Marina Wagnerová / Boris Blahak (Hrsg.)Hussitismus und Grenze / Husitství a hranice

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On July 6th 1415 the Czech church reformer Jan Hus was burnt at the stake for heresy at the Council of Constance. This event had a major impact on the further political and religious development of the Czech territories and has continued to shape the cultural memory of Czech society up to the present. Hus‘s personality and the consequences of his execution have, however, left traces in German history as well, for instance in the doctrines of Luther or in historical relics of the Bavarian-Bohemian border area which became one of the battlegrounds of the Hussite Wars. Thus, the time of Hus, his successors and his legacy have attracted the attention of various scientific disciplines on both sides of the Czech-German border until today. Against this background this volume presents issues currently raised by the topic Hus and Hussitism in the fields of archaeology, history, religious sciences, linguistics, literature, cultural and media studies. At the same time, the subject is expanded by the aspect of border allowing different interpretations in a Hus-related context: border as a political-administrative condition, but apart from that also as a cultural, linguistic, intellectual or confessional demarcation line, limiting and separating on the one hand, while on the other hand offering a challenge to cross borders and encourage encounters. This book can be seen as a contribution to overcome these boundaries, also, among other things, by its bilingual (Czech-German) text rendition.