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

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Terminus

ISSN

2082-0984

e-ISSN

2084-3844

Svazek periodika

27

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

75

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

231-249

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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