BOOK: Michael VAN DUSSEN & Pavel SOUKUP, A Companion to the Hussites (Leiden: Brill, 2019). ISBN: 978-90-04-39786-6, pp. 454, €199.00

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Hussites, as the Bohemian reformists have come to be called, became one of the most vocal and influential reform movements of the late Middle Ages, with significance for the reformations of the sixteenth century and later. They represented an interchange between “town and gown” that was largely unprecedented in medieval Europe. Scholarship on the Hussites has a long and distinguished tradition, and current studies must continually contend with a historiography that is implicated in the nationalism, confessionalism, and politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume gives students and scholars a clear sense of the historiography and current trends in Hussite studies, as well as concise statements on major emphases in Hussite theology, ecclesiology, philosophy, and religious practice. 

Contributors are: Eliška Baťová, Pavlína Cermanová, Dušan Coufal, Phillip Haberkern, Ota Halama, David Holeton, Stephen Lahey, Jindřich Marek, Pavel Kolář, Olivier Marin, Petra Mutlová, Pavlína Rychterová, Pavel Soukup, Michael Van Dussen, and Blanka Zilynská.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Michael Van Dussen is Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at McGill University. He has published articles and volumes on late-medieval religious controversy and manuscript studies, including From England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2012). 

Pavel Soukup is researcher at the Centre for Medieval Studies (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) in Prague. He has published on heresy, preaching and religious warfare in fifteenth-century Central Europe, including a monograph of Jan Hus (Stuttgart, 2014).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements 

Conventions on the Use of Proper Names 

English Equivalents of Czech Names 

Notes on Contributors 

Introduction: Hussite Histories - Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup 

Part 1: Influences

The Early Bohemian Reform - Olivier Marin 

Wyclif in Bohemia - Stephen E. Lahey 

Part 2: Major Figures

Major Hussite Theologians before the Compactata - Petra Mutlová 

Major Figures of Later Hussitism (1437–1471) - Jindřich Marek 

Part 3: Religious Politics

The Apocalyptic Background of Hussite Radicalism - Pavlína Cermanová 

The Utraquist Church after the Compactata - Blanka Zilynská 

Part 4: Theology and Religious Practice

Key Issues in Hussite Theology - Dušan Coufal 

Preaching, the Vernacular, and the Laity - Pavlína Rychterová 

Liturgy, Sacramental Theology, and Music - David R. Holeton, Pavel Kolář and Eliška Baťová 

Part 5: Later Developments

The Unity of Brethren (1458–1496) - Ota Halama 

The Bohemian Reformation and “The” Reformation: Hussites and Protestants in Early Modern Europe - Phillip Haberkern 

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