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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808385003321

Autore

Thomas Alfred <1958->

Titolo

Anne's Bohemia : Czech literature and society, 1310-1420 / / Alfred Thomas ; foreword by David Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1998

ISBN

0-8166-8867-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 194 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 13

Disciplina

891.8/609001

891.8609002

Soggetti

Czech literature - Social aspects

Czech literature - To 1500 - History and criticism

Literature and society - Czech Republic - History

Bohemia (Czech Republic) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; A Note on the Use of Czech Proper Names; Introduction: Anne's Bohemia: Toward a Comparative Study of Medieval Czech Literature; 1. Prologue: Literature in Old Church Slavonic, Latin, and Czech before 1310; 2. A Literature of Their Own: Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Bohemia; 3. The War of the Bohemian Maidens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Language in The Dalimil Chronicle; 4. Alien Bodies: Exclusion, Obscenity, and Social Control in The Ointment Seller; 5. A Bohemian Imitatio Christi: The Legend of Saint Procopius

6. The Radiant Rose: Female Sanctity and Dominican Piety in the Czech Life of Saint Catherine; 7. Bohemian Knights: Reflections of Social Reality in the Czech Epic and Verse Romances; 8. From Courtier to Rebel: Ideological Ambivalence in Smil Flaška's The New Council; 9. Writing and the Female Body: The Weaver, The Wycliffite Woman, and The Dispute between Prague and Kutná Hora; 10. Epilogue: Continuity and Change in Fifteenth-Century Czech Literature; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Considers the development of Czech literature and society from the election of Count John of Luxembourg as king of Bohemia in 1310 to



the year 1420, when the papacy declared a Catholic crusade against the Hussite reformers. This period is of particular relevance to the study of medieval England because of the marriage of Richard II to Anne of Bohemia, the figure around whom this book is focused.