Murder by Night, Fornicate by Day. Radical Sects and Negotiating the Eucharist Heresy in Hussite Bohemia
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004734890_011" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004734890_011</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004734890_011" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004734890_011</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Murder by Night, Fornicate by Day. Radical Sects and Negotiating the Eucharist Heresy in Hussite Bohemia
Original language description
The study explores the complex interplay of unity, conflict, and heresiological discourse within the Hussite movement, focusing on the Eucharist as both its central tenet and its most divisive issue. Drawing on theological writings, chronicles, and polemical texts, it examines how radical Táborite thinkers such as Mikuláš Biskupec of Pelhřimov and Martin Húska constructed a vision of a chosen apocalyptic community, while simultaneously confronting internal fragmentation over the doctrine of Christ’s presence in the sacrament. The article shows that the Eucharistic controversy not only defined boundaries between Catholics and Hussites but also generated fierce disputes among Hussite factions themselves, ranging from moderate Utraquists to chiliastic radicals. It highlights how accusations of doctrinal error became inseparably intertwined with charges of social deviance, sexual immorality, and violence, as polemicists on both sides mobilised long-standing heresiological stereotypes. By analysing these strategies of denunciation, the study demonstrates how narratives of perversion and sacrilege were employed to enforce orthodoxy within Hussitism and to demonise dissenters, eventually shaping the image of Hussite radicalism in later Catholic historiography. Ultimately, it argues that the Eucharist functioned as both the symbol of reformist identity and the trigger of fratricidal conflict, revealing the fragile balance between radical innovation and the drive to preserve communal cohesion in late medieval Bohemia.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-28415X" target="_blank" >GX19-28415X: From Performativity to Institutionalization: Handling Conflict in the Late Middle Ages (Strategies, Agents, Communication)</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Radical Religious Communities. Internal Dynamism and Social Significance (14th–16th centuries)
ISBN
978-90-04-73488-3
Number of pages of the result
36
Pages from-to
213-248
Number of pages of the book
329
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS chapter
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