K dějinám společenských proměn a náboženského konfliktu 14.–16. století

The collective monograph in honour of Blanka Zilynská offers a multifaceted perspective on the transformations of Bohemian society in the late Middle Ages. The contributors examine the tensions between royal and ecclesiastical power, questions of political legitimacy, and the politico-religious conflicts within the lands of the Bohemian Crown. Attention is also devoted to noble families and their personal, economic, and memorial strategies, as well as to the urban milieu.

The volume further addresses the development of the parish network and pastoral administration, as well as intellectual horizons—university learning, theological and legal thought, manuscript and print culture, and religious pluralism and the conflicts arising from it.

Editors:
Kajetán Holeček – David Trojan

Publisher: Karolinum
Language: Czech
Place: Praha
Year: 2026
Pages: 454
ISBN: 978-80-246-6333-3

Buy: 560 CZK

The monograph focuses on the prominent writer and cleric Martin Lupáč of Újezd († 1468), who played a key role in the history of Czech Utraquism. The book analyzes his literary work, ideological positions, and historical reflections, particularly in relation to the Basel Compacts, which he helped to negotiate and to which he returned throughout the rest of his life.

Images of the European Middle Ages today are shaped by a wide range of mutually interacting disciplines: history, archaeology, art history, philology, theology, and philosophy. The encounter of different fields and evolving methodological approaches invites a reappraisal of traditional and seemingly closed topics. It is precisely in this direction that the series Středověk (The Middle Ages) proceeds, offering both scholarly monographs and thematic volumes, as well as original sources and their translations. Particular emphasis is placed on making medieval texts accessible, providing commentary on them, and presenting the various ways in which their meanings may be understood.

Author: Adam Pálka
Publisher: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny
Language: Czech
Place of publication: Prague
Year of publication: 2026
Number of pages: 332
ISBN: 978-80-7422-882-7

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This collective monograph has three objectives: to clarify the form of paganism‘s survival in the Christian society of the Czech and Polish kingdoms in the Middle Ages; to examine the coexistence of paganism and Christianity in Bohemia and Poland between the 11th and 15th centuries; to shed new light on the processes of external and internal Christianization, which significantly shaped late medieval piety. It seems clear that significant and in many ways unique religious processes took place in medieval Central Europe, conditioned by the need to cope with paganism and the delayed adoption of Western European models of church administration and religious life. In the 15th century, however, Christianized society in the Bohemian and Polish kingdoms began to ask questions that went beyond the intellectual horizons of Western Europe. In the Czech milieu, this process resulted in the Hussite Reformation, a reformation before the Reformation, while in the Polish milieu it gave rise to the concept of unlimited religious tolerance towards pagans derived from natural law and embodied om the, doctrine of ius gentium, as well as to the development of ideas about the uniqueness of Polish Christianity as a bulwark against heresy (Hussite) and Islam.

Editors:
Martin Nodl – Krzystof Bracha
Publisher: Sandstein kultur
Language: angličtina
Place: Dresden
Year: 2026
Pages: 272
ISBN: 978-3-95498-913-3

Buy: 38 €