'Omnis potestas a deo est' The sacred aspects of the legitimacy of the ruler in the narrative sources from high medieval Bohemia

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

'Omnis potestas a deo est' The sacred aspects of the legitimacy of the ruler in the narrative sources from high medieval Bohemia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The contribution deals with the religious legitimation of the power of a sovereign in medieval Bohemia before the Hussite epoch. On the basis of narrative sources ? legends, chronicles, and texts seeking to instill moral behavior ? the author demonstrates that political thought in Bohemia was in touch with contemporary West European ideas about the religious nature of the office of a ruler. In this context, he proves that the concept of rex imago Christi (as in the legend of Christian) gradual- ly became rex imago Dei (as in the Kosmas chronicle), and analyzes how this notion further developed at the courts of the last Přemyslids and those of the Luxembourg dynasty in the high and late middle ages. The author demonstrates that the religious aspect of a medieval ruler?s power was more than a mere legitimatizing element. It also restricted attempts on the part of a sovereign to use his power in a despotic way. This restricting function was based on the notions of a just society and of the role its sovereign ought to play, rooted in Christian morals and ethics.

Název v anglickém jazyce

'Omnis potestas a deo est' The sacred aspects of the legitimacy of the ruler in the narrative sources from high medieval Bohemia

Popis výsledku anglicky

The contribution deals with the religious legitimation of the power of a sovereign in medieval Bohemia before the Hussite epoch. On the basis of narrative sources ? legends, chronicles, and texts seeking to instill moral behavior ? the author demonstrates that political thought in Bohemia was in touch with contemporary West European ideas about the religious nature of the office of a ruler. In this context, he proves that the concept of rex imago Christi (as in the legend of Christian) gradual- ly became rex imago Dei (as in the Kosmas chronicle), and analyzes how this notion further developed at the courts of the last Přemyslids and those of the Luxembourg dynasty in the high and late middle ages. The author demonstrates that the religious aspect of a medieval ruler?s power was more than a mere legitimatizing element. It also restricted attempts on the part of a sovereign to use his power in a despotic way. This restricting function was based on the notions of a just society and of the role its sovereign ought to play, rooted in Christian morals and ethics.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AB - Dějiny

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Bohemia. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der böhmischen Länder

ISSN

0523-8587

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

56

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

62-87

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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