A Companion to Jan Hus

František Šmahel (Ph.D.1965, DrSc. 1990) is Professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His recent publications on intellectual history, political history and Czech Hussite movement include Hussitische Revolution I-III (2002), The Charles University in the Middle Ages (2007) and the edition (with G. Silagi) of Magistri Hieronymi de Praga Quaestiones, polemica, epistulae (2010). Ota Pavlíček (Ph.D., Th.D. 2014) wrote his doctoral thesis on the thought of Jerome of Prague at the University of Paris Sorbonne and at the Charles University in Prague. He works as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

List of Contributors

Introduction

The Chronology of the Life and Work of Jan Hus
Ota Pavlíček
The Spiritual Background of the Czech Reformation
Vilém Herold (†)
Jan Hus as a Preacher
Pavel Soukup
The Sentences Commentary of Jan Hus
Stephen E. Lahey
The Vernacular Theology of Jan Hus
Pavlína Rychterová
The National Idea, Secular Power and Social Issues in the Political Theology of Jan Hus
František Šmahel
The causa Hus in Constance : disputatio aut inquisitio
Sebastián Provvidente
Second Life of Jan Hus. Liturgy, Commemoration & Music
David Holeton & Hana Vlhová-Wörner
Iconography of Jan Hus
Milena Bartlová
The History of the Interpretation of Jan Hus
Zdeněk V. David
Instead of Conclusion: A View into Hus’s Literary Workshop
František Šmahel

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General Index