia Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohemicae between History, Identity and Martyrology

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F23%3A00578187" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/23:00578187 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.14315/arg-2023-1140111" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14315/arg-2023-1140111</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14315/arg-2023-1140111" target="_blank" >10.14315/arg-2023-1140111</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Historia Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohemicae between History, Identity and Martyrology

Original language description

This paper discusses, from three different angles, one of the historical works produced by Jan Amos Comenius and other authors from the Unity of Brethren, the Historia Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohemicae (1647, 1648). Firstly, it deals with it as a work of ecclesiastical history with a focus on how it was conceived as a survey of major changes in the Bohemian church. Secondly, it discusses the text of the Historia as an expression of a specific Brethren confessional identity and collective memory. It shows how this work uses labels for different non-Catholic religious groups in Bohemia and how these categories can be interpreted as elements of a specific discourse of collective identity. Thirdly, the paper focuses on the Historia in the context of the period’s Protestant martyrologies and especially discusses its relationship with the seventh edition of John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments (1631/1632). These three analytical approaches have enabled not only the specification of the multiple functions of the Historia Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohemicae as a historiographic text but also an assessment of the textual strategies its authors used to navigate their text between the genres of history and martyrology and to express the complex issue of the confessional identity of the exiled minority religious group in the circumstances of the Thirty Years’ War. The results of this analysis contribute to the growing body of specialized literature on early modern practices in historical writing, more specifically on the historical discourses produced by confessional historiography.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-11795S" target="_blank" >GA20-11795S: Historiam videre. Testimony, Experience and the Empirical Evidence in the Early Modern Historiography of the Bohemian Lands</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History

ISSN

0003-9381

e-ISSN

2198-0489

Volume of the periodical

114

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

265-289

UT code for WoS article

001110167100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85178206143